Job Description
What we are looking for
We are hiring a Product Manager for SDS2 who combines strong product-management fundamentals with practical understanding of structural steel fabrication, detailing, or manufacturing. This is not intended to be a general-purpose software PM role.
The ideal candidate understands how engineering software fits into real fabrication workflows and has an AI-first mindset, actively looking for ways AI can improve detailing, automation, decision-making, user productivity, and the way we build products.
Industry & Technical Background
- Strong experience with structural steel fabrication, steel detailing, manufacturing, or closely related industrial engineering workflows
- Ability to communicate credibly with detailers, fabricators, engineers, developers, and customers
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, architecture, or a closely related technical field
- Understanding of complex engineering/manufacturing workflows and the ability to translate them into software requirements
Product Management
- Ideally 5+ years of Product Management / Product Ownership experience, preferably with AEC, engineering, manufacturing, or technical B2B software
- Demonstrated ownership of:
- Product vision and roadmap
- Customer discovery and requirements
- Epics and backlog prioritization
- Agile product development
- Product lifecycle
- Market and competitive analysis
- Product launches / GTM
- Product metrics and business outcomes
- Strong project-management capability across distributed, cross-functional teams
- Excellent written, verbal, and customer-facing communication skills
- Comfortable working directly with Engineering, UX, Sales, Support, Marketing, customers, and senior leadership.
- Jira for requirements, epics, backlog, and Agile development
- Basecamp for project/program coordination
- Customer-facing product discovery
- Structural engineering knowledge
- Fabrication shop experience
- BIM / digital fabrication workflows
- APIs, interoperability, or integrations
- Enterprise B2B software experience
- Data-driven product management
AI-First Mindset
We want someone who views AI as a fundamental part of the future of SDS2, not simply another feature.
Look for candidates who:
- Routinely use AI tools in their own work
- Understand practical applications of AI/ML, copilots, agents, automation, or intelligent workflows
- Can identify repetitive or knowledge-intensive detailing tasks that could be automated or augmented
- Can translate AI opportunities into customer problems, workflows, requirements, and measurable outcomes
- Are curious and willing to experiment rather than waiting for established industry solutions
Direct AI product experience is highly desirable but should not outweigh steel-industry/domain knowledge.
Strong Differentiators
Experience with one or more of the following should move a candidate significantly higher in the recruiting funnel:
Steel / Detailing Software
- SDS2
- Tekla Structures
- Advance Steel
- Bocad
- ProSteel
- Other structural steel detailing / fabrication systems
Engineering / Manufacturing Software
- SolidWorks
- Autodesk Inventor
- Creo
- CATIA
- Bentley engineering products
- Other CAD/CAM/CAE, BIM, PLM, or fabrication software
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