Production Scheduling – Senior Product Manager, R&D

o9 Solutions, Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

o9 Solutions, Inc. is hiring a Senior Manager - Production Scheduling Solver in Bangalore. You will bridge customers, engineering, UX, QA and other teams to evolve production scheduling capabilities. You will shape product vision, prioritize features and ensure solutions meet business goals.

The role requires deep hands-on experience with production scheduling, scheduling algorithms, and SaaS/cloud environments. You will train teams, support RFPs, and act as SME across departments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years hardcore production scheduling experience; total 10+ years.
• Expertise in Campaign Scheduling, Scheduling Heuristics, and Genetic Algorithms.
• Experience implementing scheduling solutions for custom models.
• Strong understanding of scheduling algorithms, their applications, and techniques/usage.

Responsibilities

• Understand market trends and the product to shape vision and prioritize features.
• Act as domain expert and guide development with best practices.
• Create functional specs, use cases, mocks for the team to start.
• Explain requirements to the development team and ensure business objectives are met.
• Validate new features and measure impact on existing functionality.
• Demonstrate features to stakeholders and gather feedback.
• Collaborate with UX to ensure good user experience.
• Be the Go-to functional SME for QA and support teams.
• Interface with customers, sales, consulting and development teams.

Skills

Production scheduling

Campaign scheduling

Scheduling heuristics

Genetic algorithms

Cloud / SaaS experience

Stakeholder communication

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s in Engineering or MBA

Job description

Transforming the Future of Enterprise PlanningAt o9, our mission is to be the Most Value-Creating Platform for enterprises by transforming decision-making through our AI-first approach. By integrating siloed planning capabilities and capturing millions—even billions—in value leakage, we help businesses plan smarter and faster.This not only enhances operational efficiency but also reduces waste, leading to better outcomes for both businesses and the planet. Global leaders like Google, PepsiCo, Walmart, T-Mobile, AB InBev, and Starbucks trust o9 to optimize their supply chains.

Role: PM - Production Scheduling, R&DLocation: Bangalore, Hybrid

About the role

As a Senior Manager - Production Scheduling Solver, you’ll play a key role in shaping and evolving o9’s production scheduling capabilities. You’ll act as the bridge between customers, engineering, UX, QA, and other stakeholders, ensuring our solutions solve real business challenges in the most efficient way.

What you’ll do for us…

• Understand the market trends, competitive landscape carefully and with the in-depth understanding of our existing product, chalk out the product vision and prioritize the new features and requirements
• Act as a domain expert and advocate/implements the best practices with the development team
• Understand the individual customer requirements carefully and create the Functional specifications, Use cases, mock-ups and other documents required for the development team to get going.
• Explain functional requirements to the development team
• Make sure that the solution that is designed and developed effectively meets the business objectives of the end users
• Validate/test the newly developed features and their impact on existing features.
• Demonstrate these new features to key stakeholders and get their feedback
• Work with UX team to create a pleasant user experience
• Act as the functional ‘Go-to’ person for the QA team
• Act as the hub of the stakeholders for the application, interfacing with the customers, sales, consulting and development teams
• Provide product training to internal and external departments
• Act as an SME and reviews the training material and product documentation
• Help the sales and pre‑sales teams to support RFPs, RFQs, ongoing implementations and customer demos (preparation / delivery)
• As SME, act as the first respondent for any functional queries / issues from internal / external teams
• Design and evaluate production scheduling algorithms, understand their usage, trade‑offs, and performance implications to ensure robust scheduling solutions.
• Leverage deep hands‑on experience in production scheduling to propose, improve, and validate innovative scheduling techniques

What you’ll have…

• Experience: 8+ years of hardcore production scheduling experience. Overall 10+ Years experience
• Expertise in Campaign Scheduling, Scheduling Heuristics, and Genetic Algorithms
• Experience implementing scheduling solutions for custom models
• Strong understanding of scheduling algorithms, their applications, and techniques/usage (Package /products)
• Experience working within Cloud, SaaS, any enterprise supply planning solutions will be an added advantage

Education

Full Time Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Engineering or master’s in business administration

Skills

• Excellent understanding of the Supply chain planning and scheduling domain
• Excellent English language skills, both verbal and written

Characteristics

• A good leader who can communicate the project plans and status of projects effectively
• A self‑motivated person who can work calmly under pressure and meet deadlines
• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical and influencing skills, with proven ability to take initiatives

What we’ll do for you:

• Flat organization: With a very strong entrepreneurial culture (and no corporate politics).
• Great people and unlimited fun at work.
• Possibility to really make a difference in a scale‑up environment.
• Support network: Work with a team you can learn from every day.
• Diversity: We pride ourselves on our international working environment.
• DavOs Insight (Turning VUCA into value with Neuro-Symbolic AI): https://l1nk.dev/ngQoe
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