Energy & Critical Resources Product Manager — AI & Ops

Avathon; Pleasanton (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health insurance

401(k) plan

PTO & holidays

Learning & development

Job summary

Avathon, based in California, seeks a Product Manager for Energy & Critical Resources to define and shape Physical AI products across oil & gas, utilities, renewables, and mining. You will own strategy for agentic AI, digital twins, predictive/prescriptive AI, and autonomous decisions in asset reliability, production optimization, and grid operations.

You will collaborate with AI scientists, engineers, and frontline teams to translate real-world challenges into scalable product capabilities,

Qualifications

• MBA required from a top-tier university.
• 4+ years of relevant experience in product management, management consulting, energy, mining, industrial technology, operations, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of the operating environment of energy, mining, metals, or other critical resource companies.
• Experience defining and deploying products incorporating AI, machine learning, optimization, or advanced analytics preferred.
• Strong ability to translate complex business problems into clear product requirements.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers and senior business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead next-generation products that apply AI, operational intelligence, optimization, and autonomous decision-making to complex physical operations from concept and validation through launch, adoption, and scale.
• Identify and prioritize high-value opportunities across asset reliability and integrity, predictive maintenance, production and process optimization, field operations, mine-to-mill operations, power generation optimization, grid operations, renewable asset performance, energy management, and operational planning.
• Partner with applied Science, Product and Forward-Deployed Engineering teams to transform agentic AI, predictive and prescriptive models, optimization, digital twins, computer vision, and decision intelligence into repeatable, scalable products for industrial environments.
• Define how Avathon’s computational knowledge graph connects assets, processes, people, operating conditions, maintenance, production, and enterprise data to give AI the context required to reason and make decisions across complex operations.
• Work directly with energy producers, miners, utilities, power generators and distributors, renewable operators, engineers, and frontline operational teams to deeply understand operating constraints, validate product concepts, and identify opportunities for transformational impact.
• Translate complex operational challenges into clear product capabilities, workflows, KPIs, and measurable outcomes such as increased availability, production and throughput; reduced downtime and cost; improved reliability and safety; and greater operational autonomy.
• Partner across Product Engineering, AI Research, Forward Deployed Engineering, Sales, and Marketing to take products from concept to production deployment and convert successful customer solutions into scalable product capabilities.
• Stay at the forefront of Physical AI, industrial autonomy, energy transition, grid modernization, mining technology, and emerging AI capabilities to identify new markets, product opportunities, and areas of differentiation for Avathon.
• Measure product success through customer adoption, operational impact, AI performance, repeatability, and commercial scalability, using insights from live industrial deployments to continuously evolve the portfolio

Skills

Product management

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Enterprise customer experience

Education

MBA from a top-tier university

Job description

Avathon, based in California, seeks a Product Manager for Energy & Critical Resources to define and shape Physical AI products across oil & gas, utilities, renewables, and mining. You will own strategy for agentic AI, digital twins, predictive/prescriptive AI, and autonomous decisions in asset reliability, production optimization, and grid operations.

You will collaborate with AI scientists, engineers, and frontline teams to translate real-world challenges into scalable product capabilities,