Principal Product Manager, Platform

Kinaxis Inc.; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 101,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible vacation

Flexible work options

Well-being programs

Virtual fitness classes

Mentorship & training

Recognition & referrals

Hackathons

Job summary

Kinaxis seeks a Principal Product Manager to shape Maestro's evolution into a composable, extensible platform. This senior IC owns strategy and execution for platform capabilities, collaborating with engineering, data, cloud service and GTM teams to translate complex customer needs into scalable products.

The role requires a systems thinker who can set direction, manage trade-offs, lead discovery, drive delivery and define measurable adoption without direct authority.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience leading enterprise SaaS or platform products.
• Hands-on experience with AI tooling or AI-enabled systems (generative AI, agents, orchestration).
• Technical fluency with APIs, SDKs and platform services; ability to influence senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own vision, strategy, roadmap and measurable outcomes for major Maestro platform areas.
• Define primitives, APIs, SDKs, services and extension patterns for internal teams, customers and partners.
• Drive agentic platform approach including agent development and runtime needs.
• Partner with Data Fabric teams to shape reusable data products and services.
• Translate strategy into executable plans and success criteria; lead customer discovery and requirements.
• Create a coherent platform experience across services, tooling and data capabilities.
• Engage enterprise customers to validate needs and drive adoption across product areas.

Skills

Product management

Enterprise SaaS

Platform

AI tooling

APIs & SDKs

Communication

Stakeholder influence

Cloud products

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

APIs

SDKs

Job description

About Kinaxis

Are you looking to join an innovative, market-leading company where you can truly elevate your career? At Kinaxis we are serious about culture, we are serious about technology, we are serious about customers, and we are serious about not taking ourselves too seriously. If you are looking to be part of an incredible growth story, then we might just be the place for you!

In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, 6 global office and a best-in-class HQ in Ottawa, Canada. As winners of several Top Employer awards globally, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.

Kinaxis is a global leader in modern supply chain orchestration, powering complex global supply chains, and supporting the people who manage them. Our powerful, AI infused platform provides full transparency and visibility across end-to-end supply chains, enabling our customers to make faster, better decisions. We are trusted by renowned global brands to provide the agility and predictability needed to navigate today’s volatility and disruption. With more than 40,000 users in over 100 countries, we are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.

Location

Ottawa and Toronto, Canada- Hybrid

Other Canadian locations - Remote

About the role

• The Principal Product Manager, Platform will help shape Maestro’s evolution into a composable, extensible, and agentic platform. This senior individual contributor owns strategy and execution for critical platform capabilities and works closely with engineering, data, cloud service and GTM teams to turn complex customer and developer needs into scalable products.
• The role requires a systems thinker and hands-on product leader who can set direction, make investment trade-offs, lead discovery, drive delivery, and establish measurable adoption and customer outcomes without direct authority.

Vacancy Status

• This is an existing job vacancy

What you will do

• Own the vision, strategy, roadmap, and measurable outcomes for major areas of the Maestro platform, from discovery through launch, adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Define the platform primitives, APIs, SDKs, services, administration experiences, and extension patterns that enable internal teams, customers, partners, and AI agents to build safely and quickly.
• Drive an agentic platform approach, including agent development and runtime needs.
• Partner closely with Data Fabric teams to shape trusted, reusable data products and services.
• Translate strategy into executable plans: lead customer discovery, define requirements and success criteria, establish a clear plan to solve complex problems.
• Create a coherent platform experience across application services, embedded algorithms, developer tooling, administration, and data capabilities.
• Engage enterprise customers and partners as a trusted product leader; validate needs, guide early adoption, and turn repeated use cases into durable platform capabilities.
• Communicate crisp product narratives and decisions to executives, technical teams, and Go-to- Market stakeholders, and lead alignment across multiple product areas.

What we are looking for

• 8+ years of product management experience, including ownership of complex enterprise SaaS, platform, developer, data, or cloud products.
• Proven record of setting product strategy and personally driving execution across discovery, delivery, launch, and adoption.
• Hands-on experience with AI tooling or AI-enabled systems, such as generative AI, agents, orchestration, model or prompt tooling, evaluations, observability, or AI governance.
• Experience with modern data platforms or data fabric concepts, including data products, semantic layers or ontologies, metadata, lineage, data quality, access controls, and governance.
• Ability to simplify complex systems, define reusable platform capabilities, and balance near‑term delivery with long‑term architecture and product leverage. Technical fluency with APIs, SDKs and common platform services to understand tradeoffs with engineering team.
• Excellent judgment, analytical rigor, and communication skills, with demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead through ambiguity.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Experience

• Building enterprise agent platforms, AI developer tooling, copilots, or workflow automation.
• Working with semantic models, knowledge graphs, ontologies, master data, or federated data access.
• Building platform capabilities for regulated or security-conscious enterprise customers.
• Working with optimization, planning, scheduling, forecasting, or other computation‑intensive systems.
• Operating across AWS, Azure, or GCP and supporting multi‑cloud product requirements.
• Working knowledge of platform economics and business case development.

#Senior; #LI-EM1

Work With Impact: Our platform directly helps companies power the world’s supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every day, when we see store shelves stocked, when medications are available for our loved ones, and so much more.

Work with Fortune 500 Brands: Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain. Some of our customers include Lockheed Martin, Unilever, P&G, ExxonMobil, Cisco and more.

Social Responsibility at Kinaxis: Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee weighs in on hiring practices, talent assessment training materials, and mandatory training on unconscious bias and inclusion fundamentals. Sustainability is key to what we do and we’re committed to a long-term net-zero operations strategy. We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.

People matter at Kinaxis and here are some of the perks and benefits we offer, which may vary by location and employee:

• Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide days off)
• Flexible work options
• Physical and mental well-being programs
• Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
• Mentorship programs, training, and career development
• Recognition programs and referral rewards
• Hackathons

For more information, visit the Kinaxis website at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com.

Kinaxis is committed to ensuring a fair and transparent recruitment process. We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the initial step of the recruitment process to compare submitted resumes against the job description to identify candidates whose education, experience, and skills most closely match the requirements of the role. After the initial screening, all subsequent decisions regarding your application, including final selection, are made by our human recruitment team. AI does not make any final hiring decisions.