About the Role
Copia Automation is seeking a Staff Product Manager to lead its AI vertical. This role involves translating a fast-moving vision into customer-loved products, embracing ambiguity, and driving outcomes in the industrial automation space. The ideal candidate has shipped AI products, possesses strong product instincts for data, and is comfortable with both go-to-market strategies and backlog management.
Responsibilities
- Own Copia Copilot, including code documentation, legacy code interpretation, logic conversion, and outputs from Copia repos and device backups.
- Develop a strategic point of view on AI product possibilities leveraging Copia's unique context.
- Set the AI roadmap, progressing from code intelligence to incident response, autonomous agents, and OT cyber resilience.
- Write product specifications and collaborate daily with the AI engineering team.
- Oversee monetization and go-to-market strategies for new AI products and features, including pricing, packaging, and PLG integration.
- Build technical credibility with enterprise buyers, OT security advisors, and early design partners.
- Partner with the CEO and Sales on the strategic narrative for AI within the Copia story.
- Distill a fast-moving vision into actionable, shippable products.
Requirements
- A track record of shipping AI products to real customers, with at least one product taken from zero to revenue.
- Strong instincts for prioritization and the ability to solve ambiguous problems.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of explaining technical details to diverse audiences.
- Comfort operating in an early-stage, ambiguous environment with new product lines and no established playbook.
- Eagerness to learn and engage with complex domains like industrial automation.
Skills
- AI product management
- Product strategy
- Roadmap development
- Go-to-market strategy
- Pricing and packaging
- Product-led growth (PLG)
- Technical sales enablement
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Agile methodologies
- Data analysis
- Customer interaction
- Problem-solving
- Communication
Location
- NYC HQ
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Staff level
- Principal-level
Salary/Compensations
- $205,000 - $230,000
- Competitive base salary commensurate with experience and location
Benefits
- Meaningful equity in an early-stage, venture-backed company
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Unlimited PTO and company holidays
- 401(k) plan
- Commuter benefits
- In-office lunches
- Relocation assistance for qualifying candidates
About the Company
- Copia Automation provides best-in-class disaster and recovery technology for industrial automation.
- Our product brings modern developer tools to the OT space through our novel Git-based source control for automation professionals, with multiple delivery methods including self-hosted and fully hosted options.
- We are a well-funded startup with a growing list of happy customers throughout the industrial space.
- As a Copia employee, you'll solve challenging, unique, and meaningful problems alongside passionate coworkers, while we change the way everything gets built.
- Manufacturing is powered by industrial automation - computerized systems and robotics running on PLCs. This ecosystem uses a unique graphical language that doesn't work with typical developer tools like GitLab or GitHub. Instead, automation professionals rely on physical storage devices, incompatible tools, and incomplete solutions. When minutes of downtime can cost tens of thousands of dollars, better development tools are urgently needed.
- Copia has more context on what's happening inside customer controls environments than anyone else in this market. That context is why Copia can build AI products our competitors can’t replicate. This role decides what those products are.
- It's a principal-level role because the scope is designing the AI vision, making it something customers pay for, and figuring out how Copia takes a new product line to market. You'll work through collaboration, experimentation, and ownership - partnering daily with the CEO, whose vision is strong and evolving fast, and turning it into products that ship.
Equal Opportunity
- Copia is an equal opportunity employer.
- We are committed to building a diverse team and an inclusive culture, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
