Oxalis Solutions is a consulting and technology partner specializing in high-stakes and complex environments. They are seeking an Associate Product Manager to bridge the gap between clients and the engineering team, focusing on translating customer needs into actionable product requirements and ensuring alignment across teams.
Responsibilities
- Observe real-world usage through demos, pilots, on-site interactions, and basic operational metrics; turn findings into prioritized product requirements
- Ask precise questions, interpret intent into actionable plans, and help teams make pragmatic decisions early in the process
- Translate customer problems into clear, testable requirements and concise user stories that guide engineering work
- Partner with engineering to clarify flows across systems and user interactions; identify potential failure modes early and recommend the best viable path forward
- Operate with concise feedback cycles: plan, ship, learn, iterate
- Document decisions, acceptance criteria, and edge cases so the team stays aligned and can move quickly
- Maintain an organized workflow that gives stakeholders an accurate view of scope, status, dependencies, and trade-offs
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field, or equivalent work experience
- Ability to make sense of complex customer needs and translate them into right‑sized, testable work for engineering teams
- Prior exposure to customer discovery interviews, usability testing, pilot cycles, or simple instrumentation that helps validate direction
- Awareness of operational realities in manufacturing or industrial settings, including reliability, safety, change control, and supplier constraints
- Learn and internalize the boundaries of what our products and teams can deliver, shaping customer goals into buildable scopes aligned with our capabilities
- Experience coordinating cross‑functional work in software projects that interact with hardware‑heavy client systems
- Evidence of turning complicated problems into shipped outcomes that deliver value
- Familiarity with iterative delivery and core product artifacts such as backlogs, acceptance criteria, and demos
- Ability to visualize flows with lightweight diagrams when words are not enough
- Clear, structured writing that reduces ambiguity and accelerates decisions
Company Overview
- Public Sector. Maritime. Healthcare. Aerospace. Defense. If it’s high-stakes, high-security, or highly complex—Oxalis is built for it. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://oxalis.io.