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We’re reinventing how supply chain infrastructure works in America with carrier agnostic truck terminals. As a vertically integrated real estate, operations, and technology company, we acquire and operate mission-critical real estate across the country to serve the largest logistics providers in the world. Backed by $1B from Greenpoint Partners, we’re scaling and building the most valuable logistics network in the country.\nWe thrive on accountability, integrity, and a shared drive to raise the bar. If you’re excited to reshape the industry alongside a high-performance team with a championship mindset that executes relentlessly, welcome aboard.\nRole Summary:\nOur Gate Automation platform runs at the gates of some of the largest carriers and shippers in the country. As a Principal Product Manager, you will own major parts of that roadmap and act as a thinking partner on product architecture: how the pieces fit together as a suite, what the platform needs underneath, and what we build next.\nThe work spans edge hardware, computer vision, AI, and real-world operations. You will partner with engineering, ML, design, sales, implementation, and customers to automate truck yards, and you will prove the value in dollars a carrier's CFO will sign off on.\nPriorities shift with customer contracts, pilots, and what we learn in the field. You will do well here if you can take an ambiguous problem, frame it, and drive a team to a shipped answer without waiting for someone to hand you requirements.\nKey Responsibilities:\nProduct Strategy & Architecture\nOwn product architecture across the suite: how gate automation, yard tracking, the customer portal, and integrations share data, workflows, and platform components.\n\nLead discovery through customer interviews, on-site observation at terminals, and rapid prototyping.\n\nTurn customer problems into crisp definitions of value, scope, and success criteria, with a dollar ROI attached.\n\nSequence the roadmap so most effort turns into revenue within the next few quarters while the platform keeps moving forward.\n\nTechnical Depth\nWork with engineering and ML on architecture, APIs, data flows, and integration patterns.\n\nWrite specs, acceptance criteria, and test plans with real technical rigor.\n\nUnderstand edge compute (NVIDIA Jetson), camera systems, OCR and vision pipelines, multi-sensor workflows, and voice and LLM agents.\n\nHold the bar on reliability, accuracy, and performance in settings where a missed read stops a truck.\n\nUX & Design\nOwn the experience for drivers, guards, yard operators, and enterprise customers, from kiosk screens to the customer portal.\n\nProduce annotated wireframes, flows, and user stories. Prototype in code or with AI tools when that beats a mockup.\n\nPartner with product designers and engineers on a shared design system.\n\nKeep complex operational workflows simple to use.\n\nCross-Functional Alignment\nCoordinate across engineering, systems engineering, implementation, field operations, BI and data, sales, and support.\n\nTranslate contract requirements and customer commitments into internal plans, and push back when a commitment does not add up.\n\nRun clean handoffs between product, deployment, and support.\n\nServe as product lead in customer conversations with enterprise carriers and shippers.\n\nExecution & Delivery\nRun roadmap planning and sprint prioritization with engineering leads.\n\nManage trade-offs across cost, timeline, accuracy, and scope.\n\nSet and report on KPIs for automation rate, detection accuracy, throughput, and uptime.\n\nTrack rollout results and drive iteration.\n\nLeadership\nAct as a thought partner to the CTO on strategy, sequencing, and prioritization.\n\nWrite documents people read and act on: PR/FAQs, specs, memos.\n\nHelp build the PM practice at Outpost, including how we use AI across the product workflow.\n\nEmbody Outpost's Values and Leadership Principles.\n\nQualifications:\n8+ years of product management, including products you took from 0 to 1 and on to scale, and platform-level products.\n\nProduct architecture experience: you have defined how multiple products share a platform and made the calls that kept it coherent.\n\nStrong technical fluency in APIs, data systems, and system design. You can go deep on architecture and ML workflows with engineers.\n\nStrong UX product thinking, with shipped user flows that work for non-technical users.\n\nExperience in environments where hardware, software, and operations intersect.\n\nA record of owning ambiguous problems end to end with little direction.\n\nClear writing, crisp documents, and strong meeting facilitation.\n\nDaily use of AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, or similar) in your product work: research, specs, prototypes, analysis.\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\nVision systems, edge computing, or industrial and IoT products.\n\nFreight, logistics, or transportation.\n\nEnterprise integrations (SFTP, REST APIs, SSO, EDI, TMS and YMS, ELD systems).\n\nVoice AI or LLM agent products.\n\nComfort on-site around trucks, gates, and industrial yards.\n\nSuccess in 12 Months Looks Like:\nYou own the roadmap for a major part of the Outpost product suite, and the team trusts your calls.\n\nA documented product architecture that engineering builds against.\n\nShorter cycle time from customer feedback to spec to deployment.\n\nAutomation rates at deployed sites climbing, measured and reported.\n\nStrong working relationships with engineering, implementation, sales, and operations.\n\nClean division of ownership with the other PM, with the whole suite covered.\n\nBenefits:\nComprehensive Benefits Package including Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance\n\n401(k) Retirement Plan Matching\n\n18 Paid Holidays\n\nUnlimited PTO\n\nFriday Team Lunches\n\nBase salary range: $210,000 - $250,000 annually, plus equity, depending on experience and qualifications.\n\nOutpost is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination of Any Kind.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5931,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Retirement plans","Unlimited PTO","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Real Estate","Transportation & Logistics","Logistics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-01T02:35:19Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":71,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.793,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":13,"expected_fill_days":23,"reasons":["conf:2","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-14T06:34:16Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":250000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/outpost-principal-product-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/outpost-principal-product-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-14T06:36:51Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":7847,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-15T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":456083},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=456083"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Foutpost-principal-product-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Foutpost-principal-product-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Foutpost-principal-product-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/outpost-principal-product-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Foutpost-principal-product-manager"}]}