Senior Product Manager - Production Scheduling

Transforming the Future of Enterprise Planning

At o9, our mission is to be the Most Value-Creating Platform for enterprises by transforming decision-making through our AI-first approach. By integrating siloed planning capabilities and capturing millions—even billions—in value leakage, we help businesses plan smarter and faster.

This not only enhances operational efficiency but also reduces waste, leading to better outcomes for both businesses and the planet. Global leaders like Google, PepsiCo, Walmart, T-Mobile, AB InBev, and Starbucks trust o9 to optimize their supply chains.

Role: Product Manager - Production Scheduling, R&D

Location: Bangalore, Hybrid

About the role...

As a Product Manager – Production Scheduling Solver , you’ll play a key role in shaping and evolving o9’s production scheduling capabilities. You’ll act as the bridge between customers, engineering, UX, QA, and other stakeholders, ensuring our solutions solve real business challenges in the most efficient way.

What you’ll do for us…

Understand the market trends, competitive landscape carefully and with the in-depth understanding of our existing product, chalk out the product vision and prioritize the new features and requirements

Act as a domain expert and advocate/implements the best practices with the development team

Understand the individual customer requirements carefully and create the Functional specifications, Use cases, mock-ups and other documents required for the development team to get going. Explain functional requirements to the development team

Make sure that the solution that is designed and developed effectively meets the business objectives of the end users

Validate/test the newly developed features and their impact on existing features. Demonstrate these new features to key stakeholders and get their feedback

Work with UX team to create a pleasant user experience

Act as the functional ‘Go-to’ person for the QA team

Act as the hub of the stakeholders for the application, interfacing with the customers, sales, consulting and development teams

Provide product training to internal and external departments

Act as an SME and reviews the training material and product documentation

Help the sales and pre-sales teams to support RFPs, RFQs, ongoing implementations and customer demos (preparation / delivery)

As SME, act as the first respondent for any functional queries / issues from internal /external teams

Design and evaluate production scheduling algorithms, understand their usage, trade-offs, and performance implications to ensure robust scheduling solutions.

Leverage deep hands-on experience in production scheduling to propose, improve, and validate innovative scheduling techniques

What you’ll have...

Experience : 8+ years of hardcore production scheduling experience . Overall experience 10+ Years

Expertise in Campaign Scheduling, Scheduling Heuristics, Genetic Algorithm

Experience implementing scheduling solutions for custom models

Strong understanding of scheduling algorithms, their applications , and techniques/usage (Package /products)

Experience working within Cloud, SaaS, any enterprise supply planning solutions will be an added advantage

Education: Full Time Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Engineering or master’s in business administration

Skills: Excellent understanding of the Supply chain planning and scheduling domain

Excellent English language skills, both verbal and written.

Characteristics: A good leader who can communicate the project plans and status of projects effectively

A self-motivated person who can work calmly under pressure and meet deadlines

Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical and influencing skills, with proven ability to take initiatives

What we’ll do for you: Flat organization: With a very strong entrepreneurial culture (and no corporate politics).

Great people and unlimited fun at work.

Possibility to really make a difference in a scale-up environment.

Support network: Work with a team you can learn from every day.

Diversity: We pride ourselves on our international working environment.

DavOs Insight (Turning VUCA into value with Neuro-Symbolic AI): https://l1nk.dev/ngQoe

Work-Life Balance: https://youtu.be/IHSZeUPATBA?feature=shared

Feel part of A team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6B2lEJl2oI

How the process works...

Setup & Create your profile in Workday to track the status - Link to apply . If already done, kindly ignore!

Respond with your interest to us.

We’ll contact you either via video call or phone call - whatever you prefer, with the further schedule status.

Online Assessment - Domain specific

During the interview phase, you will meet with the technical panel for 60 minutes. We will contact you after the interview to let you know if we’d like to progress your application.

There will be 2 rounds of technical discussion followed by a Managerial round.

We will let you know if you’re the successful candidate.

Good luck!

More about us…

At o9, transparency and open communication are at the core of our culture. Collaboration thrives across all levels—hierarchy, distance, or function never limit innovation or teamwork. Beyond work, we encourage volunteering opportunities, social impact initiatives, and diverse cultural celebrations.

With a $3.7 billion valuation and a global presence across Dallas, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Madrid, London, Paris, Tokyo, Seoul, and Munich, o9 is among the fastest-growing technology companies in the world. Through our aim10x vision, we are committed to AI-powered management, driving 10x improvements in enterprise decision-making. Our Enterprise Knowledge Graph enables businesses to anticipate risks, adapt to market shifts, and gain real-time visibility. By automating millions of decisions and reducing manual interventions by up to 90%, we empower enterprises to drive profitable growth, reduce inefficiencies, and create lasting value.

o9 is an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, ensuring a fair and unbiased hiring process. Join us as we continue our growth journey!