Senior Product Manager - Data & AI focus

Nofence is a Norwegian scale up that has built the world’s first virtual fencing solution for livestock. As we aim to revolutionise livestock management at an international scale, we need top-notch competence in our Product team, and we are now looking for a driven Product Manager with experience from data- and AI-heavy products. Elevate your career with us and make a tangible impact at the forefront of innovation in agricultural technology!

Our Product & Engineering team design and develop the mechanics of our physical product and the electronics that go into it. We develop the firmware that runs on the device and the cloud service it communicates with. We design and develop the mobile and web apps that our customers use, and generate powerful insights from the hundreds of millions of hours grazing data our collars collect. In short, there’s a lot of exciting work to be done!

We are seeking an experienced Product Manager to join the Product & Engineering organization and help shape and translate our data and AI strategies into tangible customer value. We see this as a key strategic role that will contribute both to customer satisfaction today and help unlock tremendous business value in the future.

This role reports to the VP Product, and sits at the intersection of hardware, software and data.

About the role

The main responsibilities for this role will be:

• Define strategy and roadmap for a particular customer-facing space with a Data and AI focus - exact scope to be defined together with you

• Partner closely with Engineering, User Experience/Service Design, Support, Commercial teams and fellow PMs to define product requirements

• Balance customer needs, technical feasibility and business goals in order to deliver the right product to the right customers at the right time

• Collaborate closely with VP Product and other key stakeholders to define long-term product strategy and vision, and execute on those by aligning development with the bigger picture

• Maintain a detailed understanding of customer feedback and field data to continuously refine product requirements. It is expected that you will spend some of your time visiting customers in the field (both in Norway and abroad) and building relationships with colleagues across tech offices (Oslo, Molde and Trondheim)

• Act as the voice of the customer within the organisation, ensuring our product addresses real-world needs

• Facilitate decision-making throughout the development process to ensure alignment within the development team and to stakeholders

• Benchmark competitor solutions and performance, technology advancements and macro trends to make sure our product remains market leading

• Clearly communicate and document the rationale behind product requirements, decisions and trade-offs, and provide updates to both technical and non-technical stakeholders on plans and progress

• Contribute to fostering a strong Product culture at Nofence through your own behavior and example, as well as by taking initiative

About you

The right candidate is preferred to have the following qualifications:

(if you have some but not all of these, and are interested in this role, we would still like to hear from you!)

• 5 years of Product Management or similar experience involved in driving product requirements for complex products with a data or AI focus

• Experience with hardware products is a plus but not critical

• Strong customer-centric mindset and a proven track record of delivering tangible value to customers or users

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Ability to convert large amounts of customer data, market trends, competitor information and business goals into actionable product requirements

• Comfortable making data-informed decisions, running experiments and interpreting experiment results to drive good decision making

• Ability to rally a team, coach cross-functional peers and create a good team dynamic, even in challenging times

• Proactive approach to identifying and resolving cha