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SandboxAQ

Principal Product Manager, Material Science

SandboxAQ

. Own the end-to-end Catalysis product strategy, vision, and roadmap .

Posted 10/30/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $163,200 - $306,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in product management for catalysis, with a strong foundation in materials science and chemistry. Capable of translating customer insights into actionable product requirements while driving commercial strategies and partnerships.

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Product ManagementMaterials ScienceCatalysisAI/ML-Driven SoftwareCommercial Strategy

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Hard Skills
Product OwnershipTechnical Product DevelopmentComputational Chemistry WorkflowsData AnalysisMarket SegmentationPricing StrategyKPI TrackingBuild-Vs-Buy AnalysisChemical EngineeringSoftware Development
Soft Skills
Operational ExecutionCustomer EngagementStrategic ThinkingCollaborationProblem Solving
Tools & Technologies
Multi-Tenant SaaSAPI GovernanceEnterprise SecurityCompliance Requirements
Industry Keywords
Catalysis End MarketsChemical ProducersRefinersSemiconductor EcosystemDensity Functional TheoryMolecular DynamicsMicrokinetic ModellingHomogeneous CatalysisHeterogeneous Surface ChemistryMachine-Learned Interatomic Potentials

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About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own the end-to-end Catalysis product strategy, vision, and roadmap
  • Serve as product owner for catalysis within SandboxAQ's $500M CHIPS Act R&D award
  • Translate contractual objectives into product requirements and external fulfilment
  • Partner with Program Managers to ensure successful milestone delivery
  • Build the commercial foundation for catalysis as a product-led business generating recurring revenue
  • Work with Application Scientists and Business Development to understand customer needs
  • Synthesize field insights, application benchmarking data, and market feedback into customer personas and performance drivers
  • Translate customer insights into prioritized product requirements and specifications
  • Translate catalysis objectives into a vertical roadmap and evidence packages for Fulfillment Notices to the U.S. Department of Commerce
  • Define dataset, model, chemical coverage, fidelity, and benchmarking requirements with scientific and ML teams
  • Drive the roadmap from property and energetics prediction toward reaction-level modelling
  • Quantify customer value including yield, selectivity, catalyst life, energy efficiency, and emissions improvements
  • Equip Go-to-Market, Application Science, and Business Development teams with value propositions, value models, and commercialization strategies
  • Contribute to customer segmentation, offer scope, packaging, and pricing models
  • Build and manage strategic product-level partner relationships
  • Translate partner requirements into product features
  • Define and track product and commercial KPIs, including model accuracy, workflow adoption, segment expansion, and recurring revenue growth
  • Drive course corrections against OKRs
  • Develop and defend build-vs-buy and build-vs-partner recommendations
  • Serve as the primary product voice for catalysis to program stakeholders, ecosystem partners, and prospective customers
  • Define shared capabilities versus market-specific roadmap components

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 5+ years in product management, including ownership of a technically deep product sold to external customers
  • Ability to operate in product capacity within software- and service-oriented business models
  • Strong domain grounding in materials science, catalysis, chemistry, or chemical engineering
  • Ability to engage computational scientists, experimental validation partners, and domain SMEs credibly
  • Track record shipping AI/ML-driven scientific or engineering software to external, paying or contracted users
  • Experience shipping products where the ICP was not clearly understood or demand generation and funnel were not already in place
  • Experience contributing to scope of offer, packaging, and pricing decisions for technical software, or clear commercial instinct to do so
  • Ability to engage computational scientists and industrial, refining, chemical, or equipment OEM partners
  • Ability to translate partner requirements into product requirements
  • Ability to reason commercially across multiple end markets, size opportunities using evidence, and sequence market entry
  • Comfort navigating deep ambiguity and translating unclear scientific and customer problems into structured roadmaps, success criteria, and measurable outcomes
  • Ownership mindset and rigorous operational execution track record
  • Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or Materials Science or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience in one or more major catalysis end markets (highly desired)
  • Familiarity with computational chemistry workflows such as density functional theory (DFT), molecular dynamics, or microkinetic modelling (highly desired)
  • Semiconductor or electronic materials process chemistry experience (highly desired)
  • Familiarity with homogeneous or solution-phase catalysis and heterogeneous surface chemistry (highly desired)
  • Understanding of machine-learned interatomic potentials, spin polarization in transition-metal systems, and evaluation of ML models against experimental or first-principles reference data (highly desired)
  • Track record building product-led growth motions for technical or scientific software (highly desired)
  • Prior product or business development engagement with catalyst manufacturers, chemical producers, refiners, or semiconductor ecosystem partners (highly desired)
  • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS, API governance, and enterprise security and compliance requirements (highly desired)
  • Advanced degree in Computational Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Catalysis, Materials Science, or a related field (highly desired)
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the country where the job is located
  • Cannot currently participate in foreign talent programs sponsored by China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Competitive base salary
  • Performance-based incentives or bonuses (where applicable)
  • Equity participation
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions
  • Retirement savings with company matching
  • Paid parental leave
  • Inclusive family-building benefits
  • Fully remote work
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Company-wide seasonal breaks
  • Support for flexible work arrangements
  • On-the-job development
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Access to internal learning and development programs