Associate Product Manager

Ready to step into the center of software delivery and help our engineering team turn real-world problems into rightsized, buildable solutions? Read on! 

About Us  
If it’s high-stakes, high-security, or highly complex—Oxalis is built for it. We’re a consulting and technology partner for the organizations that keep the world running: life sciences, shipyards, government agencies, health systems, aerospace programs, and manufacturers with missions too critical to fail. We serve the people behind the mission—those building, healing, defending, and delivering where it matters most. As a Platinum Solution Partner for Atlassian and a trusted systems integrator for IFS, we specialize in secure cloud transformation, IT service management, ERP modernization, and operational strategy—especially for organizations navigating compliance-heavy environments and complex change. Oxalis values thoughtful communication, ownership, and measurable outcomes.  

About the Role 
We’re looking for an Associate Product Manager to be the interface between the client and the engineering team. You will operate in hardware-heavy industrial settings while focusing on software and systems delivery. You’ll work where devices, services, and operational processes intersect—common in advanced manufacturing, industrial technology, and other complex systems industries. You’ll help internal Oxalis teams learn quickly and deliver meaningful outcomes to our clients. 

You’ll join a small, senior engineering team and serve as the bridge between customer intent and buildable product. The rhythm is iterative: scope, ship, observe, and adjust. Success looks like clear problem framing, practical tradeoffs, crisp documentation, and steady alignment across customer, product, and engineering. 

Key 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. 

About You

• 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. 
   

Why Work for Us? 
Join Oxalis and be part of a team that’s transforming how regulated industries operate through cutting-edge solutions. Here, leadership means driving innovation and owning your impact; empathy shapes our people-first culture; growth is constant; quality defines everything we deliver; and curiosity fuels our drive to solve complex challenges.  

Location 
Hybrid work in Portland, OR, with occasional travel to client sites up to 20%.

Equal Opportunity Statement  
Oxalis provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. 

The posted salary range for this position is $75,000-$90,000.