Product Champion - Well Integrity

Your Job

This is not your average Product Management role. DarkVision's Product Champions have a broad range of responsibilities that require a high degree of technical acuity and business acumen. The successful candidate will have significant influence on the development and commercialization of our highly advanced ultrasound imaging devices and how they are brought to market.

If you are currently working in Completions Engineering, Well Optimization, Asset Integrity, or a related occupation and would like to play a pivotal role in planning and developing leading edge downhole imaging tools - please apply!

If you are intelligent and driven to make a difference, we want to hear from you - no prior Product Management experience is required. This is a great opportunity to join a world-class team who are revolutionizing critical asset integrity management.

This role will be based out of DarkVision's head office in Vancouver, Canada. Reporting to our Director of Product, the successful candidate will be involved in managing the continuous improvement, strategy, and product/project roadmapping of our industry-leading downhole imaging technologies as we continue to expand into new geographies and applications.

Our Team

To make well-informed decisions, Oil & Gas asset operators need a clear picture of the inner workings of piping infrastructure. The team at DarkVision makes this happen. Our experts from across the machine vision, imaging, computer graphics, and data analytics sectors have worked to create the most technologically advanced platform for pipeline and downhole diagnostics. Come join our team as we embark on the exciting journey ahead to become the global leader in industrial imaging.

What You Will Do

• Project Development / Management: Partner with R&D to create and maintain product and project roadmaps for service offerings that incorporate both hardware and software elements, acting as the intermediary between our clients and R&D. Responsible for continuously updating roadmap timelines and plans, accounting for changes to the competitive landscape, organizational strategy, and R&D's feedback. You will be involved in the whole product lifecycle, from ideation to launch.
• Product Requirements & Specifications: Responsible for researching, analyzing, and documenting product specifications and requirements. It will be your responsibility to distill and disseminate large amounts of technical and non-technical information to the executive team leading up to and during product launches. This will include gathering information on end-users, regulatory requirements, technical experts, and anything in between from discussions with Sales, R&D, and Clients.
• Product Strategy: Create and execute product strategy for our downhole acoustic imaging product line. Determine and plan product lifecycle based on thorough market analysis and feedback from both our R&D and executive teams. Manage tradeoffs and prioritize elements of the downhole product line in response to changing market demands and internal conversations between Engineering and our executive group.
• Managing Product Scope: Able to understand and communicate the technical complexity, timelines, and business value of all facets of the product, making trade-offs to maximize value creation. Plan, communicate, and deliver actionable goals for product features to the R&D team.
• Competitive & Market Analysis: Perform ongoing competitive analysis of the cased-hole logging industry, including pricing strategies and product positioning.
• Product Marketing & Planning: Keep DarkVision's value proposition front and center through the development of business models, 5-year plans, technical papers, case studies, and other documentation that requires a blend of business acumen and technical know-how. Plan and articulate market entry strategies and key messaging for different geographies.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Post secondary education in Engineering or a STEM field.
• Oil & Gas industry experience in areas such as production engineering, completions engineering, or asset integrity.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Prior experience in ultrasonic or other NDT technologies.
• Experience with products that combine HW, SW, and data analytics
• Experience managing projects or products in a start-up or scale-up small to medium sized company environment
• Articulate, concise, and direct communicator
• Strong business acumen - knows when to push the needle and how to get stakeholders aligned
• Pragmatic and action-oriented - get to the point and root cause quickly; not one to over structure, plan, analyze, and discuss ad nauseam

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

DarkVision Technologies Inc. is a BC-based tech company that has been disrupting the industrial imaging market since 2013. We have created the world's most advanced acoustic-based imaging platform and are packaging it into multiple new product lines, revolutionizing how our clients quantify and visualize the integrity of their critical assets.

Backed by Koch Industries, the largest privately held company in North America, DarkVision's team of Mechanical, Skunkworks, Electrical, Software, and Machine Learning Engineers is rapidly expanding to meet the demand for the company's current and upcoming products.

We provide employees the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies that blend science with real-world applications and invite you to join our team for the exciting journey ahead as we become the global leader in industrial imaging.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).

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