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Principal Product Manager, Catalysis

SandboxAQ· AI Simulation
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Remote$204k - $306kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Lead the Catalysis vertical within SandboxAQ's AI Simulation division, owning end-to-end product strategy, roadmap, and commercial expansion from government-funded R&D to a product-led business across multiple markets.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end Catalysis product strategy, vision and roadmap, spanning CHIPS Act contractual deliverables, vertical scientific depth, and commercial expansion into new markets.
  • Build a deep understanding of customer needs by working closely with Application Scientists and the Business Development team. Synthesize field insights, application benchmarking data, and market feedback into a clear picture of customer personas, and performance drivers, and translate these into prioritized product requirements and specifications.
  • Translate the program's catalysis objectives into clear product requirements, a vertical roadmap, and the evidence packages required for Fulfillment Notices to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
  • Define the dataset and model requirements for the vertical, chemical coverage, fidelity, and the benchmarking that determines where simulation investment is directed in partnership with our scientific and ML teams.
  • Drive the roadmap from property and energetics prediction toward reaction-level modelling, so that predictions can be validated against a customer's own process rather than assessed in isolation.
  • Quantify the value our catalyst products and services create for customers, such as gains in yield, selectivity, catalyst life, energy efficiency, and emissions. Equip Go-to-Market, Application Science, and Business Development teams with compelling value propositions, value models, and commercialization strategies that help them turn that technical performance into revenue, market share, and long-term customer partnerships.
  • Contribute to the catalysis commercial strategy with commercial leadership: customer segmentation, scope of offer, packaging, and pricing model across semiconductor, refining and petrochemical, emissions control and energy-transition customers.
  • Build, manage, and own strategic partner relationships at the product level: Work with fabs and equipment OEMs, precursor and specialty materials suppliers, refiners and chemical producers, catalyst manufacturers, national laboratories and validation partners, translating partner requirements into product features.
  • Define and track strategic product and commercial KPIs: Manage the metrics that matter most including, Model accuracy requirements, workflow adoption, customer segment expansion, and recurring revenue growth , and drive course corrections against OKRs.
  • Develop and defend build-vs-buy and build-vs-partner recommendations for domain-specific scientific engines, datasets and validation tooling.
  • Serve as the primary product voice for catalysis to program stakeholders, semiconductor ecosystem partners, and prospective commercial customers.
  • Define which parts of the roadmap are shared capability across end markets and which are market-specific, so that expansion compounds the product rather than fragmenting it.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in product management, including ownership of a technically deep product sold to external customers. Must be able to operate in a product capacity within business models that are software and service oriented
  • Strong domain grounding in materials science, catalysis, chemistry, or chemical engineering. Enough knowledge to sufficiently and credibly engage computational scientists, experimental validation partners, and domain SMEs.
  • Track record shipping AI/ML-driven scientific or engineering software to external, paying or contracted users; and shipping products where the ICP was not clearly understood or demand generation and funnel was not already in place.
  • Experience contributing to scope of offer, packaging and pricing decisions for technical software, or clear evidence of the commercial instinct to do so.
  • Ability to engage both computational scientists and industrial, refining, chemical or equipment OEM partners, and to turn partner requirements into product requirements.
  • Ability to reason commercially across multiple end markets at once, sizing opportunities, comparing them on evidence, and sequencing entry rather than pursuing all of them simultaneously.
  • Comfort navigating deep ambiguity: translating unclear scientific and customer problems into structured roadmaps, success criteria, and measurable outcomes.
  • Has an ownership mindset, and a rigorous operational execution track record.
  • Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or Materials Science or equivalent practical experience.

Skills

Required:Product managementDomain expertise in catalysis/materials scienceAI/ML-driven scientific software
Nice to have:Commercial acumen (pricing/packaging)

Benefits

  • Career Defining Work: accelerates discovery of better drugs and materials, advances health, enables safer technologies by applying AI Simulation capabilities.
  • Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with employer premium contributions, retirement savings with company matching, paid parental leave, inclusive family-building benefits.
  • Work-Life Balance: Fully remote, Flexible paid time off, company-wide seasonal breaks, and flexible work arrangements.
  • Learning and Growth: On-the-job development, cross-functional collaboration, and access to internal learning and development programs.
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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SandboxAQ leverages the compound effects of AI and advanced computing to address some of the biggest challenges impacting society. SandboxAQ technologies include AI simulation, cryptography management for cybersecurity, and AI sensing for global organizations.

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