Senior Product Manager, Planning

Pleasanton · Pleasanton, CA (HQ) · USD 140,000-180,000 / year · 8+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 19, 2026

At a glance

Avathon is hiring a Senior Product Manager to own Planning on the Avathon platform, starting with integrated demand planning.
This role involves turning customer-by-customer planning capabilities into one product with a clear roadmap built on a Computational Knowledge Graph and AI agents.
This is a product management role in Product Engineering where you will own what is built and why, working with engineering, AI science, and forward deployed teams.

Own the vision, roadmap and priorities for Planning across demand, supply, inventory and S&OP
Understand the market relative to competitors like Blue Yonder, o9, Kinaxis, Oracle and SAP IBP
Shape agentic planning by defining how planners work with, supervise and override agents that generate forecasts, flag exceptions and recommend supply actions
Decide what goes into the core product versus what stays as customer configuration
Define how planning connects to the rest of the platform including PLM and BOM data, logistics, procurement and asset health
Own the demand planning module covering statistical forecasting, ML-based demand sensing and collaborative demand review
Define requirements for demand segmentation, forecast value-add (FVA), and bias and accuracy analytics
Design collaborative workflows for demand analysts, supply planners, sales and S&OP leaders to review, override and approve plans with a full audit trail
Spend real time with planners and S&OP leaders at customer sites and iterate based on real planning cycles
Write clear requirements and acceptance criteria, run release reviews with the engineering lead and keep the roadmap honest

8+ years in product management, with at least 4 years owning a supply chain planning product (demand planning, S&OP, inventory or supply planning)
Experience at a planning software vendor such as Blue Yonder, o9 Solutions, Kinaxis, Oracle SCM, SAP IBP, Anaplan or Aera, or leading planning systems at a large manufacturer
Depth in demand planning including knowledge of statistical and ML forecasting methods, accuracy and bias metrics, and how demand plans drive supply decisions
Breadth across plan-to-fulfill including demand-supply matching, inventory optimization, allocation and S&OP
Experience shipping AI or ML driven product features to enterprise customers
Comfortable with ERP, MES and PLM data such as SAP and Oracle and how it flows into planning
Strong written communication skills with the ability to write a one-page product brief that engineering and sales both understand
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Operations Research or a related quantitative field

Agentic workflows in planning
Experience in industrial B2B environments such as manufacturing, mining, energy or aerospace
MBA or MS degree