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title: 'Forward Deployed Product Manager at CruxOCM'
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# Forward Deployed Product Manager at CruxOCM

- **Company:** CruxOCM
- **Location:** Calgary, Canada
- **Compensation:** $110k–$150k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/cruxocm/2b72bdc4-35c7-432b-b349-368801ea3926

## Job description

## About CruxOCM

CruxOCM is the leading automation company in heavy industry, specifically targeting the energy sector. We are a venture capital-backed company dedicated to transforming this industry. Control room operators require the most effective tools to perform their jobs safely and efficiently, while minimizing environmental impact and maximizing revenue. Considering that pilots have autopilot software, it's time for control room operators to have a comparable solution.

## About the Role

We are looking for a Forward Deployment Product Manager who will bridge the gap between software engineering and the oil & gas industry. You will be responsible for leading the end-to-end delivery of advanced software integration and automation solutions, ensuring seamless integration with industrial systems and workflows. You will act as the primary conduit between our internal engineering teams and our external industrial partners.

The Forward Deployment Product Manager, reporting to the Director of Deployment Automation, is a key role that blends leadership skills, personal skills, and technical expertise. You will join a team focused on delivering robust solutions to improve pipeline operations within customer control room environments. This role involves close collaboration with cross-functional teams (Deployment, Support, Sales, Finance, Product, and Engineering) to ensure alignment on customer requirements, project delivery, and the product roadmap.

Job Responsibilities

- Agile leadership: Lead daily stand-ups, sprint planning, story pointing, sprint reviews, and team retrospectives to foster a culture of continuous improvement with best Agile practices.

- Project management: Manage multiple concurrent projects, develop comprehensive project plans, defining milestones, align timeline with customers, optimizing resource allocation, and identifying critical paths.

- AI-Driven Productivity: Leverage cutting-edge AI tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, LLMs) on a daily basis to accelerate project management tasks.

- Dependency management: Proactively identify and resolve technical or procedural dependencies and blockers to maintain delivery velocity.

- Productivity champion: Identify opportunities for internal productivity improvements through tooling, standardizing processes, developing playbook and documentation, automating tests, deployment scripts, productizing custom development, etc.

- Quality Assurance: Ensure all deliverables meet the high safety and reliability standards required for heavy industry environments.

- External Coordination: Serve as the primary point of contact for customers, managing expectations and providing transparent progress updates.

- Relationship Building: Develop deep, trust-based relationships with client-side technical leads and plant managers.

- Internal Synergy: Align cross-functional teams to ensure a unified delivery approach.

## Requirements

- Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, Engineering, Data Science, or related fields.

- Experience: 3+ years of combined experience in engineering, product development, or technical program/project management.

- Technical Acumen: Ability to discuss design tradeoffs, system architecture, and debugging with engineers.

- Hands-on AI Proficiency: Demonstrated daily experience using AI coding assistants, generative tools, and automated workflows to increase personal and engineering output.

- (Desirable) Domain Knowledge: oil and gas, hydraulic theory, fluid dynamics, advanced control

## What we offer

- Competitive compensation package, including equity

- Comprehensive health benefits

- Remote-first work environment

- Flexible work arrangements

- Professional development opportunities

- Growth-mindset culture

- A diverse and inclusive environment

## About CruxOCM

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: CruxOCM provides AI-powered industrial automation software that autonomously executes and optimizes control-room operations for oil and gas midstream pipelines and gathering systems.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; most recent round $17M led by M12 in 2024)
- **Headquarters**: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- **Founded**: 2018 (co-founders’ own account; LinkedIn lists 2017)
- **Founders**: Vicki Knott, P.Eng. (CEO) and Roger Shirt, PhD, P.Eng. (Senior Advisor & Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Industrial automation software for the energy sector (oil & gas midstream)
- **Target customers**: B2B, enterprise – pipeline operators, midstream companies, control-room teams
- **Mission / purpose**: “AI-powered automation for industrial environments where failure is not an option — safer control-room operations, higher throughput, lower OPEX.” [cruxocm.com/about-us](https://cruxocm.com/about-us/)

## Products & Services
- **pipeBOT™** – Closed-loop automation for pipeline operations; reduces tank excursions by 85%, lowers DRA cost by 2–4%, and lifts throughput by 2–7%. [cruxocm.com](https://cruxocm.com/)
- **leanOPT™** – Continuous optimization module that reduces power cost up to 16% while holding contracted volume. [cruxocm.com](https://cruxocm.com/)
- **maxOPT™** – Maximizes throughput on existing infrastructure without new capital.
- **gatherBOT™** – Automation for gathering systems, extending the same platform to upstream/midstream boundaries.
- **IAH™ (Industrial Autonomy Hub)** – The underlying platform that sits between existing SCADA/DCS infrastructure and execution apps, providing governed, physics-based autonomous control. [cruxocm.com](https://cruxocm.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of ~$7.2M (LinkedIn estimate; fiscal year end Dec 31); Total disclosed funding ~$26.6M (including $17M Series A, $2.6M venture, $6M venture, $350K pre-seed, CAD 7.6M seed)
- **Notable Investors & Partners**: M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund – lead investor in Series A), Root Ventures, Angular Ventures, Bullpen Capital; deployed with midstream partners across North America
- **Growth Signals**: 2–7% throughput uplift proven in production; 87% reduction in manual interventions; headcount of 31 employees (down 6.5% YoY); active job postings for engineering roles; remote-first across North America

## Competitive Advantages
- **Physics-first AI**: Uses first-principles physics models, not black-box ML, keeping control inside real system constraints.
- **Operator authority at every layer**: Every change is traced and requires human approval – no “rip-and-replace” of existing SCADA/DCS.
- **Proven in mission-critical environments**: Deployed on live pipelines with measurable operational gains (safety, throughput, cost).
- **Backed by Microsoft’s M12**: Strategic validation and access to enterprise channels.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the IAH™ platform to more asset types (beyond pipelines) and deepen autonomous execution capabilities.
- Continue governed, operator-in-the-loop automation to help midstream companies increase profitability without new infrastructure.
- Grow the engineering and field deployment teams to expand North American footprint.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first**: Fully remote across North America with hubs in Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, and the Bay Area. [cruxocm.com/careers](https://cruxocm.com/careers/)
- **Culture**: “Clear ownership. Thoughtful execution.” – emphasis on direct communication, owning outcomes, designing for clarity and stability. Rated 5.0/5.0 on employer reviews (3 reviews) with top marks for culture (5.0) and compensation (4.5). [linkedin.com/company/crux-ocm](https://linkedin.com/company/crux-ocm)
- **Engineering focus**: Mission-critical systems where success is measured in throughput, safety, and reliability – not just shipping fast. Roles include Forward Deployed Engineer, Advanced Process Control Engineer, and Forward Deployed Product Manager. [jobs.lever.co/cruxocm](https://jobs.lever.co/cruxocm/)
- **Perks**: Remote work, opportunity to work on industrial AI that executes in real production, and collaboration with a tight team of engineers and domain experts.

## Sources
1. [cruxocm.com/careers](https://cruxocm.com/careers)
2. [cruxocm.com/about-us](https://cruxocm.com/about-us/)
3. [cruxocm.com](https://cruxocm.com/)
4. [jobs.lever.co/cruxocm](https://jobs.lever.co/cruxocm/)
5. [linkedin.com/company/crux-ocm](https://linkedin.com/company/crux-ocm)

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