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# Lead Product Manager, Feed ERP at Datacor

- **Company:** Datacor
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/datacor/jobs/5250872007

## Job description

About Us:

Datacor is the leading provider of software solutions, including ERP, CRM, Asset Tracking, Simulation and Formulation, to the process manufacturing space. We are on a mission to better equip the industry with software solutions and move it forward by building thoughtful, intuitive products that solve our customers’ most difficult problems.

We are passionate about serving our customers and helping them use data as a competitive advantage. Our customers make products that extend and sustain lives by sanitizing, fertilizing, beautifying, cleaning, and recycling the world we live in. We at Datacor help our customers make those products you use every day more safely, cost effectively and more efficiently through our technology platforms and applications.

About this role:

Feed mills and grain businesses run their daily operations on Datacor Animal Nutrition's Feed ERP products, Feed Mill Manager and Pennent Mill Manager: commodity merchandising, procurement, plant production, and delivery. As Lead Product Manager, you own the strategy, roadmap, and revenue outcomes for this product line.

This role is not a backlog-management job. You are accountable for product-level ARR, net revenue retention, and win rate, and you set pricing and packaging direction. The core qualification is industry depth: you understand how merchandisers, plant managers, and feed businesses actually work, and you turn that into products they will pay for.

What you will do:

Strategy & Commercial Ownership

- Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Feed Mill Manager and Pennent Mill Manager, aligning Engineering, Services, Support, and Commercial teams on priorities that drive retention, cross-sell, upsell, and new-market growth.
- Own the numbers. Accountable for product-level ARR, net revenue retention, and win rate.
- Build the pricing and packaging recommendation, including tier design and customer migration, and present it to the Datacor Pricing Committee.
- Frame ambiguous business goals into a problem, options, and a plan. Make product-level tradeoffs, influence resourcing within the unit, and work across Datacor products to avoid duplicative investment.

Market & Customer Discovery

- Run competitive research and win/loss analysis, and turn findings into roadmap and positioning changes.
- Lead the product advisory group, from agenda to synthesis to follow-through, and represent Datacor Animal Nutrition at industry events.
- Validate before you build. Set success criteria up front, test ideas with customers using AI-built prototypes, and kill work that misses the bar.
- Own AI-enabled capabilities in the product, including quality bars, failure modes, and customer trust, and an AI-assisted discovery workflow that is fast and verifiable.

Delivery, Launch & Leadership

- Prioritize the backlog against the roadmap, defining use cases, requirements, and measurable outcomes, and escalating cross-functional risks and blockers.
- Own tiered launches with readiness gates and success criteria. Drive Sales, Services, and Support enablement (battlecards, objection handling, AE/SE readiness) and partner with Product Marketing on analyst briefings, webinars, and user conference sessions.
- Lead without direct authority. Broker competing priorities, hold the line on product decisions, coach junior PMs, and own interview loops for the product.

## What we are looking for

Required:

- Feed industry depth. Meaningful experience in agribusiness, feed manufacturing, or commodity trading, with working knowledge of at least two of: commodity merchandising, ingredient procurement, feed plant operations or livestock feed regulatory requirements.
- Product line ownership. You have owned a B2B software product's roadmap and business outcomes, balancing strategy with delivery.
- Commercial judgment. Evidence that your pricing, packaging, win/loss, or business case work changed a decision.
- Discovery craft. You push past a customer's requested solution to the underlying problem and validate before committing engineering time.
- Strong communication. You can lay out a problem, options, tradeoffs, and a recommendation in a written narrative someone can act on without a meeting, and present it credibly to executives, engineers, and customers.
- Hands-on AI use. You use AI daily to research, draft, analyze, and prototype, and you know when its output needs verification.
- Technical fluency. Comfortable discussing data models, integrations, and product details with development teams.
- Ownership without authority. You drive results through teams that do not report to you, and you travel to customers and events.
- Education. Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred:

- Experience with feed and/or ration formulation software, familiarity with nutrition or feed labeling regulations, software development, or product managing AI or data-driven capabilities.

EOE Statement:

Datacor is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis or race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

Use of AI During Interviews:

At Datacor, we value thoughtful problem-solving and authentic perspectives. To ensure a fair and consistent evaluation process, we ask that candidates do not use generative AI tools or outside assistance during live interviews unless explicitly stated otherwise. We're interested in hearing your experience, your approach, and how you think through challenges.

## About Datacor

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Datacor provides purpose-built business management and engineering simulation software for process manufacturers, chemical distributors, and engineers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (no disclosed funding rounds; bootstrapped or private equity-backed)
- **Headquarters**: Florham Park, New Jersey, United States
- **Founded**: 1981
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Process manufacturing, chemical distribution, engineering simulation
- **Target customers**: B2B – process manufacturers, chemical distributors, and engineering firms of all sizes (SMB to enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Empower process manufacturers, chemical distributors, and engineers worldwide with advanced business management and engineering simulation software." [datacor.com](https://www.datacor.com/company/about)

## Products & Services
- **Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)**: Integrated business management for process manufacturing and chemical distribution (SaaS/on-premise).
- **Customer Relationship Management (CRM)**: Sales and customer management tailored to the process industries.
- **Manufacturing Execution System (MES)**: Real-time production tracking and control.
- **Warehouse Management System (WMS)**: Inventory and warehouse optimization.
- **Formulation**: Recipe and formula management for chemicals, food, and animal nutrition.
- **Regulatory Control**: Compliance and labeling for hazardous materials.
- **Asset Tracking**: Equipment and container tracking.
- **Nutrition Labeling**: Automated nutrition facts generation.
- **Feed ERP**: Specialized ERP for animal feed manufacturers.
- **Chemical Process Simulation**: Engineering simulation for chemical processes (e.g., CHEMCAD).
- **Flow Simulation**: Fluid flow and piping system analysis (e.g., AFT Fathom, Arrow).
- **Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)**: Lab data management.
- **Statistical Quality Control (SQC)**: Quality monitoring and analysis.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue – $57 million (LinkedIn estimate, 2025) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/datacorinc)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available; the company has made several acquisitions (Baytek International, Chemstations, Format Solutions, GoldSim, Infonetics) indicating private equity or internal funding.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew 24% year-over-year to 264 employees (as of mid-2025) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/datacorinc)
  - Acquired Baytek International in May 2025, expanding ERP capabilities.
  - Hiring for AI Optimization Engineer and Senior Lead Product Manager, Data Platform & Analytics – signaling investment in AI and data.
  - Remote-first global team spanning 37+ U.S. states and countries (Costa Rica, UK, South Africa, India, Canada).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep industry expertise**: 40+ years focused exclusively on process manufacturing, chemical distribution, and engineering – a niche most generalist ERP vendors cannot match.
- **Comprehensive suite**: Covers ERP, CRM, MES, WMS, simulation, LIMS, and regulatory – a one-stop platform for process industries.
- **Proven track record**: Thousands of customers and a history of acquisitions that broaden capabilities without diluting focus.
- **Engineering simulation leadership**: Products like CHEMCAD and AFT Fathom are established standards in chemical and fluid flow simulation.

## Strategic Focus
- **Continuous improvement** – incremental and long-term advancements in software and services.
- **AI and data platform** – recent hires for AI Optimization Engineer and Senior Lead Product Manager for Data Platform & Analytics, plus a Chief AI Officer, indicate a push toward AI-driven insights.
- **Global expansion** – growing presence in Costa Rica and other regions to support a remote-first workforce.
- **Customer-centric innovation** – emphasis on synthesizing customer feedback and market research to develop competitive advantages.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Work from anywhere in the U.S. or select international locations; offices in Florham Park (NJ), Colorado Springs, Houston, Corpus Christi, and San Jose (Costa Rica). [careers.datacor.com](https://www.datacor.com/company/careers)
- **Flexible time off (FTO)** and paid parental leave.
- **Comprehensive benefits**: Premier medical, vision, dental with company-funded HRA, 401(k) with company contribution, competitive pay and bonus programs.
- **Growth opportunities**: 13 open roles as of mid-2025 across development (AI, simulation, data), implementation, product, sales, and support. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/datacor)
- **Values-driven**: Core values – Focus on Customer Experience, Continuous Improvement, Industry Experts and Innovators, One Team.
- **Engineering culture**: Roles like Senior Software Engineer – Engineering Simulation Group and AI Optimization Engineer highlight technical depth and impact.

## Sources
1. [datacor.com](https://www.datacor.com/) – Main website and product overview
2. [datacor.com/company/about](https://www.datacor.com/company/about) – About Us, history, solutions
3. [datacor.com/company/careers](https://www.datacor.com/company/careers) – Careers page, benefits, culture
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/datacor](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/datacor) – Current job openings
5. [linkedin.com/company/datacorinc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/datacorinc) – LinkedIn company profile (revenue, headcount, acquisitions, employee growth)

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