Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated minerals company focused on supplying the minerals critical to modern energy, AI, and defense technologies. Backed by Khosla and a16z.
About the role
Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated minerals company supplying the minerals critical to modern energy, AI, and defense technologies. Our data systems don't live in a vacuum — they feed process simulators, drive site automation, and are the substrate the business runs its decisions on.
What they're looking for
- 4–8+ years in technical product management, data platform or analytics product roles, or equivalent experience leading cross-disciplinary technical programs
- Comfortable being the only PM in a highly technical room — you know when to drive a decision, when to defer to engineers, and how to build credibility without being the most technical person there
- Enough depth in data infrastructure and analytics to earn credibility with data engineers, data scientists, and analysts, and to know when a technical answer is a good one
- Working fluency with the current LLM/foundation-model landscape and where agentic approaches genuinely fit versus conventional software
- Track record of bringing structure to ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives: setting direction, aligning stakeholders, and owning outcomes end-to-end
- Hands-on prototyping ability — you can get a PoC built with stakeholders, not just write requirements for one
More about this role
Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated minerals company on a mission to supply the critical minerals powering modern energy, AI, and defense technologies. We’re reimagining the minerals supply chain by combining deep industry expertise with advanced software, automation, and data-driven decision-making.
Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated minerals company supplying the minerals critical to modern energy, AI, and defense technologies. Our data systems don't live in a vacuum — they feed process simulators, drive site automation, and are the substrate the business runs its decisions on.
We're hiring a Technical Product Manager to be the single product owner for the data engineering family — the data platform, analytics, data science, and the AI and agentic workflows built on top of them. Today this work is spread across technical leads and absorbed informally, with no one setting direction across the whole. Your job is to change that: decide what the data organization builds and why, get stakeholders aligned behind it, and make sure engineers can stay heads-down on the work that matters.
This is a hybrid Pioneer/Settler role: you'll get...
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