We're seeking a customer-obsessed Product Manager to drive a new go to market opportunity in retail. You'll transform customer requirements and insights into actionable plans with our LP, Growth and Product teams.
Key Responsibilities
Deliver and coordinate the operations capacity to convert pilots, expand customers, and drive revenue from zero to one. Manage AI, software development and human in the loop to provide our product and service to customer delight.
Customer Obsession: Conduct customer research, client calls, and interviews to uncover operational pain points, transform insights into product requirements, and launch new pilot programs with retail partners to validate solutions in real-world environments
Pilot Execution: Coordinating teams to accomplish installations, data integrations, and pilot operations.
Stakeholder Management: Master stakeholder relationships across retail operations, loss prevention, store management, and corporate leadership while aligning business and technology teams
Partnering with technology teams: You’ll write speclets, PRDs, personas and collaborate with Product Owners and their teams who deliver new features in 2-week sprints
Product Strategy: Define product vision and roadmap, create and refine customer personas, identify market opportunities
Team Leadership: Lead and create momentum with our Sales, Operations, Success, Support, Product teams to ensure smooth rollouts and operations
P&L accountability: Create and maintain profit and loss reports for our services and lead the team to deliver features to market with a path to increasingly strong margins.
Required Qualifications
3+ years Product Management or Product Development experience (1+ years B2B/enterprise)
Entrepreneurial with a hustler mindset
Proven track record launching and scaling successful products
Experience leading Product Designers and partnering with engineering
Strong agile/scrum and sprint-based delivery experience
Excellent stakeholder management across organizational levels
Exceptional communication skills with ability to influence without authority
Technical acumen to discuss concepts with engineering teams
Demonstrated customer obsession and analytical skills
Project management experience
Nice to Have
3+ years experience designing and refining workflows for human backoffice teams
Retail industry experience, particularly operations or store management in grocery or classic retail
Background with Loss Prevention teams and retail security
Knowledge of retail systems (POS, inventory management)
Experience with video analytics or AI-powered retail solutions
Proficient using AI tools for visualizing ideas, prototyping and refining product specifications
Experience with Computer Vision based solutions
Operations management experience
What We're Looking For
Genuinely curious about retail operations and stopping shrink
Thrives in ambiguity and creates structure from chaos
Context-switches between strategy and detailed execution
A force of nature that bring clarity and contagious energy and enthusiasm
The face of the product that customers will intuitively trust
Views obstacles as problem-solving opportunities
Ovii Interpretation
This Product Manager role develops a retail loss-prevention opportunity from customer research and pilot validation through product rollout and commercial growth. You’ll connect retail customers with product, engineering, and operational teams, while helping shape the roadmap and service economics.
Role at a glance
Product strategy and roadmapRetail customer researchPilot programs and rolloutCross-functional deliveryB2B and enterprise productsService P&L accountability
Research retail customer needs and turn findings into product requirements and pilot proposals.
Coordinate pilot installations, data integrations, and ongoing operations with retail partners.
Bring product, engineering, sales, operations, success, and support teams together for rollouts.
Write product specifications, PRDs, and personas, and coordinate feature delivery in sprint cycles.
Set product direction, refine customer personas, and identify market opportunities.
Plan operational capacity to convert pilots into expanded customer deployments and revenue.
Track service P&L and work with teams toward stronger margins.
Good fit signals
Has at least 3 years in product management or product development, including at least 1 year in B2B or enterprise work.
Has launched and scaled products and has experience leading product designers while partnering with engineering.
Brings strong Agile, Scrum, sprint-delivery, and project-management experience.
Communicates clearly, manages stakeholders across organizational levels, and can influence without formal authority.
Retail, loss prevention, human back-office workflow, AI, or computer-vision experience can be helpful, but is listed as nice to have.
Meet Panoptyc
Panoptyc is an Atlanta-based technology company providing AI-powered loss prevention solutions for retail businesses. Founded in 2019, the company combines computer vision, machine learning, security camera footage, and human verification to identify suspected theft and provide actionable incident evidence. Its solutions address employee theft, cashier theft, self-checkout fraud, missed scans, and walkouts. Panoptyc serves grocery stores, convenience stores, micro markets, corporate dining facilities, and other retailers. Its platform helps operators reduce inventory shrinkage, investigate incidents, and minimize time spent manually reviewing surveillance footage. The company reports protecting more than 25,000 retail locations and working with over 50 major retail organizations.
Founded
2019
Company size
51-200 employees
Company stage
Not known
Headquarters
Atlanta, USA
Why work here
Panoptyc offers opportunities to work on computer vision, machine learning, video processing, and software engineering applications used in retail environments. The company reports protecting more than 25,000 locations and working with over 50 major retailers, providing opportunities to develop technology used at scale. Its engineering roles involve C#, .NET, Angular, NestJS, Next.js, AWS, and other modern development tools. Computer vision roles involve deep learning, object detection, and edge AI deployment. Panoptyc received recognition at the 2025 Loss Prevention Research Council Product Protection Summit. Public engineering job descriptions have advertised remote-first arrangements, flexible working practices, and competitive compensation. Candidates interested in applied AI, retail technology, and engineering ownership may find relevant opportunities.
Mac Bolak is the Founder and CEO of Panoptyc, established in 2019. He studied at the University of Colorado Boulder and previously co-founded Give and Go Film, a computer vision company focused on basketball analytics. His experience developing AI-powered video analysis technology led to the creation of Panoptyc's retail theft detection platform. He leads the company's strategy, product direction, and business expansion.
MWMatthew WilsonChief Technology OfficerView bioHide bio
Matthew Wilson is the Chief Technology Officer of Panoptyc. He has held engineering and technology roles at Motorola, Kodak Gallery, Coldwell Banker, and Lab Zero. His experience includes developing digital products and scaling engineering teams. At Panoptyc, he oversees technical strategy, software architecture, and engineering development.
JBJared BrandtChief Operating OfficerView bioHide bio
Jared Brandt is the Chief Operating Officer of Panoptyc. He previously spent approximately eight years at PwC, working in product strategy and digital engineering leadership. He studied at Emory University. At Panoptyc, he focuses on operational scaling, organizational development, and coordination across business and product teams.
RWRoss WinstonVice President of OperationsView bioHide bio
Ross Winston is Vice President of Operations at Panoptyc. He graduated from Duke University and previously worked at Quicken Loans and Rapid Finance. He supports operational execution, customer delivery, and coordination across business functions. He was recognized in Automatic Merchandiser's 40 Under 40 program.
Latest company news
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Panoptyc Wins AI Category at 2025 Product Protection Summit
Panoptyc
Panoptyc announced that the Loss Prevention Research Council recognized the company as the AI Category Winner at its 2025 Product Protection Summit for its application of artificial intelligence to retail loss prevention.
Panoptyc introduced Sentry, an AI-powered walkout detection solution designed for unattended retail environments. The system analyzes video footage to identify suspicious activity and help operators investigate potential theft.