Altana is the network for trusted trade. Our AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing.
The Opportunity at Altana
The rules of global trade are being rewritten in real time.
Supply chain transparency requirements, forced labor enforcement, semiconductor export controls, tariff volatility, allied coordination on economic security — governments around the world are being asked to do something they've never been equipped to do: understand, monitor, and act on the full depth of global commerce, not just the edge of it. The manifest at the dock. The entry summary at the border. The invoice that says one thing while the supply chain says another.
The tools haven't kept pace with the mandate. Customs agencies still rely on paper-based trusted trader audits, rule-matching targeting systems that can't see the network, and data sharing infrastructure that was designed for a simpler era of trade. The result is a widening gap between what governments need to know and what they can actually see — a gap that bad actors exploit, that allies can't easily close together, and that legitimate traders pay for in delays, uncertainty, and compliance overhead.
Altana exists to close that gap.
As Principal Product Manager for Public Sector, you will own how governments harness the power of the Altana network, not just to enforce at the border, but to understand the full complexity of global supply chains, collaborate with allies, and shape the trade policy and economic security decisions that will define the next era of globalization. You've worked at the intersection of trade policy, enforcement technology, and government operations. You understand how targeting decisions get made, how government agencies operate, and why the data that governments actually need almost never arrives in the format they need it. Now you're ready to build the system that changes that.
This is one of the most consequential individual-contributor product roles at Altana. You'll set the product direction for how Altana becomes the operating infrastructure for trusted trade — the platform governments reach for when they need to know not just what crossed a border, but why it matters — and you'll do it through deep customer work, sharp product instincts, and influence across the teams you partner with.
You Will
Redefine What Governments Can See
- Own the product direction for how Altana is deployed to governments, meeting them across their varied geographies, security, and compliance boundaries.
- Shape how governments approach economic security as well as intra-agency and inter-agency collaboration on these problems.
- Drive the platform and architecture decisions that let Altana serve the needs of multiple governments.
- Partner closely with our other product areas to define and deliver our core mission sets in ways that work for public sector users.
Modernize Trade Facilitation
- Help government customers move beyond paper-based trusted trader programs to real-time, data-driven compliance monitoring that scales with global trade volumes.
- Define automated validation tools that close the "Tax Gap" — catching duty evasion, misdeclared origin, and undervaluation without slowing the flow of legitimate commerce.
- Own the integration layer: high-volume REST APIs, EDI pipelines, and configurable connections to customs management systems that make Altana feel like a native capability, not another integration project.
Power Economic Security at Scale
- Define a new product capability around economic security — giving government users the analytical tools to understand supply chain concentration, map strategic dependencies, model the impact of tariff and export control policy, and coordinate with allied governments on shared risk.
- Build the "Policy Workbench" that allows trade analysts, national security staff, and senior policymakers to move from raw supply chain data to defensible, evidence-based conclusions — about a sector, a country, a company, or a critical input.
- Work across the U.S. interagency and with Altana's international government customers to ensure the platform supports the full spectrum of economic security missions — from forced labor enforcement to critical mineral mapping to allied supply chain coordination.
Sharpen Enforcement Intelligence
- Move customs agencies beyond simple rule-matching. Define AI-driven targeting products that analyze the network — identifying shell companies, obfuscated ownership, and anomalous trade routes that indicate evasion, illicit trade, or sanctions circumvention.
- Design the "Investigator Workbench" used by officers to review high-risk shipments, gather evidence, collaborate across agencies, and build cases that hold up.
- Own pre-screening logic that identifies risk before it reaches the border — so that enforcement resources are spent where they matter most.
Set Direction and Multiply Impact
- Set the product strategy and roadmap across trade facilitation, enforcement, and economic security — balancing near-term customer impact against the long-term platform bets that matter most.
- Partner closely with engineering, design, data science, and government affairs to translate policy mandates and operational realities into product capabilities that work at the scale governments require.
- Be the connective tissue between Altana's enterprise product work and its government missions — ensuring that what enterprises submit and what governments receive tells a coherent, trusted story.
- Raise the bar for how the broader product team approaches public sector problems — through the specs you write, the prototypes you build, and the way you frame the hardest problems.
Who You Are
You understand how governments actually work. You've spent 8+ years at the intersection of trade policy, intelligence, customs enforcement, or border security technology, not as a vendor pitching into government, but as someone who understood the operational constraints, the data limitations, and the political realities from the inside. You know the difference between a manifest and an entry summary. You've seen how targeting decisions get made, and you understand why the systems that support them weren't built for what's being asked of them today.