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Job Summary:
Altana is the network for trusted trade, empowering governments and businesses to enhance global commerce. As the Principal Product Manager for Customs & Border Authorities, you will lead the product vision and strategy, focusing on improving trade workflows for customs and border agencies worldwide.
Responsibilities:
• Own the product vision for how Altana is deployed to customs, border, and revenue authorities — meeting each agency where it is across varied geographies, legal regimes, sovereignty requirements, and levels of digital maturity.
• Unify our platform and architecture so a single core capability set can serve many governments while honoring each authority’s sovereign control over its own data and business logic.
• Shape how authorities collaborate — within an agency, across agencies, and with trusted trading partners abroad — to build safer, more efficient, and more collaborative trade workflows.
• Partner closely with Altana’s enterprise product areas so that what traders submit and what authorities receive tells one coherent, trusted story.
• Own the product vision for the Altana Passport Manager, which lets border authorities review product passports and apply their own sovereign business logic — powered by Altana’s robust data, ML models, and AI — to pre-clear goods before they ever reach the border.
• Move authorities beyond paper-based trusted-trader programs toward real-time, data-driven pre-clearance that scales with global trade volumes.
• Build the tooling that lets each authority encode, test, and govern its own rules and risk logic on top of Altana’s network intelligence — without writing code and without ceding control of its data.
• Own the Altana Entry Processing System, which integrates with and augments an agency’s existing targeting systems to deliver AI-driven entry review on streaming entries — applying Altana’s most sophisticated AI and ML while meeting the low-latency demands of live trade.
• Own the integration layer: high-volume REST APIs, EDI pipelines, and configurable connections to customs management and targeting systems that make Altana feel like a native capability, not another integration project.
• Ensure the system augments rather than rips out — earning trust by improving the targeting and workflows agencies already depend on.
• Own the Altana Trade Enforcement Suite, giving customs, border, and revenue agencies the ability to screen for the full spectrum of enforcement and revenue threats, including:
• Enforcement: counternarcotics, forced labor, trade-based money laundering, and trade diversion.
• Revenue: undervaluation, illegal transshipment and country-of-origin (COO) laundering, and HS misclassification.
• Move agencies beyond simple rule-matching to AI-driven, network-aware targeting — surfacing shell companies, obfuscated ownership, and anomalous trade routes that indicate evasion, illicit trade, or sanctions circumvention.
• Deliver a suite of customizable targeting models that each border authority can tailor to its own priorities, threat picture, and legal authorities.
• Design the investigator-facing workflows officers use to review high-risk shipments, gather evidence, collaborate across teams and agencies, and build cases that hold up.
• Set the product strategy and roadmap across pre-clearance, entry processing, and enforcement — balancing near-term agency impact against the long-term platform bets that matter most.
• Partner closely with engineering, design, data science, and government affairs and our private sector product and engineering teams to translate policy mandates and operational realities into product capabilities that work at the scale and latency border agencies require.
• Build a culture of 'show, don’t tell' — a team that defines system interfaces, drafts API specs, and prototypes workflows before production code is written, and that ships things that work in the real world.
Qualifications:
Required:
• You understand how customs and border authorities actually work.
• You think in networks, not transactions.
• You can hold policy and product in your head at the same time.
• You build for many authorities, not one.
• You lead teams that build, not just describe.
• You’re tech-enabled and obsessed with UX.
Preferred:
• 8+ years of experience in customs enforcement, border security technology, trade compliance, or trade facilitation
• 7+ years of product management experience, ideally spanning complex enterprise or government systems
• Direct experience with customs agency operations, trusted-trader/pre-clearance programs, or trade facilitation modernization initiatives — in the U.S. or internationally
• Familiarity with targeting systems, risk scoring, and enforcement workflow design in a customs, border, or law enforcement context
• Working knowledge of trade data structures: entry summaries, manifests, advance ship notices, HS/HTS classification, and country-of-origin determinations
• Experience with revenue protection (undervaluation, transshipment/COO laundering, HS misclassification) and/or enforcement missions (counternarcotics, forced labor, TBML, trade diversion) is a strong plus
• Experience delivering products across multiple countries or agencies, including emerging-market contexts, is a plus
• Prior experience with API-based integrations, data pipeline architecture, or enterprise system implementation
• Eligibility for a U.S. security clearance, or an existing clearance / CBP background investigation, is a plus (see flagged note above)
Company:
Altana is the AI network where businesses, logistics providers and governments are rearchitecting global trade. Founded in 2018, the company is headquartered in New York, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.