About CoLab
At CoLab, we help mechanical engineering teams bring life-changing products to market years sooner.
CoLab is the AI platform for driving stronger engineering decisions. Every design review in CoLab builds a knowledge repository of design feedback, decisions, and lessons learned - which AI agents draw from to flag issues on future designs before they compound. The more your team works in CoLab, the smarter it gets and the faster you arrive at the ideal design. Companies like Ford, Komatsu, and Johnson Controls use CoLab to catch issues earlier, eliminate rework cycles, and bring products to market faster.
Founded in St. John’s, Newfoundland, CoLab has grown quickly from our first customer in 2019 to a rapidly scaling company. We’ve recently been recognized on Deloitte’s Fast 50™ and Fast 500™, and named a Canadian company to watch by The Globe and Mail and Financial Post.
About the Role
As a Senior Product Manager on the Build Viewing team at CoLab, you’ll own one of the most critical and technically challenging parts of our platform, our viewing technologies.
This team is responsible for everything related to rendering and interacting with 2D drawings and 3D CAD models inside CoLab. That includes file loading performance, markup tools, measurement features, and how we integrate and extend our underlying HOOPS SDK. You’ll help define what gets built, why it matters, and how we balance immediate customer needs with long-term product goals.
Although you sit within the product organization, you’ll be fully embedded in the Viewing build team—a close-knit group of engineers with deep technical expertise. Your job is to bring structure and strategic direction to the team, while acting as the connective tissue between customer problems, technical tradeoffs, and product outcomes.
This is a high-impact role with broad ownership across UX, infrastructure, and partner relationships. If you have experience working on complex visualization tools or CAD systems—and want to shape how engineering teams around the world interact with their designs—this could be your next role.
Our Ideal Candidate
- You’re a seasoned PM with a strong technical foundation—ideally in mechanical engineering, CAD, or 3D systems.
- You’ve worked closely with developers on complex product areas, and you’re confident leading through ambiguity.
- You’re fluent in customer pain, technical tradeoffs, and product storytelling.
You’ll thrive in this role if:
- You’ve shipped features in a deeply technical product area—especially one involving 3D viewers, graphics pipelines, or performance optimization.
- You can lead high-trust conversations with engineers, designers, and customer-facing teams.
- You’re curious about how mechanical engineers work and passionate about building tools that make their lives easier.
What You’ll Do
- Own and evolve the product strategy and roadmap for the CoLab Viewer.
- Work day-to-day with the Viewing engineering team to ship performant, reliable, and high-impact features.
- Guide how we handle complex technical tradeoffs—especially around SDK usage, file formats, rendering logic, and scalability.
- Conduct deep user research with mechanical engineers and support teams to uncover pain points and prioritize solutions.
- Write clear, concise product requirements that help the team understand what to build and why it matters.
- Work in tandem with a designer, technical lead and team to plan and deliver value to our customers.
- Partner with 3rd party vendor escalations, evaluate integration opportunities, and drive viewer stability.
- Define success metrics and use data to validate hypotheses, track performance, and drive continuous improvement.
What You’ll Need
- 5+ years of product management experience, ideally in B2B SaaS or technical product environments
- Strong technical foundation, ideally with a background in mechanical engineering or 3D visualization tools
- Proven success managing complex infrastructure or platform areas in a software product
- Experience collaborating directly with senior engineers, TPMs, and external vendors
- Strong written and verbal communication skills—especially when explaining tradeoffs or aligning stakeholders
The Extra Details
Compensation: This is a full-time, permanent position with a competitive compensation package that includes stock options.
Benefits: Extended health and benefits package, including unlimited paid vacation and 5% RRSP matching.
Remote/Hybrid Work: Our main office is in St. John’s, NL, with hybrid and remote work options. This role can be done from anywhere in Canada.
Equity Note
Frequently cited statistics show that people who identify with historically marginalized groups are likely to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to help us break that statistic and apply even if you don’t meet every single qualification—your potential is what matters most to us.
