Full-Time

Senior Product Manager Platform

Posted on 10/31/2025

Copia Automation

Copia Automation

51-200 employees

Git-based version control for PLC programming

Compensation Overview

$152k - $195k/yr

New York, NY, USA

Hybrid

Category
Product (2)
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Requirements
  • 5-7 years of hands-on product management experience, with at least 2 years focused on platform or infrastructure products. Ideally, you have experience in fast-paced product organizations or high-growth startups
  • You thrive in a startup environment and are resourceful, adaptable, and execution-driven
  • You create clarity out of ambiguity
  • You're an excellent communicator, skilled at aligning various stakeholders around immediate objectives and deliverables
  • Your low ego makes you receptive to feedback and agile in adjusting plans
  • You have experience delivering self-hosted, on-prem, or hybrid enterprise software
  • You have strong technical acumen—you can engage deeply with engineering on infrastructure, deployment models, and system design tradeoffs
  • You’ve proven your ability to translate technical capabilities into customer and business value
  • You have experience working with enterprise customers and balancing requirements across security, compliance, and scalability
Responsibilities
  • Working with the Head of Product, you'll develop actionable hypotheses that guide our product initiatives, contributing to product roadmaps and strategy
  • In partnership with engineering, you’ll prioritize and manage the project backlog in alignment with the product roadmap.
  • You’ll work closely with engineering to define requirements and create specifications for new projects or features
  • You will manage customer feedback channels and market research activities, using data to validate or adjust product iterations
  • You will work cross functionally with marketing, success, and engineering for product launch planning. Own the platform roadmap: Define and prioritize initiatives that improve performance, reliability, security, and extensibility of Copia’s core platform
  • Lead the self-hosted product experience: Be responsible for the installation, configuration, and ongoing deployment experience of Copia’s self-hosted offerings
  • Drive cross-functional impact: Partner with other product teams (Source Control, DeviceLink, Copilot) to identify common platform needs and deliver shared solutions
  • Scale enterprise readiness: Ensure Copia meets the requirements of large enterprise customers (e.g., SSO/IAM, compliance, scalability, observability)
  • Customer & stakeholder engagement: Act as both an internal platform advocate and an external product expert, working directly with enterprise customers, solution engineers, and leadership
  • Metrics & outcomes: Establish KPIs for platform adoption, reliability, and customer success with self-hosted deployments; measure impact on retention and customer satisfaction
Desired Qualifications
  • Background in industrial automation, manufacturing systems, or OT/IT convergence
  • Experience building or managing self-hosted SaaS platforms
  • Familiarity with Git-based workflows, DevOps, or cybersecurity practices
  • Familiarity with Kanban style Agile methodology

Copia Automation provides a Git-based version control system tailored for PLC programming, combining source-control discipline with automated safeguards for industrial control code. Engineers store PLC programs in a Git-like repository, commit changes with context, and review updates using visual diffs, while DeviceLink continuously backs up running programs and shows change history in a central dashboard. Unlike general software versioning tools, Copia targets system integrators, machine designers, and in-house ops teams with a built-in workflow plus automatic backups for live control software. Its goal is to standardize PLC development, improve collaboration, boost operational reliability, and speed recovery after disruptions.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$18.4M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2020

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Danieli Automation partnership drives global Industrial DevOps adoption.
  • Engineers lose 45 hours monthly debugging Excel, boosting Copia demand.
  • Supports Schneider Control Expert and B&R Automation Studio vendors.

What critics are saying

  • Danieli builds competing PLC version control in 12-24 months.
  • Schneider embeds native Git in Control Expert within 12-18 months.
  • Microsoft launches PLC Copilot, eliminating Copia in 24-36 months.

What makes Copia Automation unique

  • Copia adapts Git version control specifically for PLC programming.
  • DeviceLink™ automates backups and detects unauthorized PLC changes.
  • Copia Copilot uses AI for code documentation and translation.

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Benefits

Hybrid Work Options

Relocation Assistance

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

1%

1 year growth

-1%

2 year growth

-1%
Automation.com
Sep 15th, 2025
Copia Automation Partners With Danieli Automation DIGI&MET to Drive Industrial DevOps Innovation Globally

NEW YORK and BUTTRIO, Italy, Sept. 10, 2025 - Copia Automation, the leading Industrial DevOps platform for manufacturing and distribution, has announced a strategic partnership with Danieli Automation DIGI&MET, a global leader in plant-making for the metals industry.

Copia Automation
Feb 12th, 2025
The Hidden Cost of Excel: 45 Hours of Debugging Lost Every Month

Copia's 1st Annual State of Industrial DevOps Workforce Report: People, Process, and the AI-Powered Future exposes this inefficiency and calls for a shift towards Industrial DevOps to address the skills gap and meet evolving employee needs.

PR Newswire
Nov 19th, 2024
Copia Automation Launches Ai-Powered Tool To Revolutionize Industrial Code Management

NEW YORK, Nov. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Copia Automation, the Industrial DevOps Platform and leader in AI for Industrial Code, is proud to announce the launch of Copia Copilot, an AI-powered tool designed to transform the way Controls Engineers write, manage, and document industrial code. As the first step in Copia's vision of integrating AI into industrial automation, Copia Copilot enhances productivity, efficiency, and quality by automating routine coding tasks, simplifying complex processes, and equipping industrial workers with the tools they need for successful knowledge transfer and onboarding. Copia Copilot introduces a new era of AI-driven solutions by providing engineers with powerful features like code documentation, code translation, and intelligent code modification. These capabilities make it easier than ever for OT (Operational Technology) engineers to streamline their development processes, reduce downtime, and maintain high standards of quality, security, and compliance. "With the launch of Copia Copilot, we are taking a major step forward in our mission to bring cutting edge tooling to industrial automation and controls engineering with our new AI code generation and code analysis tool," said Adam Gluck, Founder and CEO of Copia Automation. "Our goal is to transform the way manufacturers and distributors manage industrial code

PR Newswire
Dec 5th, 2023
Copia Automation Applauded By Frost Sullivan For Its User-Friendly, Intuitive, And Easy-To-Use Programmable Logic Controller Solutions

Copia's Git-based PLC tech solutions speed up programming, support collaboration, track code changes, and are reliable enough for adoption in large-scale operations.SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, Frost & Sullivan researched the programmable logic controller (PLC) solutions industry and, based on its analysis, recognizes Copia Automation with the 2023 Global Technology Innovation Leadership Award. The company's Git-based version control product is quickly becoming the new gold standard for the PLC solutions market. The cloud-based, vendor-agnostic solution integrates with large PLC environments and empowers code tracking to help control engineers understand how and why the code has evolved, making collaboration seamless. It helps new engineers get up to speed on new assignments as they join ongoing projects. Copia expanded its offering, providing much-desired value to customers through restore points and quick identification of code changes to analyze its effectiveness.Copia is a pioneer in bringing modern DevOps to industrial automation and process control, firmly believing that Git is the future of the industrial manufacturing landscape

PR Newswire
Dec 5th, 2023
Copia Automation Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for Its User-friendly, Intuitive, and Easy-to-use Programmable Logic Controller Solutions India - English USA - English

SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Recently, Frost & Sullivan researched the programmable logic controller (PLC) solutions industry and, based on its analysis, recognizes Copia Automation with the 2023 Global Technology Innovation Leadership Award.

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