Building a better world for humans.
Hey, I’m Jackson Higgins 👻
I’m a senior product engineering manager based in San Francisco.
I work at Ohalo, an agricultural biotech company, and help manage the development of industrial systems and automation for our genetic and plant growth operations. I own the product area that connects plant breeding to commercial-scale seed production. That includes greenhouses, processing equipment and the software that tracks each plant.
I like to solve hard problems with cross-functional teams and build technology that makes people’s lives better.
What I do
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Product for physical operations
At Ohalo I own product for the greenhouses, processing equipment and plant-tracking software behind our seed production. I map how the work actually gets done, decide what we build or buy, and get it rolled out with the teams on the ground.
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Modeling before spending
I build simulations and cost models to test a plan before we put money into it. At Boeing, that analysis kept us from buying a $4M machine we didn’t need.
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Data and AI products
At Cohesion I led Savvy, an analytics and AI platform for commercial buildings. I owned the data model, the dashboards and the AI assistant that answers questions about building data.
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Building my own tools
I write a lot of my own software with AI, for work and for fun. That includes internal tools and models at work, and side projects like a Spotify playlist sorter and a kaleidoscope editor.
Work & education · 2015–Now
My journey so far
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Senior Product Engineering Manager, Industrial Systems & Automation
Ohalo Genetics · Agricultural biotech
I own product for the greenhouses, controlled-environment pods, processing equipment and plant-tracking software that take potato, maize and strawberry breeding to commercial-scale seed production. That includes the processing line and facility design, the plant-tracking rollout, and the cost models behind both.
Data Product Manager
Cohesion · Smart building SaaS
Lead PM for an enterprise smart-building platform across access, experience, maintenance and analytics. I launched Savvy AI, a Databricks lakehouse fed by access control, building automation, occupancy sensors, submeters and utility APIs, with an LLM assistant on top.
Product Manager
Inventive Works · Custom software consultancy
Second product hire. I led discovery, strategy and delivery for B2B and B2C products in healthcare, pet care, education and internal operations, including a B2B2C pet care platform from first workshops to launch.
Product Manager
WennSoft · Building analytics and field service SaaS
Built an energy analytics module for an HVAC fault-detection platform, modeling equipment-level energy from building automation sensors, utility rates and emission factors. I also redesigned onboarding and site setup.
Industrial Engineer, 777X Composite Wing Center
The Boeing Company · Aerospace manufacturing
Owned rate readiness across dozens of interdependent work cells on the 777X. My bottleneck and capacity models guided investment decisions and a facility transformation.
B.S. Industrial Engineering
Purdue University
Studied Industrial Engineering while competing on the Purdue varsity swim team at the Big Ten, US Open and National Championship meets. Received the 2019 Big Ten Swimming & Diving Sportsmanship Award for leadership and academic standing.