Building a better world for humans.
Hey, I’m Jackson Higgins 👻
I am a senior product engineering manager in San Francisco. I work at Ohalo, an agricultural biotech company, on industrial systems and automation.
In my current role, I own the product area that connects plant breeding to commercial-scale seed production. It includes greenhouses, processing equipment and the software that tracks each plant. I like solving hard problems, working in cross-functional teams, and building technology that improves people’s lives. I’m passionate about energy, sustainability, health, and technology.
What I do
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Product Management
I lead engineering teams. I find and scope features, and I build cool software.
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Data Strategy & Analytics
I build and manage systems that ingest and model data. I turn that data into useful insights.
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AI-Enabled Product Design
I lead prompt engineering and AI agent development. I also build integrated chat interfaces.
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Technical Fluency
I speak the language of each group: engineers, data scientists, end users, client relations and leadership.
Work & education · 2015–Now
My journey so far
Senior Product Engineering Manager, Industrial Systems & Automation
Ohalo Genetics · Agricultural biotech
Own the product area that connects potato, maize and strawberry breeding to commercial-scale seed production, covering greenhouses, growth pods, processing equipment and the software that tracks every plant through them.
Data Product Manager
Cohesion · Smart building SaaS
Lead PM for the full product suite and owner of Savvy, the analytics platform that helps building teams make decisions on space, HVAC, access and energy. Built Savvy AI to make that data conversational.
Product Manager
Inventive Works · Custom software consultancy
Discovered, built and launched SaaS products for clients, from early-stage MVPs to UX overhauls.
Associate Product Manager
WennSoft · Building analytics and field service SaaS
Built an energy analytics module for a fault detection platform, turning raw building data into actionable insights, and redesigned onboarding.
Industrial Engineer
The Boeing Company · Aerospace manufacturing
Led production optimization on the Boeing 777X, using real-time operations modeling to break bottlenecks on the line.
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.