Senior Product Manager
Own the strategy and delivery of mission-planning products for autonomous, multi-domain systems. The role requires strong product management experience, military mission-planning knowledge, technical fluency, and direct engagement with operators and government stakeholders.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own product strategy, roadmap, and requirements for mission-planning software.
- Represent operators by working with warfighters, mission planners, and government stakeholders to understand workflows and unmet needs.
- Define workflows for mission creation, course-of-action development, planning, tasking, coordination, visualization, validation, execution, monitoring, and dynamic replanning across autonomous and multi-domain systems.
- Translate mission objectives, workflows, technical constraints, and customer requirements into product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and engineering priorities.
- Convert one-off program requirements into scalable, repeatable product capabilities across customers and missions.
- Partner with Engineering and Design through discovery, prototyping, development, integration, field deployment, validation, and iteration.
- Drive product decisions involving autonomy, command and control, communications, networking, sensors, payloads, platforms, and ground control stations.
- Evaluate interoperability requirements with government systems, mission-planning tools, ground control stations, data formats, interfaces, and operational workflows.
- Participate in field exercises, demonstrations, integration events, testing, and customer deployments.
- Define and measure success using planning speed, operator workload, feasibility validation, risk identification, mission-plan quality, execution, adoption, feedback, and mission outcomes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 5+ years of product management or technical product management experience owning complex, mission-critical software or integrated hardware/software products.
- At least 2 years in a dedicated Product Manager role.
- U.S. citizenship due to ITAR requirements and ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance.
- Experience delivering and scaling field-deployed, mission-critical, or operationally complex software products.
- End-to-end product ownership from user research and strategy through design, development, deployment, adoption, and iteration.
- Direct knowledge of military mission-planning and execution workflows.
- Hands-on familiarity with JMPS, FalconView, PFPS, ground control station software, or comparable DoD planning and execution tools.
- Understanding of mission planning, command and control, platform tasking, autonomous behaviors, and mission execution.
- Strong product discovery, user research, technical fluency, and systems-level thinking.
- Ability to translate complex operational and customer requirements into actionable product priorities.
- Strong product judgment and ability to make difficult prioritization decisions.
Compensation and Benefits
- Hybrid role in Austin, TX, with a preference for at least three days per week on site.
- Travel of 15% or less.
- DoD clearance sponsorship is available.
Skills
Product Management, Mission Planning, Command And Control, Autonomy, Ground Control Stations, Jmps, Falconview, Pfps, Qgroundcontrol, User Research, Product Strategy, Systems Thinking, Interoperability, Dod Security Clearance, Mission Execution
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