# Product Manager

**Company:** [Forterra](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/forterra)
**Location:** Clarksburg, MD
**Role:** Product Management
**Salary:** $145k – $165k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Product Management, Release Management, Product Strategy, Autonomous Vehicles, Autonomy Software, Tactical Communications, Data Platforms, Edge Computing, Firmware, Configuration Management, Agile, Jira, Robotics
**Posted:** 2026-09-09

> Own the integrated release baseline for an autonomous vehicle and hardware ecosystem, coordinating multiple engineering teams and ensuring products are stable, supported, and aligned with customer needs. Requires 5+ years of product management experience and strong technical, cross-functional execution skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the supported product baseline, release contents, release cadence, and inclusion criteria across autonomy software, tactical communications, data platforms, edge-compute hardware, third-party firmware, and COTS components.
- Evaluate candidate products and revisions, guide in/out release decisions, document tradeoffs, and communicate decisions under pressure.
- Create compatibility matrices, diagrams, decision records, release notes, and dependency documentation.
- Align engineering, programs, product leadership, growth, executives, and customers around shared outcomes.
- Define release-health metrics and use lab and field results to improve subsequent releases.
- Maintain configuration documentation covering versions, compatibility, dependencies, and supported capabilities.
- Escalate scope, timeline, and resourcing risks early.
- Communicate what is released, supported, and enabled, including demonstrations for internal and customer audiences.
- Travel up to 25% for field testing, customer deployments, and workshops.

## Requirements
- 5–8+ years of product management experience, ideally with defense products.
- Ability to operate strategically and tactically, connecting business goals with technical execution.
- Experience owning a release, baseline, or integrated product across multiple engineering teams and deciding what ships.
- Technical fluency sufficient to earn engineers’ trust, assess feasibility, and engage in technical discussions.
- Strong product judgment connecting field needs and platform constraints to engineering priorities.
- Experience with high-performance, safety-critical, and robust product-development systems.
- Clear communication across engineers, executives, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Rigorous execution focused on real-world user outcomes.

## Preferred Qualifications
- Military background or defense product-management experience.
- Background in autonomy, robotics, or software engineering.
- Experience in fast-paced or startup environments, particularly building 0-to-1 products.
- Familiarity with Agile environments and Jira.

## Compensation
- Annual salary: $145,000–$165,000 USD.
- Equity is included in most full-time, high-demand roles.
- Benefits include healthcare options, company-paid life and disability insurance, paid holidays and PTO, paid parental leave, tuition or professional-development reimbursement, and a 401(k) with company match.

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