Staff Technical Product Manager

You Will

• Own the product roadmap and execution for one or more product areas within Global Defense, driving what gets built and how it ships
• Be hands-on: write specs, prototype solutions, dig into technical architecture with engineers, and make product calls grounded in real technical understanding
• Design and ship AI-powered products and tooling for defense and national security workflows, working side-by-side with engineering and ML teams
• Use customer context to inform what you build — understand allied defense workflows deeply enough to make opinionated product decisions, not just relay requirements
• Navigate the unique constraints of defense product development across allied nations — classification environments, accreditation processes, air-gapped deployments — or be ready to learn these fast
• Operate like a founding team member: wear multiple hats, move fast, unblock yourself, and drive outcomes across engineering, operations, and go-to-market

Ideally, You’d Have

• Builder mentality: you’re energized by going from zero to one, not by managing from a distance
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, ML engineering, or a deeply technical product role where you were hands-on with what shipped
• Technical fluency: software engineering or ML background (master’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience). Experience training or evaluating models is a plus
• Deep intellectual curiosity about AI systems — you read papers, dig into technical details, and have strong opinions about how things should be built
• Enough customer instinct to know what matters, but your default mode is building, not selling
• Bias for action and comfort wearing multiple hats in fast-moving environments
• Willingness to travel to allied partner nations as needed