# Product Manager

**Company:** [Applied Intuition](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/applied-intuition)
**Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
**Role:** Product Management
**Salary:** $200k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Product Management, Roadmapping, requirements definition, zonal architecture, hardware-software integration, systems of systems, customer discovery, technical literacy, dod acquisition, legacy system integration
**Posted:** 2026-07-23

> Product Manager owning vision, strategy, and roadmap for DefenseOS, a zonal naval warship operating system adapted from commercial VehicleOS. Lead customer discovery with Navy stakeholders, define architecture integrations with legacy combat/HM&E systems, and drive prioritization/trade-offs as an IC partnering with engineering and design. Requires 8+ years PM experience on complex hardware-software platforms and US Top Secret clearance eligibility.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for DefenseOS, adapting Applied's commercial VehicleOS into a navy warship operating system for unmanned surface vessels and traditional surface combatants.
- Lead customer and user discovery with Navy program offices, operators, and crews to translate operational needs, acquisition requirements, and field constraints into a prioritized product roadmap.
- Define product strategy for zonal architecture (location-based zone controllers and centralized compute replacing federated, domain-based design), including integration with legacy defense-unique systems (combat, communications, HM&E subsystems) built by primes lacking modern software and data interfaces.
- Write clear requirements, define success metrics, and make prioritization and scope trade-offs to focus engineering on highest-value work.
- Partner closely with engineering, hardware/integration, design, and operations to sequence delivery across simulation, integration lab, and live-platform testing.
- Own trade-offs between speed, quality, and scope under acquisition and field constraints.
- Work with design to shape operator interfaces and workflows grounded in actual crew operations.
- Partner with defense customers and shipbuilders/integrators, translating needs into the roadmap.
- Communicate product strategy, status, risk, and trade-offs to senior leadership and external stakeholders; provide product input into program and business decisions.
- Build feedback loops from usage signals, customer input, and program data to justify investment and shape the roadmap.

## Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field (Computer Science, Engineering, or related) or equivalent experience; advanced degree or deep technical background a plus.
- 8+ years of product management experience shipping complex technical products, including owning a product line end to end (ideally platforms spanning hardware and software, real-time/embedded, or systems-of-systems).
- Demonstrated ability to own a product end to end as an individual contributor: vision, roadmap, requirements, prioritization, launch, and iteration against measurable outcomes.
- Thrives as an IC, driving cross-functional outcomes through influence rather than managing direct reports.
- Strong technical literacy to engage credibly with engineers on architecture trade-offs (e.g., zonal vs. federated domain architectures, hardware/software integration, interfaces and data flow) and make informed scope decisions.
- Experience defining product strategy for integrating with legacy, proprietary, or closed third-party systems lacking modern software and data interfaces.
- Skilled at customer and user discovery: translating ambiguous operational problems into clear, prioritized requirements.
- Comfort in a fast-paced, highly ambiguous environment; ability to make and defend trade-offs between speed, quality, and scope.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including clear status, risk, and decision communication to senior leadership.
- US citizenship required; must already hold, or be eligible to receive, an active US Top Secret security clearance upon onboarding.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Product management (or equivalent) experience on software-defined vehicles or analogous platforms where zonal architecture and centralized compute replaced distributed, domain-based controllers.
- Familiarity with naval/maritime subsystems (combat, C5I, HM&E), DoD acquisition and requirements processes, and delivery in regulated environments (RMF/ATO, IL5/IL6); prior naval or operational experience a plus.

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