Product Manager - Digital Proving Grounds

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for DPGs and Axion Sim. Decide what becomes repeatable product and what stays program-specific work.
• Find product-market fit. Run discovery with program offices, test and evaluation organizations, mission engineers, and autonomy vendors.
• Define the sim-to-live workflow. Shape how a team goes from a mission and its concept of operations to test scenarios, then to SIL at scale, HIL rig checkout, LVC, and live events, with results that carry across each…
• Set the simulation roadmap with engineering. Make the calls on fidelity versus speed, sensor and communications modeling, scale to hundreds or thousands of agents, co-simulation with government tools, and a self-serve…
• Build on shared platform components. Work with other Axion product leads so DPGs use common pieces (simulation, campaigns, metrics, jobs) instead of separate versions.
• Write clear requirements and define success metrics. Make the scope trade-offs that keep engineering on the work that matters most for upcoming programs and events.
• Shape the experience with design. Partner with design on the tools that test planners, vendors, and government evaluators use every day.
• Represent the product. Communicate strategy, status, risk, and trade-offs to Applied leadership and to customers. Present at test events, program reviews, and industry events.

Job requirements

• A bachelor's degree in a technical field (Computer Science, Engineering, or related) or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of product management experience shipping complex technical products, including end-to-end ownership of a simulation, test, or engineering platform used by technical teams.
• Deep technical fluency in simulation. You can discuss fidelity, sensor models, determinism, distributed sim at scale, and HIL with engineers, and you know when a sim result is good enough to trust.
• Strong customer research skills. You have learned a new domain by talking to users and watching how they work, including users who are hard to reach (regulated industries, cleared environments, field teams).
• A track record of taking a technical product from custom, per-customer deployments to a repeatable product that customers adopt and renew.
• Comfort as an IC who owns a whole product and drives cross-functional outcomes through influence, not direct reports.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with engineers and with senior government and industry leaders.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen