Senior Product Manager, Forward Deployed

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own warfighter outcomes, not features. Embed with units, learn the mission, find the problems that matter most, and own them through development, fielding, and the work that comes after.
• Build real relationships with the people in the fight. Earn the trust of warfighters, commanders, staff, and subject matter experts.
• Do the research in the field. Learn by watching, asking questions, and taking part in real workflows. Turn what you learn into clear priorities.
• Connect the fight to the product. Map the users, decisions, workflows, systems, data, and dependencies behind an outcome, and use that to drive what gets built and integrated.
• Design across the whole stack. Do not default to a new app or a new screen. Work out whether an outcome needs an application change, a new or richer data model, an integration, a workflow that spans applications, or a…
• Use the data model as a product tool. Get to know what data exists, how it is represented, where it comes from, who uses it, and what has to change to make a workflow possible.
• Design for the tactical edge. Understand how the network and the hardware affect what the user sees and does. Account for degraded conditions, bandwidth, latency, and compute when you define a solution.
• Pull the right people together. Get warfighters, engineering, design, and the other teams around the same problem, and drive them toward one coherent answer.

Job requirements

• Bias for Action. You ask for forgiveness, not permission, and you hate waiting around to be told what to do.
• Outcome-Oriented. You figure out what the business needs and work backward from there.
• Customer Focused. You have real empathy for users and build things they actually want to use.
• Dive Deep. You sweat the details and get into the weeds to find the root cause of a problem.
• Ownership. You care about your products and about everything the business depends on them for. You hold yourself accountable for what your systems do and for what they fail to do.
• Agility. You change direction without drama when the priorities change.
• First Principles Thinking. You solve problems based on what is actually best here, not because a vendor recommended it or because it is how your last company did it.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance.