Senior Product Manager, Manufacturing Software

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Developing a long-term strategy that navigates complex product tradeoffs, integration dependencies, and buy versus build decisions to push the manufacturing software domain forward
• Gathering and refining both functional requirements and non-functional requirements such as tool capacity, performance, and reliability, and synthesizing them into a prioritized backlog
• Communicating across stakeholders and interested parties on roadmap and delivery, and exercising the judgment to tell whether a stakeholder truly needs what they are asking for or whether the underlying problem is…
• Walking the factory floor, talking directly with technicians and operators about how their work is going, and turning what you hear into opportunities to fix and improve the product
• Navigating the organizational dynamics between Maritime Digital Production and partner platform teams, advocating from the customer point of view when Maritime's needs differ from how a platform team would prefer to…
• Exploring and incorporating technologies that enhance Anduril's operational leverage
• Driving adoption and enablement of manufacturing software across production and operations teams

Job requirements

• 8+ years in a software product management role or similar leading role in product development
• Domain expertise within hardware-related industries such as manufacturing, supply chain, warehousing, or logistics
• Demonstrated ability to gather and refine both functional and non-functional requirements (such as capacity, performance, and reliability) and turn them into a prioritized backlog
• Strong understanding of the interplay between enterprise systems, including ERP, WMS, MES, PLM, and supplier portals
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work with stakeholders across a wide range of technical comfort and to judge whether a request reflects a real underlying need
• Demonstrated success working directly with end users in operational environments, including time spent on a production or factory floor observing workflows firsthand
• Ability to navigate cross-team and cross-department dynamics, representing the customer point of view and building alignment when priorities differ
• Ability to balance requirements across engineering, design, data, and business stakeholders