Senior Software Product Manager, Strategic Defense

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap for key autonomy capabilities with attention to both backend services and interfaces supporting UI-based oversight, explainability, and control.
• Define autonomy behavior and the human-machine interfaces for it — decision authority, operator overrides, engagement constraints, and the safety and controls guardrails that govern automated decision-making.
• Support software execution for this capability in conjunction with engineering: sequence workstreams, surface and resolve cross-team dependencies and blockers, track delivery against plan, and hold engineering, test,…
• Proactively communicate roadmaps, execution status, and goals to stakeholders and manage expectations of delivery. Escalate large trade offs and necessary decision points as needed.
• Operate as the owner of the autonomy capability area. Work with business development, proposal, marketing, and compliance leads to communicate product capabilities externally.
• Work hands-on to deliver new capabilities across the lifecycle of the product, from initial release and onboarding, through day-to-day improvements.
• Work in coordination with engineering and test stakeholders to define and monitor key metrics to measure success, including autonomy performance, safety, and controls behavior in operationally relevant conditions.
• Interview and iterate with defense operators and subject matter experts, develop insights from such interactions, and propagate user needs clearly through the organization.

Job requirements

• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance (Top Secret clearance preferred)
• 3-5 years in software product management, ideally in highly technical areas which may include autonomous systems, AI/ML products, developer solutions, etc.
• Working fluency in autonomy and controls concepts — state estimation, planning, and closed-loop control — sufficient to reason about system behavior and its limits with engineers
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A foundational understanding of back-end web technologies & distributed systems to consider capabilities and limitations
• Demonstrated aptitude for prototyping solutions, including through AI code generation
• Proven ability to decompose and organize technically complex projects in a structured approach
• Demonstrated ability to drive software execution directly — planning, dependency management, and schedule accountability