Senior Product Manager - Defense Autonomy and Perception

requirements into sequenced milestones and deliverable product features aligned to strategic objectives. Enablement & scale: Champion product-led enablement—create configuration patterns and UX/workflows that empower field teams to operate independently and increase unit self-sufficiency. Deliver & iterate: Partner with TPMs and engineering to de-risk delivery, maintain prioritized backlogs, define acceptance criteria, and run retrospectives to continuously improve. Tell the product story: Create concise product narratives to support sales, mission stakeholders, and leadership that explain tradeoffs, impact, and roadmap rationale. What You’ll Bring Proven product leadership with ownership of roadmaps and delivery; domain preference for autonomy/edge AI, IoT, defense/fielded systems, or defense SaaS. Strong technical literacy or engineering background; comfortable partnering with engineering managers/leadership and architects on system tradeoffs. Deep field/customer orientation and experience converting operational feedback into product

requirements. Demonstrated ability to prioritize across a portfolio and to present clear tradeoffs and decisions. Excellent communication and storytelling skills for aligning engineering, business development/sales, mission teams, and leadership. Servant-leader and collaborative mindset: act as a peer to technical leads, support technical program managers, and build trust with sales and field teams. Practical familiarity with product tooling and coordination practices (Jira or similar, RACI, etc.). Willingness to travel; mission-driven.

Bonus: Experience with defense acquisition cycles, autonomy research, plugin/module architectures, or product-led enablement. How you’ll work Context-first: Gather constraints, mission inputs, and market signals before deciding; document assumptions and rationale. Cross-team collaborator: Facilitate pragmatic, respectful alignment across sales, mission, design, engineering, and field teams. Engineer-friendly: Provide clear decision frameworks, acceptance criteria, and tradeoff analyses to help engineers make confident technical choices. Outcome-driven: Define success up front, instrument outcomes, and iterate based on telemetry and field validation. Proactive communicator: Publish roadmaps, PRDs, decision logs, and field readiness artifacts; ensure tools reflect confirmed commitments. Scale enablement: Convert recurring field work into product features, runbooks, and self-service patterns. Success / impact Measured by increased mission effectiveness, field readiness, and adoption across customers. Success looks like prioritized roadmaps backed by market insight, releases that support sales and reduce field friction, engineering choices that balance risk and mission value, and demonstrable progress toward the multi-year vision.

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