Product Manager - DefenseOS

The role

You will own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for DefenseOS, a defense operating system for navy warships. You will drive the product through customer discovery, requirements definition, and prioritization while partnering with engineering, design, and operations.

What you will do

• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for DefenseOS
• Lead customer and user discovery with Navy program offices, operators, and crews
• Define product strategy for a zonal architecture and integration with existing defense systems
• Write clear requirements and define success metrics
• Make prioritization and scope trade-offs
• Partner with engineering, hardware/integration, and operations to sequence delivery
• Work with design to shape operator interfaces and workflows
• Partner with defense customers and shipbuilders/integrators
• Communicate product strategy, status, risk, and trade-offs to senior leadership
• Build feedback loops using usage signals, customer input, and program data

Required qualifications

• 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
• Ability to own a product end to end as an individual contributor
• Strong technical literacy regarding architecture trade-offs and hardware/software integration
• Experience defining product strategy for integrating with legacy, proprietary, or closed third-party systems
• Skilled at customer and user discovery
• Comfort in a fast-paced, highly ambiguous environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• US citizenship is required

Nice to have

• Advanced degree or deep technical background
• Product management experience on software-defined vehicles or analogous platforms with zonal architecture
• Familiarity with naval/maritime subsystems (combat, C5I, HM&E)
• DoD acquisition and requirements processes
• Delivery in regulated environments (RMF/ATO, IL5/IL6)
• Prior naval or operational experience

Benefits

• Base salary
• Equity (options and/or restricted stock units)
• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance coverage
• 401k retirement benefits with employer match
• Learning and wellness stipends
• Paid time off

Before you apply

• US citizenship is required
• Must hold, or be eligible to receive, an active US Top Secret security clearance upon onboarding

About the company

Applied Intuition, Inc. is a Silicon Valley company creating digital infrastructure for physical AI. It services automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries.