Director of Product, Core

Arlington, Virginia, United States. Posted 8 days ago

The role

The Director of Product for the Core Platform owns the product strategy for the capabilities the rest of Air is built on. You will set portfolio-level direction, manage business outcomes, and build and grow a team of product managers.

What you will do

Define a platform strategy that connects to customer readiness and business wins
Make portfolio-level trade-offs to keep the platform coherent
Reframe problems and set principles that guide platform decisions
Own measurable outcomes like platform adoption and deployment costs
Shape the data foundation and interfaces
Set direction for cross-organization collaboration
Own the reuse and scale engine for deployments
Rationalize and integrate existing prototypes into durable capabilities
Set patterns for human-AI collaboration across the platform
Recruit and develop a team of product managers

Required qualifications

U.S. Citizenship is required
Track record of owning a product line or platform end to end
Portfolio-level thinking at the scale of a business
Fluency in platform and backend systems concepts
Hands-on fluency with AI products
Experience leading and growing product managers
Experience in enterprise software

Nice to have

Experience building platform or infrastructure products consumed by other product teams
Current possession of a U.S. security clearance, or the ability to obtain one with our sponsorship
Experience designing for defense, government, or public sector

About the company

Air is the leader in Enterprise Readiness. Their AI-native platform aligns development, production, delivery, and sustainment for government agencies and industrial suppliers.