Senior Product Manager, Manufacturing Software

The role

You will own the product strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for factory floor applications. You will work with production operators, supervisors, and manufacturing engineers to deploy software that supports shipbuilding.

What you will do

• Developing a long-term strategy for the manufacturing software domain
• Gathering and refining functional and non-functional requirements
• Synthesizing requirements into a prioritized backlog
• Communicating roadmap and delivery to stakeholders
• Walking the factory floor to talk with technicians and operators
• Navigating organizational dynamics between MDP and partner platform teams
• Exploring and incorporating technologies to enhance operational leverage
• Driving adoption and enablement of manufacturing software

Required qualifications

• 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
• Ability to gather and refine functional and non-functional requirements 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
• Success working directly with end users in operational environments
• Ability to navigate cross-team and cross-department dynamics
• Ability to balance requirements across engineering, design, data, and business stakeholders
• Success decomposing a problem into addressable component parts and arranging the correct sequencing
• Ability to craft product strategy for 6 to 12 months into the future
• Comfort maturing a product from MVP to enterprise-grade production
• Must be able to travel up to 25% of the time

Nice to have

• Experience building or owning manufacturing execution systems (MES), shop floor control systems, or operational software
• Hands-on experience in manufacturing industries with time spent on assembly lines or in production facilities
• Experience with UI / UX web design tools (e.g. Figma)
• Familiarity with frontier AI tooling and AI-assisted software development workflows
• Experience in hyper-growth startup-like environments
• Background in operations research, industrial engineering, lean manufacturing, or continuous improvement methodologies

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees

Before you apply

• U.S. Person status is required
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
• By submitting your application, you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.