Senior Product Manager, Forward Deployed

The role

You will own the path from warfighter problems to fielded solutions by embedding with units. You will act as a translation layer between warfighters and engineering teams to design applications, data models, and integrations.

What you will do

• Own warfighter outcomes by embedding with units and learning the mission.
• Build real relationships with warfighters, commanders, staff, and subject matter experts.
• Conduct research in the field to turn observations into clear priorities.
• Connect the fight to the product by mapping users, decisions, workflows, and data.
• Design across the whole stack including applications, data models, and integrations.
• Use the data model as a product tool.
• Design for the tactical edge accounting for network and hardware constraints.
• Pull engineering, design, and other teams together toward coherent answers.
• Make ambiguous problems workable through strategy, workflows, or data flows.
• Lead workshops, working groups, and design sessions.

Required qualifications

• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance.
• 4 to 8 years in product management, product scope definition, or service design, or an equivalent record of turning hard user problems into fielded solutions.
• A track record of translating technical and domain-specific information into narratives, CONOPS, mission threads, and feature definitions.
• Experience doing research and synthesis with users and SMEs, and building a roadmap from what you learn.
• A history of earning trust with non-technical, operational users and partnering with them.
• The ability to balance needs across engineering, data, and business stakeholders.
• Comfort working with people across a wide range of technical backgrounds.
• Willingness to learn technical systems well enough to use them in product decisions.
• Strong facilitation and whiteboarding skills.
• The ability to do your own design work in common tools such as Figma.
• Strong organizational skills and reliability.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time, including to field and training environments.

Nice to have

• Military experience, or direct experience working alongside operational military units.
• A feel for how a unit fights and for Army staff processes, TTPs, and doctrine.
• A range of product experience across internal tools, customer-facing applications, and tools for technical users.
• Working knowledge of data models, system integrations, networking, or distributed and edge systems.
• A self-starter who does well with ambiguity and loose organizational structure.
• Experience fielding capabilities and improving them based on real operational feedback.

Benefits

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

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Their family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.