Senior Product Manager
Defense Unicorns
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Role Description:
We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy, planning and delivery of our AI-powered, edge-deployed product line. You will collaborate with a talented team, stay at the forefront of industry trends, and help bring next-level capabilities to Mission Heroes (customers). You will own the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and implementation, ensuring alignment with both customer needs and company objectives. This role requires a unique blend of collaboration across business segments, technical expertise, and a deep understanding of embedded systems. You will be responsible for facilitating a cross-functional team of engineering, design, and marketing experts to deliver a platform that enables accelerated innovation within mission-critical capabilities.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the vision and product strategy for a new product line, driving growth and innovation, and ensuring alignment with company objectives and customer needs
- Own the product roadmap, bringing together market needs, customer feedback, technology research, architecture and engineering into a cohesive plan to drive the business
- Work closely with a Product Designer to architect and design an intuitive platform that meets the unique needs of defense personnel and contractors
- Build strategic relationships with internal and external stakeholders to understand capabilities, needs and preferences
- Develop comprehensive go-to-market plans to effectively launch and promote solutions in the market
- Present product updates and strategic insights in customer-facing engagements, ensuring clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Develop business cases for investments, including new features, extensions, and products
- Monitor and optimize product financials and track usage and adoption key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure sustainable profitability and growth
Travel Expectations/Requirements: 5-15%
Location Expectations: Hybrid 3 days in the office in Phoenix, Arizona
The listed responsibilities are not exhaustive and additional responsibilities may be assigned based on the evolving needs of the organization. We are seeking a dynamic individual who is able to adapt and take on new responsibilities as they arise.
Preferred Experience and Qualifications:
- Demonstrated product management experience in the following areas:
- 5+ years in embedded electronic systems (hardware and software) product management
- Translating business strategy into product strategy
- Establishing and maintaining product roadmaps
- Creating and managing product requirements for Engineering
- Executing product launches and sales enablement campaigns
- Performing competitive analysis and providing inputs to marketing on product differentiation
- Manage all aspects of in-life products, including customer feedback, requirements, and issues
Amazing To Haves
- Product Management certification (e.g., Pragmatic or other)
- Technical background in embedded hardware or software development
- Experience with and empathy for the National Security mission and challenges faced in delivering solutions that drive mission capabilities
Full compensation packages are based on candidate experience. Compensation ranges are established using national benchmarking data and apply across all geographic locations within the United States.
Who We Are
Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges. We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation. Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user experience and optionality, without compromising security. Our team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market.
What We Do
We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery. Defense Unicorns consolidates the best practices for security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation in order to meet the high security requirements valued by mission owners. Our solutions are agnostic by design and we believe that growing a robust ecosystem of secure, cloud-native software solutions can help enterprise customers inside and outside the federal market buy and integrate software more easily.
Who We Serve
Defense Unicorns’ customers are mission-focused leaders across public and private enterprises. We proudly support defense and civil agencies across the U.S. government and we work closely with the creators of leading-edge software solutions to deliver value to the mission-owner by improving the security and consumability of commercial software products.
What We Work On
- Kubernetes
- Cloud Environments (AWS/GCP and Azure)
- Infrastructure-as-code (like Terraform/Pulumi)
- Continuous Delivery and automation tooling
- GitOps
- Containers
- CNCF projects and open source products and packages
- Helm/Kustomize-Value Stream Mapping
- Building and improving security delivery
- Building Kubernetes and cloud native applications
Benefits Our Unicorns Enjoy
Health:
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Premiums are 100% Company Paid
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
Financial:
- 401k with Employer Contribution (Regardless of Employee Contribution)
- Company Stock Options
- Home Office Setup Budget
Leave:
- Unlimited paid time off, with a mandatory 10 days off on top of 11 federal government holidays, week of Thanksgiving, last two weeks of December (including New Year’s Day)
- Paid Parental Leave
Learning:
- Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
- Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)
Don’t have all the preferred experience or qualifications? Studies show that underrepresented groups like women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs if they don't meet every requirement listed.
At Defense Unicorns, we're committed to diversity. If you're enthusiastic about the role but don't match every criteria, we encourage you to apply. You could be the perfect fit for this or another role! Defense Unicorns is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
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