Senior Software Product Manager

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Washington, DC · AFS : Discovery Engineering : BladeRunner

Product Manager for a defense technology company, focusing on missile defense backend services and user interface. The role involves shaping product roadmaps, translating warfighter needs into specifications, and working with cross-functional teams to deliver AI/ML-enabled defense capabilities. Requires a strong understanding of backend web technologies and distributed systems, with a preference for defense domain familiarity and experience with AI/ML products.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the product roadmap for key missile defense backend services and user interface, translating high-level strategic objectives and urgent warfighter needs into detailed, actionable product roadmaps and specifications.
  2. Proactively communicate roadmaps and goals to stakeholders and manage expectations of delivery. Escalate large trade offs and necessary decision points as needed.
  3. Work with business development, proposal, marketing, and compliance leads to communicate product capabilities externally. Participate in large-scale customer exercises and demonstrations.
  4. Work hands-on to deliver new capabilities across the lifecycle of the product, from initial release and onboarding, through day-to-day improvements. Validate and experiment along the way, acting as the voice of the user throughout.
  5. Define and monitor key metrics to measure success.

Skills

Required

  • 3-5 years in software product development
  • deep understanding of back-end web technologies & distributed systems
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Aptitude for working with internal and external stakeholders
  • Proven ability to decompose and organize technically complex projects
  • Demonstrated success decomposing a problem into addressable component parts
  • Proven ability to motivate cross functional teams
  • U.S. Person status
  • Ability to travel

Nice to have

  • Defense, national security, or aerospace domain familiarity
  • Experience working in a developer focused product team
  • Experience supporting test design and execution for technically complex, combined hardware/software systems
  • Experience with text planning and execution for combined hardware/software systems
  • Demonstrated interest in code generation technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • U.S. Top Secret security clearance
  • defense, national security, or aerospace domain familiarity