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Job Summary:
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company dedicated to enhancing military capabilities through advanced technology. They are seeking a Staff Product Manager to lead the development and success of a multi-domain command and control platform, focusing on product strategy, cross-functional execution, and user-centric development.
Responsibilities:
• Define and drive the product vision, roadmap, priorities, and long-term strategy for the platform.
• Balance investments across operator workflows, integrations, scalability, analytics, permissions, reliability, and mission capabilities.
• Translate customer, operator, and field feedback into actionable product strategy and engineering-ready requirements.
• Establish product milestones, KPIs, and success metrics aligned to operational outcomes.
• Drive coordination and execution across front-end engineering, back-end engineering, platform infrastructure, UX, deployment operations, and program management teams.
• Establish operational cadences for roadmap reviews, execution tracking, dependency management, and release coordination.
• Partner closely with deployment leads, program managers, and customer stakeholders to support fielding, integration, and operational rollout activities.
• Identify and manage technical, operational, and organizational risks across the product lifecycle.
• Partner closely with UXR teams, operators, deployment teams, and mission users to understand workflows, pain points, and operational needs.
• Help shape the product experience, workflow design, interaction models, and operational usability of the platform.
• Work directly with front-end and back-end engineering teams to inform product architecture, UI behavior, information hierarchy, and system interactions.
• Ensure roadmap priorities are grounded in real operational workflows and mission outcomes.
• Advocate for intuitive, scalable, and highly responsive user experiences within complex operational environments.
• Drive the integration roadmap across sensors, autonomy systems, mission applications, communications infrastructure, and third-party platforms.
• Partner with engineering teams to define scalable APIs, data models, permissions frameworks, and interoperability approaches.
• Coordinate integration efforts with external partners, customer systems, and internal platform and business teams.
• Support deployment, operationalization, and scaling of the platform across multiple environments and mission sets.
• Define clear ownership structures, operating rhythms, and cross-functional coordination mechanisms across participating teams.
• Improve visibility into roadmap status, dependencies, risks, and execution health.
• Drive disciplined product development processes across requirements management, prioritization, release planning, and stakeholder communication.
• Help mature the organization from reactive execution toward a scalable product operating model.
• Serve as a product leader across executive reviews, customer engagements, operational discussions, and roadmap planning.
• Build strong relationships with operators, engineers, deployment teams, customers, and mission stakeholders.
• Communicate product strategy, technical tradeoffs, and operational priorities clearly across both technical and non-technical audiences.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 10+ years of experience in product management, technical program management, UX/product design, or related technical leadership roles.
• Experience leading large-scale software or platform initiatives across multiple engineering organizations.
• Strong technical fluency across modern software platforms, distributed systems, integrations, APIs, or mission-critical applications.
• Proven ability to drive alignment and execution across teams without direct authority.
• Experience translating operational workflows and customer feedback into scalable product solutions.
• Strong understanding of front-end product development, user workflows, and UX-driven product design.
• Experience working closely with front-end engineers, back-end engineers, UX researchers, and deployment stakeholders in complex technical environments.
• Strong communication, organizational, and leadership skills.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving, and highly technical environments.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
Preferred:
• Experience building or supporting command and control systems, common operating pictures, operational platforms, or real-time mission software.
• Background in product design, UX, interaction design, or workflow-heavy enterprise software environments.
• Experience supporting intelligence analysis, mission planning, or operational decision-support workflows within government or defense environments.
• Familiarity with intelligence analytics platforms, sensor fusion systems, pattern-of-life analysis, or operational visualization tools.
• Experience designing analytical workflows or user experiences that help operators synthesize information and make time-sensitive decisions.
• Experience with defense technology, autonomy, robotics, ISR, or multi-domain operational systems.
• Experience supporting deployed operational systems or customer-facing platform products.
• Background in systems integration, platform architecture, or infrastructure-heavy software environments.
• Experience working directly with operators, deployment teams, or mission users in operational environments.
Company:
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that specializes in developing advanced autonomous systems to enhance national security. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Costa Mesa, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.