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Nomad Global Communications Solutions a Kratos Company is a leading provider of communication and response products. Our purpose is to be the solution when every minute matters. We seek a candidate that is self-inspired to learn and demonstrates a high degree of customer service while positively contributing to our team. The Software Configurator Product Manager owns the strategic development of Nomad's product configurator, the software platform that translates customer needs into engineering ready, costed, solutions. This role bridges Sales, Engineering, and Production, and is instrumental in how Nomad scales its Standard Product design. We seek a candidate who is part product leader, part systems architect, and part hands-on builder with the drive to chart and execute a long-term vision for Nomad's Software Configurator.

Organizational Structure: Engineering is organized into Teams and Disciplines within the ISG. This role will report directly to the Director of Standards and Modularity in Team 1, with a dotted line responsibility to the Software Engineering Manager.

Teams

• Team 1 - Standards and Modularity: Builds and maintains engineering standards enabling repeatability and scale.
• Team 2 - Design: Executes project-level engineering using established standards and less complex custom configurations.
• Team 3 - Advanced: Develops novel systems and resolves first-of-kind engineering challenges.
• Team 4 - Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering: Ensures manufacturability, safety, engineering intent, efficiency, and continuous improvement throughout Production.

Disciplines:

• Mechanical Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• IT Engineering
• Human Factors Engineering
• Embedded Systems Engineering
• Software Engineering (where this role is located)

Responsibilities:

• Create and advance the Configurator's development roadmap, aligning priorities with company objectives and
• Nomad Standard Product design established by Team 1.
• Champion data-driven decision-making.
• Develop frontend interfaces and supporting backend systems for the Configurator and integrated platform applications.
• Ensure Configurator integrates cleanly with Team 1 standards for Electrical, IT, Human Factors, and other engineering disciplines.
• Stay abreast of parallel industry uses of Standardization, Modularity, and product configurators to inform the development of Nomad's product configurator.
• Perform additional duties as required.

Leadership & Development

• Engage in hands-on technical project management: estimate work, set priorities, coordinate with stakeholders, debug across platforms, and ensure successful delivery through comprehensive testing.
• Hire, develop, and manage team members and third-party contractors, matching technical skillsets to project needs and maintaining development goals and schedules.
• Conduct quarterly reviews and provide mentoring including coaching, code reviews, and professional development when applicable, for each team member.
• Perform build vs. buy analyses to determine optimal technical solutions.
• Champion adherence to Nomad Core Values.

Technical Authority, Governance & Collaboration

• Serve as the technical authority for the Configurator across all Innovation Solutions teams.
• Communicate clearly across Engineering, Sales, Operations, and IT; serve as the primary point of contact for Configurator status, decisions, and cross-functional coordination.
• Collaborate with Sales Engineering to ensure their needs are identified and taken into consideration when planning, prioritizing, and building new features and modules, improving system usability, and fixing bugs.
• Participate in technical meetings and provide strategic recommendations.
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance and Production to incorporate lessons learned into future product.
• Define and implement workflows that improve Configurator development efficiency; support end users with documentation, tools, and technical assistance; maintain active participation in relevant cross-functional program meetings.

Software Development & Delivery

• Plan, estimate, and deliver Configurator development work on time and to scope, taking personal ownership of complex deliverables and removing obstacles that block progress.
• Require design changes when software engineering standards or functionality requirements are not met.
• Produce clean, efficient, well documented, high-quality code.
• Ensure delivery of technically sound solutions.

System Architecture & Integration

• Ensure the Configurator is built to Nomad's software standards, design methods, and development practices,
• as defined by the Software Engineering Manager.
• Support Team 1 in maintaining Nomad software design standards, modularity rules, templates, and libraries; ensure design methodologies, toolsets, and development roadmaps align with those standards.

Applied AI, Intelligent Automation, & Advanced Engineering

• Leverage AI-assisted development tools and agentic automation frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, N8N) to accelerate Configurator development and support broader engineering automation initiatives.
• Integrate AI/ML capabilities and automation workflows into Configurator and adjacent systems; ensure integrations with ERP and internal platforms are reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient.
• Produce technical design documentation, architecture artifacts, and SOP contributions supporting AI and automation initiatives.
• Stay current with emerging AI, automation, and configurator technologies; champion adoption of relevant tools across engineering operations and advise on infrastructure decisions.