Senior Product Manager, Defense

• Own the roadmap for the defense product: the common operating picture, entity tracking, mission planning, ingest, and alerting and prediction.
• Get in front of operators and analysts. Turn what they actually do into specs, prototypes, and shipped product.
• Draw the line between defense-specific capability and core platform, and work with the enterprise PMs so the defense product composes on the platform rather than diverging from it.
• Own deployment posture as product: on-prem, disconnected and degraded networks, air-gapped installs, classification markings, and data handling.
• Partner with the program side on ATO timelines, FedRAMP, CMMC, and ITAR, and turn those constraints into requirements and sequencing.
• Run demos and pilots with government customers and own the path from demo to pilot to program.
• Set the bar for how AI should behave in a high-stakes setting: what an operator needs to see before they trust an alert, and when the system must defer to a person.

• 6+ years in product management with increasing scope, including time at a startup or in genuine 0-to-1 ambiguity.
• Shipped software used by defense, intelligence, or public-safety operators. You've sat with the people who use it.
• Fluent in the government motion: ATO, impact levels, CMMC and FedRAMP, contracting vehicles, and the pilot-to-program path.
• Worked in geospatial, command-and-control, ISR, or situational-awareness products. You know what a common operating picture is and what makes one good.
• Built with AI. Shipped an AI- or agent-powered product, and you reason clearly about probabilistic output in settings where a wrong alert has a cost.
• Engineering-grade technical judgment: you make and defend technical calls alongside senior engineers, including on sovereign and disconnected deployment.
• First-principles thinker and sharp problem-definer. You frame the problem before reaching for a solution.
• An excellent writer. You can produce a crisp argument, not just a ticket.

• Military or intelligence service, or time in a DoD or IC program office.
• Experience at a defense-software company (Palantir, Anduril, Shield AI, Maxar, Esri, or similar).
• Shipped or operated a command-and-control platform (TAK, Lattice, Gotham, or a service C2 system), or built products that plug into one.
• Worked with uncrewed systems: drone or robotics fleets, sensor payloads, ground control software, or autonomy stacks.
• Hands-on with ISR data: full-motion video, SAR and EO imagery, SIGINT, or multi-INT fusion and tracking.
• Worked with tactical networks and edge deployment: DDIL environments, mesh radios, or compute on the platform itself.
• Active Secret or TS clearance.
• Dual-market experience: shipped to both commercial and government customers.

This role handles ITAR-controlled technical data, so it requires U.S. citizenship. An active security clearance is preferred. If you don't hold one, you must be eligible to obtain one.

We write before we build, we keep the team small and senior, and we expect everyone to hold and update strong opinions. Early conversations are a two-way pressure-test: we'll send you a couple of our internal docs and ask what you'd push back on.

This is an exempt position.