Defense & Public Sector AI Product Manager

The Briefed; New York (NY); On-site; USD 311,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare & Wellness

Learning & development stipend

Commuter stipends

Generous PTO & retirement plans

Job summary

The Briefed is seeking a Product Manager for the Public Sector to lead product efforts across military planning and real-time AI/Alerting (LUX) initiatives. You will own outcomes for AI and streaming-data capabilities, building trust with senior officers and DoD stakeholders while navigating classified, air-gapped environments.

Responsibilities include owning deployments from contract to production, translating field reality into platform decisions, and aligning FDE/Platform Capability pods to

Qualifications

• 6+ years in product management or related roles with security domain exposure.
• Active TOP SECRET clearance (TS/SCI eligibility preferred).
• Direct experience with national security customers or DoD/DoW.
• Fluency in military planning or real-time data architectures.
• Proven ability to ship complex data products in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Own product outcomes across military planning and LUX areas, including deployment and system performance.
• Translate operational realities into architectural trade-offs for platform teams.
• Build advisory relationships with senior military leaders and stakeholders.
• Lead deployments inside classified environments from contract to production.
• Coordinate with engineering pods to align cross-functional delivery.
• Diagnose bottlenecks to distinguish product vs. integration issues.
• Identify expansion opportunities and communicate value back to leadership.

Skills

Military planning

Real-time data architectures

Latency & throughput

Executive advisory

Product management leadership

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Kinesis

Job description

The Briefed is seeking a Product Manager for the Public Sector to lead product efforts across military planning and real-time AI/Alerting (LUX) initiatives. You will own outcomes for AI and streaming-data capabilities, building trust with senior officers and DoD stakeholders while navigating classified, air-gapped environments.

Responsibilities include owning deployments from contract to production, translating field reality into platform decisions, and aligning FDE/Platform Capability pods to