Field-Embedded Product Manager

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Forward Deployed Product Manager who can walk into a unit, understand the fight, and translate warfighter needs into fielded solutions. You embed with units, own the problem-to-solution path, and influence engineering with user-driven priorities.

In this role you will map workflows, data, and outcomes across the stack, design for the tactical edge, and lead collaborative sessions to deliver impact in real-world environments.

Qualifications

• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance.
• 4 to 8 years in product management, product scope definition, or service design, or an equivalent record.
• Track record translating technical and domain information into narratives, CONOPS, mission threads, and feature definitions.
• Experience doing research and synthesis with users and SMEs, and building a roadmap.
• History earning trust with non-technical, operational users and partnering with them.
• Ability to balance needs across engineering, data, and business stakeholders.
• Comfort working with people across a wide range of technical backgrounds, and willingness to learn technical systems.
• Strong facilitation and whiteboarding skills, including leading interactive planning and decomposition sessions.
• Ability to do your own design work in common tools such as Figma.
• Strong organizational skills and reliability.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Own warfighter outcomes, not features. Embed with units, learn the mission, find the problems that matter most, and own them through development, fielding, and the work that comes after.
• Build real relationships with the people in the fight. Earn the trust of warfighters, commanders, staff, and SMEs. Become a partner who understands how the unit actually fights, not just what shows up in a requirements document.
• Do the research in the field. Learn by watching, asking questions, and taking part in real workflows. Turn what you learn into clear priorities.
• Connect the fight to the product. Map the users, decisions, workflows, systems, data, and dependencies behind an outcome, and use that to drive what gets built and integrated.
• Design across the whole stack. Do not default to a new app or a new screen. Determine if an outcome needs an application change, a new data model, an integration, a cross-system workflow, or data movement changes.
• Use the data model as a product tool. Know what data exists, how it is represented, where it comes from, who uses it, and what has to change to enable a workflow.
• Design for the tactical edge. Account for network, hardware, bandwidth, latency, and compute in your solution.
• Pull the right people together. Gather warfighters, engineering, design, and other teams around the same problem.
• Make ambiguous problems workable. Be comfortable writing strategy, sketching workflows, or whiteboarding with users.
• Run workshops, working groups, and design sessions. Drive decisions and next steps.
• Brief well and tell the story to operators and leadership, adjusting detail to the audience.
• Prototype before spending engineering time. Test ideas quickly with users.
• Stay with it through fielding. Monitor performance in real conditions and feed back into product.
• Look for reusable patterns across units and programs.

Skills

Product management

Roadmap definition

Service design

Narratives & CONOPS

Field research

Trust-building with users

Cross-stakeholder balance

Diversity in technical teams

Facilitation & whiteboarding

Figma design

Organizational skills

Willingness to travel

Ambiguity navigation

Tools

Figma

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Forward Deployed Product Manager who can walk into a unit, understand the fight, and translate warfighter needs into fielded solutions. You embed with units, own the problem-to-solution path, and influence engineering with user-driven priorities.

In this role you will map workflows, data, and outcomes across the stack, design for the tactical edge, and lead collaborative sessions to deliver impact in real-world environments.