Forward-Deployed Product Manager: Warfighter Outcomes

Anduril Industries, Inc.; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 144,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, seeks a Forward Deployed Senior Product Manager to own the path from warfighter problems to fielded solutions. You will embed with units, understand real-world workflows, and translate needs into product requirements across applications, data models, and integrations.

You will build trusted relationships with warfighters and engineers, lead cross-functional design work, and ensure solutions meet mission needs.

Qualifications

• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance.
• 4 to 8 years in product management or related field.
• Experience translating technical concepts into narratives, CONOPS, and feature definitions.
• Experience doing user research with SMEs and operational users.
• Ability to earn trust with non-technical, operational users.
• Ability to balance needs across engineering, data, and business stakeholders.
• Comfort working with diverse technical backgrounds and willingness to learn complex systems.
• Strong facilitation and whiteboarding skills; able to lead planning sessions.
• Ability to perform design work in tools such as Figma.
• Willingness to travel up to 50%.

Responsibilities

• Own warfighter outcomes, not just features. Embed with units and drive development and fielding.
• Build real relationships with warfighters, commanders, staff and SMEs.
• Conduct field research; turn insights into clear priorities.
• Connect the fight to the product by mapping users, decisions, workflows, data, and dependencies.
• Design across the stack to determine if changes are needed in apps, data models, integrations or workflows.
• Understand data models, data availability, owners, and how to enable workflows.
• Design for the tactical edge considering network, hardware, latency, and compute constraints.
• Coordinate cross-team collaboration to solve problems and drive decisions.

Skills

Clearance eligibility

Product management

Narrative/CONOPS storytelling

User research

Trust-building with operators

Facilitation/whiteboarding

Cross-functional collaboration

Figma-design skills

Travel up to 50%

Job description

Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, seeks a Forward Deployed Senior Product Manager to own the path from warfighter problems to fielded solutions. You will embed with units, understand real-world workflows, and translate needs into product requirements across applications, data models, and integrations.

You will build trusted relationships with warfighters and engineers, lead cross-functional design work, and ensure solutions meet mission needs.