Product Manager

defenseunicorns; United States; Remote; USD 171,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health, dental, and vision coverage

HSA

Retirement plan

Home office support

Learning & conference reimbursements

Job summary

Defense Unicorns is seeking a Product Manager to own the direction of software delivery tools and packaging, spanning open source and paid offerings. You will connect customer needs, business goals, and engineering work in a fast-moving, remote environment.

You will set vision and roadmap, translate requests into prioritized plans, coordinate delivery with growth and delivery teams, support open source communities, and present product information in customer discussions.

Qualifications

• Experience owning a software product from vision through delivery for multiple customer groups.
• Ability to translate business strategy and customer needs into a clear product roadmap.
• Experience delivering software with Agile practices and working with engineering on tradeoffs.
• Strong judgment balancing customer, business and technical priorities with constrained resources.
• Comfort working independently in a fast-paced remote setting and presenting to customers.
• Familiarity with common task, knowledge, and code management tools.

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate product vision, objectives, and roadmap to engineers, executives, customers, and other stakeholders.
• Turn external requests into prioritized plans while balancing customer value, business goals, technical needs, and limited resources.
• Coordinate engineering delivery and align growth and delivery teams on roadmap, value proposition, customer segments, and pricing needs.
• Participate in and support open source communities around the products.
• Work with engineering and design to weigh roadmap priorities against implementation effort, and present product information in customer discussions.
• Use product and collaboration tools to manage plans and information, and keep current with product management, DevOps, regulated IT, and cloud native practices.

Job description

Role overview

Own product direction for software delivery tools and packages that support secure application packaging and internal teams. The role spans open source and paid offerings, connecting customer needs, business goals, and engineering work in a remote, fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate product vision, objectives, and roadmap to engineers, executives, customers, and other stakeholders.
• Turn external requests into prioritized plans while balancing customer value, business goals, technical needs, and limited resources.
• Coordinate engineering delivery and align growth and delivery teams on roadmap, value proposition, customer segments, and pricing needs.
• Participate in and support open source communities around the products.
• Work with engineering and design to weigh roadmap priorities against implementation effort, and present product information in customer discussions.
• Use product and collaboration tools to manage plans and information, and keep current with product management, DevOps, regulated IT, and cloud native practices.

Requirements

• Experience owning a software product from vision through delivery for multiple customer groups, including paid and open source users.
• Ability to translate business strategy and customer needs into a clear product roadmap and explain priorities at different levels of an organization.
• Experience delivering software with Agile practices and working closely with engineering on technical tradeoffs.
• Strong judgment in balancing customer, business, and technical priorities with constrained resources.
• Comfort working independently in a fast-paced remote setting and presenting to customers.
• Familiarity with common task, knowledge, and code management tools.

Nice to have

• Understanding of DevSecOps pipelines and their supporting tools, plus Kubernetes concepts such as container images and Helm charts.
• Analytical skills using data and metrics to inform decisions.
• Experience shaping a product value proposition and monetization approach for open source software.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote role based in the United States; compensation listed as $170,850–$231,150, based on experience.
• Health, dental, and vision coverage with premiums paid by the employer, plus HSA, life and disability insurance, retirement plan, and stock options.
• Flexible time off, federal holidays, additional year-end holidays, paid parental leave, home office support, and reimbursement for approved learning and conferences.