Product Operations Manager

Onebrief; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Onebrief is seeking a Product Operations Manager to connect customers, product, engineering, and GTM teams in mission-critical environments. You will architect 0→1 processes, AI agents, and data pipelines to enable reliable releases and scale operations across the organization.

You will build dashboards, telemetry, and self-checks for executive and engineering visibility, while owning release governance and bug triage with a focus on customer impact and data-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years in product operations, product management, technical program management, or release management in B2B/SaaS.
• Active SECRET clearance or higher.
• A track record of building 0→1 processes and scaling them.
• Strong data skills: SQL or similar, dashboards, and product analytics.
• Hands-on AI experience: you have built or used prompts, agents, and automations to improve workflows.
• Working knowledge of release practices: feature flags, staged rollouts, rollback, and release notes.
• Experience with bug tracking and triage, including severity levels and resolution targets.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Linear, GitHub, Slack, and Notion, or similar tools.
• Experience running launches, early access or beta programs, and customer feedback loops.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including recorded walkthroughs and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Own product operations processes and data pipelines to ship in high-stakes environments.
• Build AI-powered automations and tooling to scale operations.
• Define entry/exit criteria, sign-off owners, and rollback triggers for releases.
• Maintain bug database with triage and resolution targets; drive critical issues to resolution.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Infra, Quality, InfraSec, Customer Relations, and Product Marketing.
• Run planning, launches, and beta programs; communicate roadmap status across teams.
• Create dashboards and telemetry for product usage, reliability, and QoS.

Skills

process design

data analysis

technical program management

AI and automation

user research

cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Linear

GitHub

Slack

Notion

Job description

Consequential Work. Dedicated People. About Onebrief

Onebrief builds collaboration and AI-powered workflow software for military planning and operational coordination. Military planning is complex by nature, requiring teams to coordinate information, people, and decisions across systems and locations. Onebrief brings planning, collaboration, simulation, and AI into one connected environment, helping teams test strategies, adapt to changing conditions, and make decisions with greater clarity when the stakes are real.

We are a distributed team of builders from military, operational, and technology backgrounds who care deeply about improving how important work gets done. Some team members work remotely, while others work directly alongside customers in operational environments around the world.

Founded in 2019, Onebrief is backed by leading investors including General Catalyst, Battery Ventures, Insight Partners, Sapphire Ventures, and Human Capital. Valued at more than $2 billion, we continue to invest in product innovation, AI capabilities, and team growth.

Product Operations Manager

Overview

As a Product Operations Manager at Onebrief, you own whether the deployed product works the way we intend. You connect customers, product, engineering, infrastructure, and go-to-market teams. You build the systems, data pipelines, and automations that help us ship with confidence in high-stakes, mission-critical environments.

This is a hands-on, technical role. You will build 0→1 processes and tools, and use AI and automation to run them at scale.

What you will achieve

Signal & Insight

Build customer feedback channels and usage and satisfaction measures (feature-usage telemetry, NPS/CSAT), and turn that data into roadmap input.

Build dashboards for exec, support, and engineering, with automated self-checks so they stay accurate without manual audits.

Reliability

Own the bug database, including intake, triage, severity levels, resolution targets, and a regular review cadence. Drive the top customer-impacting issues to resolution.

Define and ship in-product quality-of-service measures (load delays, timeouts, crashes, failed logins), and work with InfraSec to plan STIG, POA&M, and security fixes into the roadmap.

Release Governance

Define entry and exit criteria, sign-off owners, and rollback triggers for Pilot, Early Access, and General Availability. Own feature flags, rollback procedures, and release notes.

Keep one shared view of what is shipping, to whom, and when, and report it weekly in CR OpSync. Bring InfraSec in early on high-side and ATO impacts, and produce enablement materials for Sales and Customer Relations.

Process & Tooling

Run clean operating rhythms across Linear, Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Slack, and Notion. Define how customer issues are weighed against new feature work, and who communicates when something breaks or ships.

Measure how well we execute using resolution time, escape rate, regression rate, and mean time to recovery (MTTR).

Planning & Launches

Facilitate quarterly planning, roadmap alignment, and cross-team dependencies.

Work with Product Marketing and GTM leadership to run launches and Early Access and beta programs, and make it clear to everyone at Onebrief what Product is working on, why it matters, and how it's going.

How you'll operate

Discover, build, connect, communicate.

Find what already exists and who to involve. Build the process or tool only if needed. Connect it to other teams and tools so it isn't a silo. Then record a walkthrough and share it.

Build with AI.

Design and maintain AI agents and automations for tasks like PRD drafting, release note checks, dashboard checks, and data grooming. Document custom builds in the ProdOps GitHub repo instead of building them ad hoc.

Be the "PM of PMs".

Reinforce simple, consistent practices so teams hit milestones and keep quality high.

Turn signals into decisions.

Make sure feedback and telemetry become roadmap and backlog changes.

Work across the org.

Partner closely with Engineering, Infra, Quality, InfraSec, Customer Relations, and Product Marketing. Be the one place the org can see release, reliability, and feedback status.

About You

You must have an active SECRET clearance or higher, and be willing to travel domestically or internationally when needed.

You mix good judgment with strong follow-through, and you balance user empathy with data. You care about building tools that work in real, time-sensitive situations. You are comfortable setting up structure when things are unclear, and you can hold your ground when a process needs to be enforced.

Core skills

process design, data analysis, technical program management, AI and automation, user research, cross-functional leadership

Qualifications

Required

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

3+ years in product operations, product management, technical program management, or release management in B2B/SaaS

Active SECRET clearance or higher

A track record of building 0→1 processes and scaling them

Strong data skills: you can pull, analyze, and present data (SQL or similar, dashboards, product analytics)

Hands-on AI experience: you have built or used prompts, agents, and automations to improve real workflows

Working knowledge of release practices: feature flags, staged rollouts, rollback, and release notes

Experience with bug tracking and triage, including severity levels and resolution targets

Experience with Jira, Confluence, Linear, GitHub, Slack, and Notion, or similar tools

Experience running launches, early access or beta programs, and customer feedback loops

Clear written and verbal communication, including recorded walkthroughs and documentation

Preferred

Military, government, or national security experience

Familiarity with STIGs, POA&M, ATO, and secure or air-gapped deployments

Experience with product telemetry, observability, or quality-of-service measures

Experience with MCP, API integrations, or scripting to automate workflows

Experience with tool migrations (for example, moving to Atlassian) while keeping processes intact

Experience working with multiple teams to set one standard process