Product Operations Manager

onebrief.com; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Onebrief builds collaboration and AI-powered workflow software for military planning and operational coordination. The company is a distributed team with some members working remotely and others in operational environments worldwide.

The Product Operations Manager will own how the deployed product performs, connecting customers, product, engineering, infrastructure, and go-to-market teams. You will build systems and automations to ship with confidence in high-stakes environments.

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: 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.

Responsibilities

• Build dashboards and telemetry to provide insight for exec, support, and engineering teams.
• Own the bug database, triage issues, set severity, and drive resolution.
• Define entry/exit criteria, sign-off, rollback triggers for pilots and GA, and manage feature flags.
• Coordinate release governance and publish a single view of shipping status.
• Run operating rhythms across tools (Jira, Confluence, Linear, GitHub, Slack, Notion).
• Measure execution with MTTR, resolution time, and escape rate.
• Facilitate quarterly planning, roadmap alignment, and cross-team dependencies.
• Work with Product Marketing and GTM to run launches and beta programs.

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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Be the "PM of PMs." Reinforce simple, consistent practices so teams hit milestones and keep quality high.
4. Turn signals into decisions. Make sure feedback and telemetry become roadmap and backlog changes.
5. 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 STIG, 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