Senior PMM, Loitering Munitions & Precision Strike

VideoRay; Simi Valley (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401K with company match

Paid holidays and 9/80 schedule

Job summary

AeroVironment, based in California, seeks a senior product marketing owner for the Loitering Munitions/Precision Strike portfolio. You will own positioning, messaging, launches, and sales enablement end-to-end, reporting to the VP of Marketing & Communications.

This embedded role drives competitive intelligence and customer evidence across regions while aligning with ITAR/compliance. You will partner with BU leadership, product management, BD, and campaigns to deliver repeatable launch

Qualifications

• 12+ years total civilian work experience.
• 8+ years in product marketing with meaningful time in both enterprise software or hardware-software product marketing and defense, aerospace, or dual-use technology.
• Demonstrated ownership of a product line or portfolio at $100M+ revenue scale.
• Fluency in DoD acquisition dynamics: program of record lifecycles, POM cycles, primes vs. non-traditional entrants, FMS/DCS mechanics.
• Demonstrable positioning craft: you can show a positioning document, launch plan, campaign plan, and enablement asset you built that moved a measurable number.
• Ability to operate within export control, classification, and public-release constraints without diluting message strength.
• Self-directed operator: you run a portfolio with executive-level accountability and minimal day-to-day direction.
• Proven ability to earn the trust of technical and program stakeholders and operate inside a business unit's rhythm, functioning as a partner to the business rather than a service function to it.
• Commutable distance from AV Simi Valley Campus

Responsibilities

• Build deep, trusted relationships with Business Unit leadership, program managers, capture leads, and engineering.
• Partner with product managers as their marketing counterpart on roadmap milestones, launch readiness, claims substantiation, and customer evidence/operational proof.
• Embed in the business unit's operational cadence: program reviews, capture gate reviews, and planning rhythms.
• Own the positioning architecture for the LMS/Strike portfolio: differentiated claims backed by operational evidence.
• Own the brand positioning and messaging architecture for the LMS/Strike portfolio: differentiated claims backed by operational evidence.
• Own the consolidation of voice of customer inputs to feed structured customer and operator insight back into MarCom, Product and BD strategy.
• Use AV’s messaging architecture to translate mission outcomes into customer-facing narratives.
• Deliver export-aware localized positioning for priority allied regions, within ITAR and export-control boundaries.
• Translate mission outcomes into customer-facing narratives and ensure product positioning plugs into AV's corporate narrative.

Skills

12+ years experience

8+ years product marketing

Ownership of $100M+ revenue

DoD acquisition dynamics

Positioning craft

Export control knowledge

Self-directed operator

Stakeholder management

Commutable distance to Simi Valley

Job description

AeroVironment, based in California, seeks a senior product marketing owner for the Loitering Munitions/Precision Strike portfolio. You will own positioning, messaging, launches, and sales enablement end-to-end, reporting to the VP of Marketing & Communications.

This embedded role drives competitive intelligence and customer evidence across regions while aligning with ITAR/compliance. You will partner with BU leadership, product management, BD, and campaigns to deliver repeatable launch