Senior Product Manager - AI Defense Platform (Remote/TS)

Virtualitics; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Performance bonus

Medical, dental, vision

Unlimited PTO

Career path to Staff/Group PM

Job summary

Virtualitics Iris and Forward Deployed Applications is seeking a Product Manager to lead deployments end-to-end for DoD operators and data science teams. You will work with engineering and AI to shape architecture, scope sprints, run demos, and translate user needs into product requirements.

This role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, hands-on user research, and operational efficiency across contract types and deployment models, with a path to senior PM roles.

Qualifications

• US Citizen with active TS/SCI clearance or ability to obtain quickly.
• CS degree (or equivalent technical degree) or 1-2 years of software engineering experience.
• 4+ years of product management or software engineering experience shipping software in agile environments.
• Comfortable reading code, reviewing architecture, and holding your own in technical discussions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Own your product deployment end-to-end: requirements, backlog, sprint planning, scope decisions, releases, and outcomes.
• Drive technical decisions with engineering: architecture, feasibility, trade-offs. Challenge estimates that don\'t add up.
• Bridge users and engineers: translate operational readiness problems into product requirements through direct user research.
• Shape platform evolution: R&D work across data ontology management, agent orchestration (MCP/A2A), generative interfaces.
• Support delivery operations: ensure the product reduces manual effort across contract types and deployment models.
• Communicate clearly: executive briefings, demos, PRDs, strategic docs, cross-functional alignment.

Skills

Security clearance

CS degree

PM/Software experience

Technical communication

Communication

Education

CS degree or equivalent

Tools

APIs

SDKs

Job description

Virtualitics Iris and Forward Deployed Applications is seeking a Product Manager to lead deployments end-to-end for DoD operators and data science teams. You will work with engineering and AI to shape architecture, scope sprints, run demos, and translate user needs into product requirements.

This role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, hands-on user research, and operational efficiency across contract types and deployment models, with a path to senior PM roles.