Senior Product Manager, Defense Autonomy Releases

Forterra; Clarksburg (MD); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

PTO 20 days per year

Parental leave 7 weeks

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Forterra is seeking a Product Manager for software releases in a hybrid role based near Clarksburg, MD. You will own the cross-functional baseline across autonomy software, edge compute hardware, and firmware, coordinating between engineering, growth, and executives to ensure the right things ship in the right order.

You will drive release content, cadence, and acceptance criteria, while managing risk, dependencies, and test protocols.

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years in product management, defense products preferred.
• Able to align business goals with technical teams.
• Strong product instincts to map field needs to platform constraints.
• Experience owning a release across multiple engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the Release: define a supported baseline, what ships, and when.
• Evaluate and document tradeoffs for each candidate product revision.
• Create artifacts (compatibility matrices, diagrams) to align programs and leadership.
• Maintain baseline documentation across hardware, firmware, and software.

Skills

Product management

Strategic thinking

Technical fluency

Release management

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Defense domain knowledge

Agile / Jira

Tools

Jira

Job description

Forterra is seeking a Product Manager for software releases in a hybrid role based near Clarksburg, MD. You will own the cross-functional baseline across autonomy software, edge compute hardware, and firmware, coordinating between engineering, growth, and executives to ensure the right things ship in the right order.

You will drive release content, cadence, and acceptance criteria, while managing risk, dependencies, and test protocols.