Senior Product Manager, Defense C2 & Integration

Chaos, Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k match

FSA/HSA

Life insurance

Free lunch

No meeting Fridays

Unlimited PTO

Casual dress code

Relocation assistance

Annual bonus opportunities

Job summary

CHAOS Industries in San Francisco seeks a Senior Product Manager to own two related product areas: our tactical C2 software and the integration platform linking CHAOS systems to the broader operational ecosystem. You will define interfaces, prioritize work, and drive delivery in a complex, mission-critical setting.

You’ll collaborate with software, systems, hardware, and integration engineers, balancing timelines with reusable platform capabilities while building strong relationships across

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software product management experience.
• Experience with software that interacts with hardware, sensors, networks, or real-world operations.
• Strong written and verbal communication with the ability to drive alignment without formal authority.
• Willingness to work onsite full-time in San Francisco.
• Ability to think in systems across users, hardware, software, interfaces and dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Own product direction, prioritization, and execution for CHAOS’s tactical C2 software and integration platform.
• Translate operator workflows and interoperability requirements into clear product decisions.
• Define interfaces and determine where capabilities should live across CHAOS C2, shared services, sensors, and higher-level C2 systems.
• Partner with engineers on tradeoffs involving interfaces, data flows, latency, and deployment constraints.
• Balance urgent integrations with reusable platform capabilities to reduce one-off work.
• Build durable relationships across engineering, programs, operations, and business teams.
• Drive a product from problem definition through delivery in a technically complex environment.
• Operate with depth alongside engineers without needing to be the sole technical decision-maker.
• Think in systems and consider users, hardware, software, interfaces, and failure modes.
• Easily become conversant in unfamiliar domains and align stakeholders with credible product context.
• Make sound tradeoffs under time and information constraints.
• Regular travel may be required for testing, demonstrations, integrations, and collaboration.

Skills

Product management

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder communication

Systems thinking

Technical literacy

Job description

CHAOS Industries in San Francisco seeks a Senior Product Manager to own two related product areas: our tactical C2 software and the integration platform linking CHAOS systems to the broader operational ecosystem. You will define interfaces, prioritize work, and drive delivery in a complex, mission-critical setting.

You’ll collaborate with software, systems, hardware, and integration engineers, balancing timelines with reusable platform capabilities while building strong relationships across