Senior Product Manager, Intelligence Systems

Anduril Industries; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks a senior product leader to own a portfolio of defense-focused products, collaborating with engineering, design, and business teams. You will translate stakeholder requirements into prioritized backlogs, define solutions, and drive end-to-end delivery while measuring impact with data and user feedback.

You will work with external partners and internal teams to align roadmaps with security, compliance, and business goals, supporting rapid development cycles and strong

Qualifications

• 7+ years in product development with at least 5 years in hands-on product management.
• Experience managing hardware and software lifecycles.
• Expertise in secure networking environments is a plus.
• Ability to balance requirements across engineering, design, data, and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage stakeholders' requirements (Deployment Operations, Technical Operations, Hardware Product Management, Quality, Logistics, etc.) and synthesize into a prioritized backlog.
• Work with engineering to understand pain points and reflect them in product deficiencies and end-user impact.
• Define solutions and features by gathering real-world context from onsite research, expert feedback, product data, and industry tech investigations.
• Prioritize and plan with engineering, design, and business partners; establish team structures for rapid development cycles.
• Communicate vision and execution strategy; escalate large trade-offs and critical decisions as needed.
• Execute across the product lifecycle from initial release to day-to-day improvements; validate with data and user feedback.
• Lead with data by defining metrics to measure success and monitor progress.
• Collaborate with business development, proposal, marketing, and compliance for external storytelling and customer demos.
• Foster product culture and cross-functional collaboration across business, engineering, design, operations, and finance.

Skills

Product management

Hardware lifecycles

Software lifecycles

Secure networking

Stakeholder management

Communication

User feedback

Cross-functional leadership

Problem decomposition

Team motivation

Security clearance

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

About The Team

Anduril Intelligence Systems (AIS) is focused on positioning Anduril as a lead provider of specialized engineering and next generation national security products for Intelligence Community (IC) customers. We work within the IC to understand their requirements, shape their concepts of operation, and deliver exquisite capability across their problem set. We aim to develop and deploy critically needed capabilities that address our customers’ most pressing national security requirements.

What You'll Do

• Managing stakeholders' requirements (Deployment Operations, Technical Operations, Hardware Product Management, Quality, Logistics, etc.) and synthesizing them into a prioritized backlog
• Work closely with the engineering team. You will learn about engineering pain points, understand where those pain points reflect product deficiencies, and assess how those developer pain points are affecting end users.
• Define solutions. Identify potential features that will accelerate Anduril's goals, increase our ability to quickly scale, and create an excellent end user experience. To do this, you will seek out real-world context in the form of onsite user research, internal expert feedback, existing product data, and industry tech investigation. You will capture core workflows and translate these user needs into well-scoped requirements and success hypotheses.
• Prioritize and plan. Set clear outcomes for your portfolio in partnership with your engineering, design, and business partners. Develop team structures that allow prioritization of competing work within rapid development cycles. Help your team flex to adapt goals when needed, based on new information.
• Communicate vision and execution strategy. Proactively communicate goals to stakeholders and manage expectations of delivery. Escalate large trade offs and necessary decision points as needed.
• Execute. Work hands-on to deliver new capabilities across the lifecycle of the product, from initial release and onboarding, through day-to-day improvements. Validate and experiment along the way, acting as the voice of the user throughout.
• When possible, lead with data. Define and monitor key metrics to measure success.
• External storytelling. Work with business development, proposal, marketing, and compliance leads to communicate product capabilities externally. Participate in large-scale customer demos.
• Build product culture. Develop relationships to bridge business and technical worlds. Build tech alongside prolific engineers and designers, and then zoom out to work with business development, operations, customer success, marketing, and finance teams in order to ensure success. Along the way, you’ll help define and drive product team culture and best practices.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years in product development, with at least 5 years specifically in a hands-on product management capacity.
• Preference given to individuals with experience managing both hardware and software product lifecycles.
• Expertise in secure networking environments is a plus.
• Ability to balance requirements across engineering, design, data, and business stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience leveraging diverse multimedia resources to enhance product adoption and acquire user feedback
• Aptitude for working with internal and external stakeholders, across a wide range of technical comfort
• Demonstrated success decomposing a problem into addressable component parts
• Proven ability to motivate cross functional teams to do their best work
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage multiple products across varying security classification levels while maintaining appropriate information barriers and security protocols
• Must be able to travel up to 15% of the time
• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active top secret security clearance (at a minimum)

US Salary Range

$166,000 - $220,000 USD

Benefits

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you're supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.