Senior Product Manager, Tactical C2 & Systems Integration

Chaos Industries; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k

Free lunch & unlimited PTO

Job summary

CHAOS Industries in San Francisco seeks a Senior Product Manager to own the tactical C2 software and the integration platform, connecting CHAOS systems to external sensors and higher-level C2 systems. You will translate mission needs into product decisions and collaborate with software, systems, hardware, and program teams to deliver deployments.

You thrive in technically complex environments, manage tradeoffs across interfaces, data flows, latency, and deployment constraints, and travel for

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience, including ownership of complex software products and ~5+ years in product management or equivalent
• Experience with software that interacts with hardware, sensors, networks, external systems, or real-world operations
• Strong written and verbal communication, product judgment, and ability to drive alignment without formal authority
• Work full-time onsite with the CHAOS software team in San Francisco
• Regular travel may be required for testing, customer demonstrations, integrations, and cross-functional collaboration

Responsibilities

• Own product direction, prioritization, and execution for CHAOS’s tactical C2 software and integration platform.
• Translate operator workflows, mission needs, and interoperability requirements into clear product decisions and engineering priorities.
• Determine where capabilities should live across CHAOS C2, shared platform services, external sensors, and higher-level C2 systems, and define interfaces between them.
• Partner with software, systems, hardware, and integration engineers on tradeoffs involving interfaces, data flows, latency, failure modes, networking, and deployment constraints.
• Balance urgent program-specific integrations with reusable platform capabilities that reduce one-off work over time.
• Build durable relationships across engineering, programs, operations, and business teams and be a trusted source of product and mission context.
• Thrive in technically complex, ambiguous environments and drive a product from problem definition through delivery.
• Be comfortable working with engineers at depth without needing to be the technical decision-maker.
• Think in systems: users, hardware, software, interfaces, dependencies, failure modes, and operational constraints.
• Become conversant in unfamiliar domains and earn credibility with stakeholders.
• Make sound tradeoffs under time and information constraints.
• Travel for testing, demonstrations, integrations, and cross-functional collaboration.

Skills

Product management

Hardware integration

Systems thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder communication

Trade-off analysis

Job description

CHAOS Industries in San Francisco seeks a Senior Product Manager to own the tactical C2 software and the integration platform, connecting CHAOS systems to external sensors and higher-level C2 systems. You will translate mission needs into product decisions and collaborate with software, systems, hardware, and program teams to deliver deployments.

You thrive in technically complex environments, manage tradeoffs across interfaces, data flows, latency, and deployment constraints, and travel for