Technical Product Manager

Swarmaero; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Swarm Aero is seeking a Product Manager to transform customer feedback into precise product specifications for swarming UAV features. You will own features end-to-end, collaborating with design to translate specs into workflows and user interfaces, and drive validation with engineers, operators, and government customers.

You will facilitate discussions, capture decisions, and ensure deliverables align with product intent, requirements, and project timelines.

Qualifications

• Ability to translate customer needs into actionable product requirements.

Responsibilities

• Create clear, detailed product specifications for new features and capabilities.
• Turn customer needs and operator feedback into actionable product requirements.
• Own features from definition through design, development, feedback and validation.
• Collaborate with Product Design to translate specs into workflows and designs.
• Review designs and implementations against product intent and requirements.
• Facilitate product discussions with government customers, contractors, operators, engineers and stakeholders.
• Prepare agendas and capture feedback, decisions and action items.
• Incorporate meeting outcomes into specifications and artifacts.
• Maintain feature status, decision history and feedback registers.
• Identify ambiguity and missing decisions to keep the team moving.
• Track key product and contractual deliverables.
• Help prepare product reviews and demonstrations.

Skills

Product requirements

Stakeholder facilitation

Technical coordination

Specification writing

Design collaboration

Job description

Swarm Aero is redefining air power, building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network in the world. The company is moving quickly to launch the first aircraft designed specifically for swarming, as well as the Command Control software to mobilize swarms of thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets and empower human operators to achieve superhuman results.The team has created and exited multiple startups, negotiated defense deals worth billions of dollars, and designed and built 30+ novel aircraft, with aerospace experience from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic.MissionTurn operational needs, customer feedback, and product direction into clear product specifications—and then drive those capabilities through decisions, design, development, and validation.

What You’ll Own

• Create clear, detailed product specifications for new features and capabilities.
• Take customer needs, operator feedback, technical constraints, and product direction and turn them into actionable product requirements.
• Own bounded features from early definition through design, development, feedback, and validation.
• Work directly with Product Design to translate specifications into detailed workflows and Figma designs.
• Review designs and implementations against product intent and requirements.
• Facilitate product discussions with government customers, third-party contractors, operators, engineers, and internal stakeholders.
• Prepare agendas and clearly identify topics requiring feedback, decisions, or alignment.
• Capture decisions, unresolved issues, customer feedback, and action items.
• Incorporate meeting outcomes directly into product specifications and related artifacts.
• Maintain feature status, decision history, feedback registers, and key product commitments.
• Identify ambiguity, conflicting requirements, and missing decisions before they slow the team down.
• Track important product and contractual deliverables.
• Help prepare product reviews, demonstrations, and customer discussions.
• Create enough structure to keep the organization aligned without introducing unnecessary process.

What Great Looks Like

You are given a problem such as:“Operators need a better way to understand and respond to vehicle health issues during degraded communications.”You meet with the relevant operators, engineers, customers, and stakeholders.You understand the underlying problem.You separate customer requests from actual product requirements.You identify edge cases and unresolved decisions.You write a product specification that clearly explains the intended behavior, workflows, system states, requirements, and open questions.You work with Product Design to turn that specification into a strong interface.You incorporate feedback, resolve ambiguity, and keep the feature moving until the capability w