Description
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.
Maritime Digital Production (MDP) is the software and digital systems function within Anduril's Heavy Metal division. We build the software-defined shipyard.
As a Senior Product Manager for Manufacturing Software, you will own the product strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for the factory floor applications that production operators, supervisors, and manufacturing engineers rely on every shift.
Product Strategy You can “see around the corner” for your product, crafting the vision, high-level roadmap, and critical dependencies for 6 to 12 months into the future.
Product Prioritization You work backward from your strategy to set clear outcomes for your portfolio in partnership with your engineering, design, and operations partners.
Problem Discovery and Solution Generation You become attached to problems, not solutions. You seek out real-world context through onsite user research on the factory floor, direct conversations with technicians and operators, internal expert feedback, existing product data, and industry investigation.
Product Execution From design to delivery, you fill gaps wherever needed to make your well-scoped solutions a reality.
Responsibilities
- Developing a long-term strategy that navigates complex product tradeoffs, integration dependencies, and buy versus build decisions to push the manufacturing software domain forward
- Gathering and refining both functional requirements and non-functional requirements such as tool capacity, performance, and reliability, and synthesizing them into a prioritized backlog
- Communicating across stakeholders and interested parties on roadmap and delivery, and exercising the judgment to tell whether a stakeholder truly needs what they are asking for or whether the underlying problem is better solved another way
- Walking the factory floor, talking directly with technicians and operators about how their work is going, and turning what you hear into opportunities to fix and improve the product
- Navigating the organizational dynamics between Maritime Digital Production and partner platform teams, advocating from the customer point of view when Maritime's needs differ from how a platform team would prefer to build
- Exploring and incorporating technologies that enhance Anduril's operational leverage
- Driving adoption and enablement of manufacturing software across production and operations teams
Requirements
- 8+ years in a software product management role or similar leading role in product development
- Domain expertise within hardware-related industries such as manufacturing, supply chain, warehousing, or logistics
- Demonstrated ability to gather and refine both functional and non-functional requirements and turn them into a prioritized backlog
- Strong understanding of the interplay between enterprise systems, including ERP, WMS, MES, PLM, and supplier portals
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work with stakeholders across a wide range of technical comfort and to judge whether a request reflects a real underlying need
- Demonstrated success working directly with end users in operational environments, including time spent on a production or factory floor observing workflows firsthand
- Ability to navigate cross-team and cross-department dynamics, representing the customer point of view and building alignment when priorities differ
- Ability to balance requirements across engineering, design, data, and business stakeholders
- Demonstrated success decomposing a problem into addressable component parts and arranging the correct sequencing
- Proven ability to “see around corners” by crafting product strategy for 6 to 12 months into the future
- Comfort maturing a product from MVP to enterprise-grade production
- Must be able to travel up to 25% of the time
- U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance