Description
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.
As a Senior Product Manager, Forward Deployed, you will own the path from a warfighter problem to a fielded solution. This involves applications, data models, user experiences, integrations, and infrastructure. Most importantly, you will work as a translation layer between the warfighter and the engineering teams.
Responsibilities:
- Own warfighter outcomes, not features. Embed with units, learn the mission, find the problems that matter most, and own them through development, fielding, and the work that comes after.
- Build real relationships with the people in the fight. Earn the trust of warfighters, commanders, staff, and subject matter experts.
- Conduct research in the field. Learn by watching, asking questions, and taking part in real workflows. Turn what you learn into clear priorities.
- Connect the fight to the product. Map the users, decisions, workflows, systems, data, and dependencies behind an outcome, and use that to drive what gets built and integrated.
- Design across the whole stack. Determine whether an outcome needs an application change, a new or richer data model, an integration, a workflow that spans applications, or a change in how data moves across the Mesh.
- Use the data model as a product tool. Understand what data exists, how it is represented, where it comes from, who uses it, and what has to change to make a workflow possible.
- Design for the tactical edge. Account for degraded conditions, bandwidth, latency, and compute when defining a solution.
- Pull the right people together. Drive warfighters, engineering, design, and other teams toward one coherent answer.
- Make ambiguous problems workable. Be comfortable writing a strategy, sketching a workflow, working through a data flow with an engineer, or standing at a whiteboard with the people who will use the product.
- Run the room. Lead workshops, working groups, and design sessions. Get useful information out of a room, settle competing views, and leave with decisions and next steps.
- Brief well and tell the story. Communicate clearly to various audiences, adjusting the level of detail without losing substance.
- Prototype before spending engineering time. Test ideas quickly with users to get to the right answer faster.
- Stay with it through fielding. Watch whether the solution actually helps the mission, find where it breaks under real conditions, and feed that back into the product.
- Look past the single request. Spot patterns that can become reusable across units and programs.
Requirements:
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance.
- 4 to 8 years in product management, product scope definition, or service design.
- A track record of translating technical and domain-specific information into narratives, CONOPS, mission threads, and feature definitions.
- Experience doing research and synthesis with users and SMEs, and building a roadmap from what you learn.
- A history of earning trust with non-technical, operational users and partnering with them.
- The ability to balance needs across engineering, data, and business stakeholders.
- Comfort working with people across a wide range of technical backgrounds.
- Strong facilitation and whiteboarding skills.
- The ability to do your own design work in common tools such as Figma.
- Strong organizational skills and reliability.
- Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Military experience, or direct experience working alongside operational military units.
- A range of product experience across internal tools, customer-facing applications, and tools for technical users.
- Working knowledge of data models, system integrations, networking, or distributed and edge systems.
- A self-starter who does well with ambiguity and loose organizational structure.
- Experience fielding capabilities and improving them based on real operational feedback.
Salary Range: $144,000-$192,000 USD
Benefits: Anduril offers a comprehensive, competitive benefits package, including top-tier benefits for full-time employees.