Onsite Vice President – Global Product Management

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About the role

  • VP of Global Product Management overseeing product management discipline and mentorship at aerospace and defense company. Leading product strategy and fostering alignment with customer missions.

Responsibilities

  • Accountable to lead the enterprise product management discipline, aligned with the company’s Product Development Framework and governance model.
  • Establish clear product management roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and interfaces with program management, engineering, and operations.
  • Own product lifecycle standards from concept and requirements through development, deployment, sustainment, and end-of-life.
  • Build, mentor, and coach a global community of Product Managers and Product Owners.
  • Define career paths, competency models, and training plans for product management roles.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior product leaders on product strategy, trade decisions, and customer alignment.
  • Partner with Operational Excellence and Program Excellence leaders to ensure strong handoffs, clear accountability, and disciplined execution across the product–program interface.
  • Promote outcome-based product thinking, balancing cost, schedule, performance, and mission impact.
  • Responsible for defining product health and performance metrics (value delivery, maturity, technical readiness, lifecycle cost).

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree is required in a related field or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
  • Advanced degree, MBA or MS is highly preferred.
  • 15+ years of product management experience, with a primary focus in aerospace and defense.
  • Direct accountability for product strategy, definition, and lifecycle ownership of complex, mission-critical products.
  • Proven experience leading product management as a discipline, including standards, operating models, and governance.
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop product managers and elevate product thinking across the organization.
  • Strong track record of partnering with executive and business leaders to enable effective decision making aligned to customer missions and enterprise priorities.

Benefits

  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • 401K with company matching
  • a 9/80 work schedule
  • paid holiday shutdown

Job title

Vice President – Global Product Management

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$220,000 - $288,750 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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