Hybrid Senior Product Manager – Defense Autonomy, Perception

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About the role

  • Senior Product Manager leading strategic product management for defense autonomy and AI at TurbineOne. Collaborating across teams for mission-driven outcomes and innovative solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the product management liaison across mission, sales/business development, product design, engineering leadership, technical program management, field engineering, information security, and various other disciplines.
  • Help prioritize features across programs and products by evaluating mission impact, technical risk, customer value, and commercial/contract drivers; recommend tradeoffs and sequencing.
  • Help engineers and team leads make design and architecture selections by defining success criteria, documenting tradeoffs (cost, complexity, schedule, field operability), and facilitating technical decision reviews.
  • Monitor market and technology trends, gather competitive intelligence, and translate that insight into strategic product direction and roadmap choices.
  • Deeply engage with operators and field engineers; synthesize field feedback, demo learnings, and “duct-tape” solutions into prioritized product work that reduces operational friction.
  • Vet contract asks and converts ambiguous requirements into sequenced milestones and deliverable product features aligned to strategic objectives.
  • Champion product-led enablement—create configuration patterns and UX/workflows that empower field teams to operate independently and increase unit self-sufficiency.
  • Partner with TPMs and engineering to de-risk delivery, maintain prioritized backlogs, define acceptance criteria, and run retrospectives to continuously improve.
  • Create concise product narratives to support sales, mission stakeholders, and leadership that explain tradeoffs, impact, and roadmap rationale.

Requirements

  • Proven product leadership with ownership of roadmaps and delivery; domain preference for autonomy/edge AI, IoT, defense/fielded systems, or defense SaaS.
  • Strong technical literacy or engineering background; comfortable partnering with engineering managers/leadership and architects on system tradeoffs.
  • Deep field/customer orientation and experience converting operational feedback into product requirements.
  • Demonstrated ability to prioritize across a portfolio and to present clear tradeoffs and decisions.
  • Excellent communication and storytelling skills for aligning engineering, business development/sales, mission teams, and leadership.
  • Servant-leader and collaborative mindset: act as a peer to technical leads, support technical program managers, and build trust with sales and field teams.
  • Practical familiarity with product tooling and coordination practices (Jira or similar, RACI, etc.).
  • Willingness to travel; mission-driven.
  • Bonus: Experience with defense acquisition cycles, autonomy research, plugin/module architectures, or product-led enablement.

Benefits

  • Travel as needed for field/user engagement

Job title

Senior Product Manager – Defense Autonomy, Perception

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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