About the role

Technical Product Manager focusing on C3 systems at Forterra, delivering autonomous solutions for the defense sector. Balancing strategic and tactical roles in product management within engineering teams.

Responsibilities

Own the Roadmap for Your Area: Define the customer, value, and success metrics for your product. Make sure the work being done is the best way to deliver that value.
Drive Alignment: Create user journeys, diagrams, and other artifacts to clarify priorities and align stakeholders internal and external to your team.
Shape Execution: Translate ambiguous goals into clear, prioritized work. Write detailed feature descriptions and acceptance criteria that enable execution.
Prioritize Ruthlessly: Intake and triage product improvements. Balance customer impact, technical effort, and business needs in prioritizing your backlog.
Communicate Proactively: Keep engineering, product leadership, growth, and other stakeholders informed. Share progress, flag issues, and raise tradeoffs early.
Measure Progress and Value: Define KPIs, evaluate work against roadmap goals, and ensure your team is maximizing impact.
Validate Delivery: Work closely with engineering to ensure what’s built meets the intended scope and quality. Accept completed work based on clear criteria.
Support Agile Rhythm: As a Product Owner, partner with Scrum Masters to shape sprint goals and contribute to sprint reviews.
Escalate When Needed: Raise scope or timeline risks to Product Leadership to support decision-making.
Champion Your Team: Evangelize successes and ensure the value your team delivers is visible across the organization.

5–8+ years of technical product management experience, ideally in command and control of autonomous systems.
Bachelor’s in related field or equivalent experience.
You’re comfortable operating at both strategic and tactical levels— able to align with business goals and get specific with technical teams.
Strong product instincts —able to connect field needs and platform constraints to tactical engineering priorities.
Experience building distributed C2 frontend and backend services, including intuitive user experiences, multi-tenant architectures, RBAC/Zero Trust controls, and real-time pub/sub messaging.
You’re technical enough to earn the trust of engineers, hold your own in brainstorming sessions, and ensure feasibility.
Deep familiarity with product development in systems with high performance, latency, and robustness requirements.
You communicate clearly across roles—from engineers to executives—and thrive in cross-functional environments.
You’re rigorous about execution and care deeply that what's being built works for the user in the real world.

Premium Healthcare Benefits: Three plan options, including an HSA-eligible plan, with Forterra covering 80% of the plan premium for you and your dependents.
Basic Life/AD&D, short and long-term disability insurance plans 100% covered by Forterra, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a winter break in December.
Competitive paid time off (PTO) offering 20 days accrued per year.
A minimum of 7 weeks fully paid parental leave for birth/adoption.
A $9k annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend.
Fully stocked beverage refrigerators with all the Celsius your little heart desires.
401(k) retirement savings plan, including traditional, Roth 401(k), and after-tax deferral with company match up to 4%.