Product Manager

Join Defense Unicorns as a Product Manager, where you'll take radical ownership of impactful products that contribute to national security. You'll work closely with various teams, report to the Director of Product, and be responsible for creating and maintaining tooling and pipelines that support UDS application packaging. Enjoy benefits such as unlimited paid time off, 100% company-paid medical/dental/vision premiums, and company stock options.

About Defense Unicorns

Establishing and clearly communicating vision and objectives at all levels of the company - from engineers to executives

Responsibilities

• Establishing and clearly communicating vision and objectives at all levels of the company, from engineers to executives.
• Managing the expectations and delivery of outcomes of engineers entrusted to you, and owning a product vision end-to-end.
• Understanding business strategy and adapting product strategy and roadmap to accomplish company objectives, while balancing customer, business, and technical priorities.
• Managing the expectations and delivery of outcomes of unicorns engineers entrusted to you
• Comfortable owning a product vision end-to-end and being accountable for delivering to several customer segments, including both paid and OSS
• Understand business strategy and adapt product strategy and roadmap to accomplish company objectives
• Participate in and foster open source communities around Defense Unicorns’ open source projects
• Synthesizing external customer requests into an internal product roadmap
• Continuous learning is a must. Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in Product Management, DevOps, regulated IT, and the CNCF community
• Keep our Growth and Delivery teams aligned on roadmap and value proposition in order to support product pricing, customer segmentation, and customer needs

Requirements

• We are seeking a dynamic individual who is able to adapt and take on new responsibilities as they arise
• Passion for the intersection of business, open-source software, and national security
• Comfortable having technical conversations which engineering and design to trade off roadmap versus engineering effort needed
• Experience managing, updating and using task, information and code management tools like GitHub, Notion, Hubspot, Google Workspace, etc
• Continuously balance customer, business, and technical priorities with limited resources
• Discipline required to work in a fast-paced, remote environment
• Experience working with and continuously delivering software under Agile software development principles

Comfortable presenting information in customer facing engagements

• A deep understanding of how DevSecOps pipelines operate and the tools which make them work
• An understanding of core Kubernetes concepts, specifically images, Helm charts, and related technologies
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to leverage data and metrics for informed decision-making
• Knowledge of and experience with monetization models for open source software
• Experience establishing a clear product roadmap and value proposition to prospective customers

Pay

USD 170,850 - 231,150