Product Manager

Summary

Join Defense Unicorns' Product Management team and make a real impact on real people by taking radical ownership over real products that make a real impact on real people. You will report to the Director of Product and work with two teams delivering closely linked, yet diverse outcomes, one supporting an open-source tool and the other managing cloud-scale infrastructure. This role requires a passion for the intersection of business, open-source software, and national security. You will own product vision end-to-end, manage team expectations, establish and communicate vision and objectives, and balance customer, business, and technical priorities. Continuous learning and adapting to new responsibilities are essential. The position offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.

Responsibilities

• Passion for the intersection of business, open-source software, and national security
• Comfortable owning a product vision end-to-end and being accountable for delivering to several customer segments
• Managing the expectations and delivery of outcomes of unicorns engineers entrusted to you
• Establishing and clearly communicating vision and objectives at all levels of the company - from engineers to executives
• Continuously balance customer, business, and technical priorities with limited resources
• Synthesizing external customer requests into an internal product roadmap
• Discipline required to work in a fast-paced, remote environment
• Keep our Growth and Delivery teams aligned on roadmap and value proposition in order to support product pricing, customer segmentation, and customer needs
• Experience managing, updating and using task, information and code management tools like GitHub, Notion, Hubspot, Google Workspace, etc
• 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
• Experience working with and continuously delivering software under Agile software development principles
• Understand business strategy and adapt product strategy and roadmap to accomplish company objectives
• Comfortable presenting information in customer facing engagements
• Comfortable having technical conversations which engineering and design to trade off roadmap versus engineering effort needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Medium to medium-high technical understanding of Infrastructure as Code, K8s, platform tooling, multiple CSPs, and on-prem (AWS, Azure, vSphere, Nutanix, etc)
• Experience working with open source infrastructure management tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, Spacelift, etc
• An understanding of the needs of an open-source community
• Experience establishing a clear product roadmap and value proposition to prospective customers
• Knowledge of and experience with monetization models for open source software

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision
• Premiums are 100% Company Paid
• Health Reimbursement Account
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• 401k Retirement Plan
• Company Stock Options
• Home Office Budget
• Unlimited paid time off, with a mandatory 10 days off on top of 11 federal government holidays, week of Thanksgiving, last two weeks of December (including New Year’s Day)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
• Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)