Director of Product, Mission Solutions

Air•San Francisco, VA

About The Position

Air is hiring a Director of Product for a mission solution area, such as Acquisition and Production, Supply Chain and Sustainment, Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul, or Logistics. Reporting to the SVP of Product, this role owns product strategy end to end, builds on Air’s shared platform, and is accountable for readiness outcomes and winning and retaining customer accounts. The role is full-time and may be based in Arlington, VA; Pittsburgh, PA; San Francisco, CA; or elsewhere in the U.S. It may require up to 30% travel. The Director will understand how a mission operates in practice, identify where the platform can improve outcomes, and turn those opportunities into products customers adopt at scale. The role includes making portfolio-level trade-offs, translating real workflows into broadly adoptable solutions, and defining human–AI collaboration patterns. The Director will work closely with customers, domain experts, forward-deployed teams, Product, Engineering, Data, go-to-market, and the Core Platform team. They will also recruit and develop product managers and establish principles that enable effective decision-making across the team.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship.
Track record of owning a product line end to end, from strategy through delivery, and delivering business outcomes such as adoption, revenue, or account growth.
Portfolio-level thinking at business scale, including making trade-offs across teams and reframing problems to create a coherent whole.
Experience learning a technical or operational domain, co-creating with domain experts, and turning that work into a shipped product.
Hands-on fluency with AI products, including trade-offs between deterministic and agentic systems and how they fail.
Experience leading and developing product managers.
Experience in enterprise software, such as B2B SaaS, ERPs, or highly configurable specialized-industry platforms.

Nice To Haves

Background in supply chain, logistics, manufacturing, sustainment, acquisition, or industrial operations.
Current U.S. security clearance, or ability to obtain one with company sponsorship.
Experience designing products for defense, government, or the public sector.

Responsibilities

Own product strategy and outcomes for a mission area, connecting customer readiness needs with account acquisition and retention.
Make portfolio-level trade-offs and establish principles that guide product decisions across the team.
Reframe mission problems and own measurable outcomes, including adoption, expansion, and relevant readiness metrics; report results at the leadership level.
Map how work, data, and decisions move through the mission, including in depots, motorpools, and program offices, and use that understanding to shape the roadmap.
Translate real mission workflows into broadly adoptable product solutions built on the shared Air platform rather than one-off implementations.
Set human–AI collaboration patterns, defining what the system does autonomously, what it recommends, what requires human approval, and how users assess trustworthiness.
Bring customers, domain experts, and forward-deployed teams into product design through working sessions, live prototypes, and field visits.
Lead alignment across Product, Engineering, Data, and go-to-market when priorities compete.
Partner with the Core Platform team to use shared capabilities and contribute field learnings to the platform roadmap.
Recruit and develop product managers, raise product quality, and create clarity and principles that support independent decision-making.