Director of Product, Mission Solutions

Air•Pittsburgh, PA

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. The role owns product strategy end to end, building on Air’s shared platform to improve readiness outcomes and win and retain customer accounts. The Director contributes to decisions about what to build and develops the product managers responsible for delivery. The role involves understanding how mission work currently happens, identifying how the platform can improve outcomes, and turning those insights into products customers adopt at scale. This includes shaping portfolio-level priorities, mapping workflows and decisions, translating them into broadly adoptable solutions, defining human–AI collaboration patterns, and working closely with customers, domain experts, forward-deployed teams, and internal partners. The Director reports to the SVP of Product. The position is full time and may be based in the office in Arlington, Virginia; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; San Francisco, California; or anywhere in the United States. It may require up to 30% travel. U.S. citizenship is required.

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 understanding 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 growing 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 for defense, government, or the public sector.

Responsibilities

Own product strategy and outcomes for a mission solution area, connecting the strategy to customer readiness and Air’s ability to win and retain accounts.
Make portfolio-level trade-offs so individual product investments form a coherent solution.
Reframe mission problems and establish principles that guide team decisions.
Own and report measurable outcomes, including adoption, expansion, and relevant readiness metrics.
Map how work, data, and decisions move across mission settings and use those insights to shape the roadmap.
Translate mission workflows into broadly adoptable product solutions built on the shared platform rather than one-off implementations.
Define human–AI collaboration patterns, including what the system executes, recommends, or requires a person to approve, and how users can assess trustworthiness.
Involve customers, domain experts, and forward-deployed teams early through working sessions, live prototypes, and field visits.
Align Product, Engineering, Data, and go-to-market teams 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 establish principles that enable the team to make decisions independently.