Product Manager

Defense Unicorns

14d•Remote

About The Position

Defense Unicorns is seeking a Product Manager to take ownership of products that support its mission to make software a strategic deterrent. Reporting to the Director of Product, this role works with teams delivering outcomes that enable the business, support its missions, and serve internal teams. The team creates and maintains tooling and pipelines for UDS application packaging and maintains packages that make up core software deliverables. The Product Manager owns product vision and delivery for multiple customer segments, including paid and open-source users, and aligns customer, business, and technical priorities in a fast-paced remote environment.

Requirements

Passion for the intersection of business, open-source software, and national security.
Ability to take ownership and adapt to new responsibilities in a fast-paced, remote environment.
Experience working with and continuously delivering software under Agile software development principles.
Experience using and managing task, information, and code management tools such as GitHub, Notion, HubSpot, and Google Workspace.
Ability to communicate product vision and objectives across technical and executive audiences.
Ability to balance customer, business, and technical priorities and synthesize customer requests into a roadmap.
Comfort presenting in customer-facing engagements and discussing technical tradeoffs with engineering and design.

Nice To Haves

Deep understanding of how DevSecOps pipelines operate and the tools that support them.
Understanding of core Kubernetes concepts, particularly images, Helm charts, and related technologies.
Excellent analytical skills and ability to use data and metrics to inform decisions.
Experience establishing a clear product roadmap and value proposition for prospective customers.
Knowledge of and experience with monetization models for open-source software.

Responsibilities

Participate in and foster open-source communities around Defense Unicorns’ open-source projects.
Own product vision end-to-end and be accountable for delivery across several customer segments, including paid and open-source customers.
Manage expectations and delivery outcomes for engineers entrusted to the product.
Establish and clearly communicate vision and objectives across the company, from engineers to executives.
Balance customer, business, and technical priorities with limited resources.
Translate external customer requests into an internal product roadmap.
Keep Growth and Delivery teams aligned on the roadmap and value proposition to support product pricing, customer segmentation, and customer needs.
Use and manage task, information, and code management tools such as GitHub, Notion, HubSpot, and Google Workspace.
Stay current with trends and best practices in Product Management, DevOps, regulated IT, and the CNCF community.
Work with and continuously deliver software under Agile software development principles.
Understand business strategy and adapt product strategy and roadmap to accomplish company objectives.
Present information in customer-facing engagements.
Hold technical conversations with engineering and design to weigh roadmap priorities against engineering effort.