Product Manager

Defense Unicorns

3d • $170,850 - $231,150 • Remote

About The Position

Defense Unicorns is seeking a Product Manager to take end-to-end 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 business-enabling outcomes that support company missions and internal teams. The team primarily creates and maintains tooling and pipelines for UDS application packaging and maintains packages that form part of the company’s core software deliverables.

The Product Manager owns product vision and delivery across paid and open-source customer segments, aligns customer and business needs with engineering priorities, and translates customer requests into an internal roadmap. The role also helps Growth and Delivery teams stay aligned on roadmap and value proposition to support pricing, customer segmentation, and customer needs. Work takes place in a fast-paced remote environment and involves open-source communities, customer-facing engagements, and collaboration with engineering and design.

Defense Unicorns creates secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery, including security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation. Its work encompasses Kubernetes and cloud environments, infrastructure-as-code, continuous delivery and automation, GitOps, containers, CNCF projects, and cloud-native applications.

Requirements

• Passion for the intersection of business, open-source software, and national security.
• Ability to take ownership and adapt to new responsibilities as organizational needs evolve.
• Discipline to work in a fast-paced, remote environment.
• Experience using task, information, and code management tools such as GitHub, Notion, HubSpot, and Google Workspace.
• Experience working with and continuously delivering software under Agile software development principles.
• Ability to understand business strategy and adapt product strategy and roadmaps to company objectives.
• Comfort presenting information in customer-facing engagements.
• Ability to engage in technical conversations with engineering and design about roadmap tradeoffs and engineering effort.

Nice To Haves

• Deep understanding of how DevSecOps pipelines operate and the tools used to build them.
• Understanding of core Kubernetes concepts, specifically 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 paid and open-source customer segments.
• Manage expectations and delivery outcomes of engineers entrusted to the product.
• Establish and communicate vision and objectives throughout the company, from engineers to executives.
• Balance customer, business, and technical priorities with limited resources.
• Synthesize 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 industry trends and best practices in Product Management, DevOps, regulated IT, and the CNCF community.
• Work with teams continuously delivering software under Agile development principles.
• Understand business strategy and adapt product strategy and roadmap to accomplish company objectives.
• Present information in customer-facing engagements.
• Discuss technical tradeoffs with engineering and design, including roadmap priorities and the engineering effort required.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with premiums 100% company paid.
• Health Savings Account.
• Life insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Company stock options.
• Home office budget.
• Flexible Time Off for full-time employees.
• Federal holidays, one week off for Thanksgiving, and two weeks off for Christmas and New Year’s.
• Paid parental leave.
• Reimbursement for approved trainings and subscriptions.
• Conference travel, lodging, and fees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed