Senior Product Manager, Manufacturing Software

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

10h

About The Position

The Senior Product Manager for Manufacturing Software will own product strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for factory-floor applications used by production operators, supervisors, and manufacturing engineers. The role also owns deploying these products on the factory floor and works directly with shipbuilding personnel to ensure the software fits their workflows.

The position sets a 6–12-month product vision and roadmap, aligns stakeholders, manages expectations, makes product decisions, and balances competing priorities with engineering, design, and operations partners. It involves onsite research with technicians and operators, identifying underlying user needs, documenting workflows, and translating findings into scoped requirements and success hypotheses.

The Product Manager will guide products from design through delivery and deployment, including adoption and support. The work spans functional and non-functional requirements, complex integrations and dependencies, buy-versus-build decisions, and collaboration with partner platform teams. The role supports manufacturing software used in Anduril’s software-defined shipyard and production operations.

Requirements

• 8+ years in software product management or a similar product-development leadership role.
• Domain expertise in a hardware-related industry such as manufacturing, supply chain, warehousing, or logistics.
• Demonstrated ability to gather and refine functional and non-functional requirements, including capacity, performance, and reliability, and turn them into a prioritized backlog.
• Strong understanding of enterprise systems, including ERP, WMS, MES, PLM, and supplier portals.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to work with stakeholders with varying levels of technical comfort and assess the underlying need behind requests.
• Demonstrated success working directly with end users in operational environments, including firsthand observation of production or factory-floor workflows.
• Ability to navigate cross-team and cross-department dynamics, represent customer needs, and build alignment when priorities differ.
• Ability to balance requirements across engineering, design, data, and business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success decomposing problems into addressable components and sequencing the work appropriately.
• Ability to craft product strategy 6 to 12 months into the future.
• Comfort maturing a product from MVP to enterprise-grade production.
• Must be able to travel up to 25% of the time.
• U.S. Person status is required because the position needs access to export-controlled data.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building or owning manufacturing execution systems (MES), shop-floor control systems, or operational software for factory, warehouse, or field environments.
• Hands-on manufacturing industry experience, including time on assembly lines or in production facilities working directly with operators and technicians.
• Experience with UI/UX web design tools such as Figma.
• Familiarity with frontier AI tooling and AI-assisted software development workflows.
• Experience in hyper-growth, startup-like environments, balancing speed, ambiguity, and long-term platform health.
• Background in operations research, industrial engineering, lean manufacturing, or continuous improvement methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop a long-term product strategy that accounts for product tradeoffs, integration dependencies, and buy-versus-build decisions.
• Gather and refine functional and non-functional requirements, including capacity, performance, and reliability, and translate them into a prioritized backlog.
• Communicate roadmap and delivery plans to stakeholders and determine whether requests address underlying user needs.
• Conduct onsite research on the factory floor by speaking with technicians and operators and observing their workflows.
• Navigate relationships with partner platform teams and advocate for Maritime Digital Production customer needs.
• Explore and incorporate technologies that improve Anduril's operational leverage.
• Drive adoption and enablement of manufacturing software across production and operations teams.
• Own product strategy, roadmap, success metrics, and deployment for factory-floor applications.
• Set product outcomes with engineering, design, and operations partners, adjusting priorities as new information emerges.
• Translate user research and product data into well-scoped requirements and success hypotheses.
• Communicate product goals, manage stakeholder expectations, and escalate significant tradeoffs and decisions.
• Guide products from design through delivery, deployment, adoption, and floor support.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

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