Technical Product Manager
About The Position
Zaden Technologies is looking for a Technical Product Manager to own the critical bridge between engineering execution and customer-ready software. At Zaden, product direction and delivery discipline are the same job — you'll define and protect MVP scope, drive the roadmap, and own the cadence that ships it. Reporting directly to the CEO, this is an individual contributor role with a clear, direct growth path to Head of Product. We're hiring for the function and the skill, not the title — if you've been doing this work under a different name (Senior PM, Product Lead, Technical Program Manager), we want to hear from you.
Requirements
- U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain a security clearance
- 5+ years of product management or equivalent product delivery experience
- Demonstrated track record of taking a product from zero to one inside a complex organization with real stakeholders, competing priorities, and constraints
- Proven experience shipping software to paying customers — you know the difference between "capability exists" and "product is ready to sell"
- Technical fluency: able to hold scope conversations with engineers, read a pull request, and recognize when "almost done" is actually weeks away
- Proficiency with roadmap and delivery tools such as Jira, Linear, GitLab, etc
- Hands-on experience with AI assistants and agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor, or Copilot) in daily work
- Experience in high-stakes, multi-stakeholder, regulated environments (defense, aerospace, government-adjacent, healthcare, finance, or similar)
- Bachelor's degree in a technical or quantitative field (computer science, software or systems engineering, information systems, electrical or mechanical engineering) or equivalent hands-on product experience
Nice To Haves
- Active security clearance
- Familiarity with DoD, federal research labs, or federal procurement, or enterprise software sold into government
- Experience delivering against government contract schedules or SBIR milestones
- Background in aerospace, defense tech, or engineering automation software
- Exposure to MBSE, systems engineering, or model-based workflows
- Familiarity with MBSE/SysML tooling such as Cameo/MagicDraw or SysML v2
- Proficiency with product analytics tools such as Amplitude or Mixpanel, plus enough SQL to pull your own answers
- Experience with design and collaboration tools: Figma, Miro, Confluence, or Notion
- Cloud platform experience with AWS or Azure (GovCloud a plus)
- Master's degree in a technical field or MBA with a technology focus
- Product or agile certification (CSPO, Pragmatic Institute, or SAFe) or cloud certification (AWS or Azure)
Responsibilities
- Define and hold the MVP cut line for each product — no scope creep, no pre-launch feature drift
- Own and maintain the product roadmap across the full product portfolio in partnership with engineering
- Maintain an always-on demo environment; "demo-able in staging" is your definition of done
- Translate requirements from federal and enterprise customers into prioritized, precise engineering tickets
- Run structured user research and drive product decisions from evidence, not opinion
- Hold the honest line between selling the future and demoing the now
- Coordinate go-to-market timing for each shippable slice with sales and leadership
- Communicate fluidly in two directions — brief program managers in their language, write precise tickets for developers
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
