Senior Product Manager - Defense Autonomy and Perception

TurbineOne is pioneering resilient, edge-first autonomy, perception, and decision support for the modern warfighter. The Senior Product Manager will partner across various teams to define a multi-year vision for decision support and operationalize it into mission-ready releases.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the product management liaison across mission, sales/business development, product design, engineering leadership, technical program management, field engineering, information security, and various other disciplines so product decisions reflect operational realities, market needs, and technical constraints
• Help prioritize features across programs and products by evaluating mission impact, technical risk, customer value, and commercial/contract drivers; recommend tradeoffs and sequencing
• Help engineers and team leads make design and architecture selections by defining success criteria, documenting tradeoffs (cost, complexity, schedule, field operability), and facilitating technical decision reviews
• Monitor market and technology trends, gather competitive intelligence, and translate that insight into strategic product direction and roadmap choices
• Deeply engage with operators and field engineers; synthesize field feedback, demo learnings, and 'duct-tape' solutions into prioritized product work that reduces operational friction
• Vet contract asks and converts ambiguous requirements into sequenced milestones and deliverable product features aligned to strategic objectives
• Champion product-led enablement—create configuration patterns and UX/workflows that empower field teams to operate independently and increase unit self-sufficiency
• Partner with TPMs and engineering to de-risk delivery, maintain prioritized backlogs, define acceptance criteria, and run retrospectives to continuously improve
• Create concise product narratives to support sales, mission stakeholders, and leadership that explain tradeoffs, impact, and roadmap rationale

Requirements:

• Proven product leadership with ownership of roadmaps and delivery; domain preference for autonomy/edge AI, IoT, defense/fielded systems, or defense SaaS
• Strong technical literacy or engineering background; comfortable partnering with engineering managers/leadership and architects on system tradeoffs
• Deep field/customer orientation and experience converting operational feedback into product requirements
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize across a portfolio and to present clear tradeoffs and decisions
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills for aligning engineering, business development/sales, mission teams, and leadership
• Servant-leader and collaborative mindset: act as a peer to technical leads, support technical program managers, and build trust with sales and field teams
• Practical familiarity with product tooling and coordination practices (Jira or similar, RACI, etc.)
• Willingness to travel; mission-driven
• Experience with defense acquisition cycles, autonomy research, plugin/module architectures, or product-led enablement