Senior Manager Product

Job Summary

The Senior Product Manager, Unmanned Systems is equal parts strategic vision and focus on daily execution for a new EOIS family of thermal drone cameras engineered for UAV, UGV, and USV applications. This role owns the end-to-end product lifecycle, from strategy and roadmap through execution, launch, and sustainment. The ideal candidate possesses strong EO/IR and unmanned-systems domain knowledge and serves as a key voice-of-customer leader, aligning cross-functional teams (Engineering, Operations, Marketing, Finance, Contracts, and Business Development) to deliver differentiated products that win in OEM and integrator environments.

Job Responsibilities

•    Own the product lifecycle for unmanned-systems offerings: roadmap, requirements, business cases, launch plans, forecast and production alignment, and sustainment.
•    Develop product and market strategies using industry knowledge and market research to address current and emerging unmanned mission needs and platform integration constraints.
•    Define and prioritize roadmaps based on voice-of-customer inputs, competitive analysis, and SWaP-C tradeoffs relevant to UAV/UGV/USV payload integration (Group 1-3 UAV emphasis).
•    Partner with Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Manufacturing to deliver products on time/on budget, ensuring technical performance, schedule, and cost targets are met.
•    Lead product pricing and cost strategy (e.g., Price to Win and Design to Cost), collaborating with Finance/Cost Accounting and other functions to support profitable growth.
•    Establish and monitor product performance metrics (e.g., bookings, revenue, P&L/cashflow, and operational/marketing KPIs) and drive corrective actions as needed.
•    Enable sales with product training on positioning, competitive differentiators, and field-ready materials that support evaluations through design win and production ramp.
•    Serve as a primary customer interface for business discussions and initial technical questions; support key evaluations, demos, trade shows, and customer visits.
•    Identify and evaluate partner relationships and channel opportunities (platform OEMs, payload integrators, etc.) that strengthen the product line’s right-to-win.
•    Perform other duties as assigned. 

Qualifications

•    Bachelor’s degree preferred.
•    7+ years of related experience, and a minimum of 5 years of experience with direct product management responsibility
•    Demonstrated business and technical acumen.
•    Proven ability to establish strategic direction and plan and drive accountability.
•    Thorough understanding of product development and engineering processes.
•    Strong understanding of ISR payload requirements for UAV/UGV/USV, including SWaP-C tradeoffs and integration constraints.
•    Demonstrated success supporting OEM integration environments with long design-in cycles and production ramp dynamics (evaluation → design win → volume).
•    Strong knowledge of manufacturing, quality, and engineering processes to support technical product and customer engagements.
•    Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong presentation and executive briefing skills.
•    Understanding of Marketing Communications and Product Marketing; ability to collaborate on collateral such as application briefs, integration guides, case studies, and data sheets.
•    Strong customer relationship and interpersonal skills; ability to coordinate cross-functional teams to closure.
•    Willingness to travel domestically and internationally.