Technical Product Manager

We’re building next-generation networking and software products where real-world constraints (latency, intermittent links, security, limited compute) meet mission-grade reliability. We have active customer contracts today and a bigger cohesive product vision we’re executing toward.

As our Technical Product Manager, you’ll be the connective tissue between leadership vision, engineering execution, and customer outcomes. You’ll take strategic direction from the President/CTO, translate it into product strategy, roadmaps, requirements, and release plans, and help the technical team deliver consistently while ensuring contract work incrementally builds toward a unified product line.

What you’ll do

• Turn vision into product: Translate leadership intent into clear product narratives, epics, requirements, and priorities that engineering can execute.

• Unify contract work into a platform: Decompose contract deliverables into reusable capabilities, define common interfaces, and guide teams toward a cohesive architecture and roadmap.

• Own the roadmap + releases: Maintain product roadmap, release plans, and milestone tracking; balance near-term contract commitments with longer-term product investments.

• Run product execution ceremonies: Drive backlog grooming, sprint planning support, dependency tracking, and decision logs; remove ambiguity so engineers can build.

• Customer + stakeholder alignment: Gather and synthesize customer needs (DoD/commercial), manage expectations, and communicate tradeoffs with clarity.

• Define “done” and drive quality: Establish acceptance criteria, demo readiness, documentation standards, and product-level test expectations.

• Measure outcomes: Define success metrics (performance, reliability, usability, adoption), monitor progress, and steer adjustments.

• Partner with technical leadership: Work closely with engineering leads/architects to ensure roadmap aligns to technical reality, and that technical debt is addressed deliberately.

You’ll be successful if…

• In the first 30–60 days, you can map our existing contracts into a single capability model (platform capabilities + customer-specific integrations).

• Within 90 days, we have a real roadmap: releases, owners, dependencies, and clear tradeoffs and the team is executing against it.

• Within 6 months, contract delivery is accelerating the product line instead of fragmenting it.

Must-have qualifications

• 5+ years in product management for technical products (ideally networking, Cloud, DevOps, comms, infrastructure software, or defense tech).

• Demonstrated ability to work directly with engineers on ambiguous, systems-level products (not just UI features).

• Strong capability in requirements writing: user stories, epics, acceptance criteria, and translating technical constraints into product decisions.

• Experience balancing customer-funded delivery with building reusable product capabilities (platform thinking).

• Excellent stakeholder management: you can communicate tradeoffs, timelines, and risk without drama.

• Familiarity with Agile execution and tools (Jira/Confluence or equivalent) and with shipping in iterative releases.

• U.S. Citizenship required (and ability to obtain/maintain a clearance if applicable).

Nice to have

• DevOps, Cloud, SATCOM or RF domain familiarity (link constraints, latency, variability, terminals/gateways).

• Networking knowledge (IPv4/IPv6, routing/tunneling, QoS, security patterns).

• Experience in government contracting environments (requirements-heavy stakeholders, compliance, demo cycles).

• Technical background (engineering degree or prior engineering role).

• Experience writing product docs: PRDs, concept of operations, roadmaps, release notes, and customer-facing technical briefs.

Working style / expectations

• You operate with high ownership: you don’t wait to be told what to do you build clarity, align people, and drive execution.

• You’re comfortable with fast iteration and imperfect info.

• You keep the team focused, honest, and shipping.