About the position
Being a Product Manager at Defense Unicorns is more than just being part of the sparkliest Product team in defense tech. It means taking radical ownership over real products that make a real impact on real people. At Defense Unicorns, our mission is to make software a strategic deterrent, and our Product Management team clears the path. In this role, you’ll report to the Director of Product and work with two teams who deliver closely linked, yet diverse outcomes. One supports a popular and foundational open source tool, and the other manages cloud-scale infrastructure and creates tooling to make it easy for Defense Unicorns’ supported missions to consume it.
Responsibilities
- Passion for the intersection of business, open-source software, and national security
- Comfortable owning a product vision end-to-end and being accountable for delivering to several customer segments
- Managing the expectations and delivery of outcomes of unicorns engineers entrusted to you
- Establishing and clearly communicating vision and objectives at all levels of the company - from engineers to executives
- Continuously balance customer, business, and technical priorities with limited resources
- Synthesizing external customer requests into an internal product roadmap
- Discipline required to work in a fast-paced, remote environment
- Keep our Growth and Delivery teams aligned on roadmap and value proposition in order to support product pricing, customer segmentation, and customer needs
- Experience managing, updating and using task, information and code management tools like GitHub, Notion, Hubspot, Google Workspace, etc.
- Continuous learning is a must. Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in Product Management, DevOps, regulated IT, and the CNCF community
- Experience working with and continuously delivering software under Agile software development principles
- Understand business strategy and adapt product strategy and roadmap to accomplish company objectives
- Comfortable presenting information in customer facing engagements
- Comfortable having technical conversations which engineering and design to trade off roadmap versus engineering effort needed
Requirements
- Medium to medium-high technical understanding of Infrastructure as Code, K8s, platform tooling, multiple CSPs, and on-prem (AWS, Azure, vSphere, Nutanix, etc)
- Experience working with open source infrastructure management tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, Spacelift, etc
- An understanding of the needs of an open-source community
- Experience establishing a clear product roadmap and value proposition to prospective customers
- Knowledge of and experience with monetization models for open source software
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision premiums are 100% Company Paid
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Company Stock Options
- Home Office Budget
- Unlimited paid time off, with a mandatory 10 days off on top of 11 federal government holidays, week of Thanksgiving, last two weeks of December (including New Year’s Day)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
- Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)
