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.