Create the future of large-scale drone swarm command and control for the most powerful military ever.
Own the swarm software product roadmap at Swarm Aero. This includes C2 and autonomy across multiple domains. Define operational requirements and strategic priorities and process them into an optimal roadmap
Drive alignment between product vision, engineering capacity, and real-world operator needs, resolving conflicts with data and judgement
Author product requirements that engineering, QA, and mission teams can execute against without hand-holding, including edge cases, failure modes, and acceptance criteria
Own the backlog: sprint planning and sequencing decisions made in active partnership with stakeholders
Drive the release process from definition through deployment, including test planning, rollout, and post-release review
Drive operator & customer understanding at Swarm Aero. Lead discovery sessions with operators, mission planners, and integration partners to surface needs and validate assumptions. Logically develop new and creative solutions to key challenges and anticipate expensive mistakes.
Translate field observations and operator feedback into roadmap decisions with clear rationale
Serve as the connective tissue between engineering, QA, and executive leadership
Identify and partner with strategic external vendors and partners. Define goals and interfaces and manage dependency risk.

5+ years as a Product Manager owning a complex, technically deep product and not a feature area within a product
Shipped software in a mission-critical or operationally sensitive context where failure had real consequences (defense, aerospace, robotics, autonomy, industrial control systems, or equivalent)
Written PRDs for distributed systems, hardware-integrated software, or real-time data pipelines that engineers shipped from without significant re-interpretation
Managed competing priorities across multiple stakeholder groups in a high-ambiguity environment and made the call rather than deferred it
Directly conducted operator or end-user discovery interviews and demonstrably changed roadmap direction based on what you learned
Owned the post-release evaluation of features against defined success metrics and acted on what you found.

Product Manager

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