Fortress Information Security is seeking a Senior Product Manager for the Department of War, responsible for leading product strategy and executing on products that enhance military readiness and decision-making. The role involves collaborating with various teams to deliver compliant and high-quality products while overseeing the product lifecycle and communicating progress to stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the product vision and roadmap for capabilities supporting Department of War, ensuring alignment with operational needs and evolving defense priorities
- Convert user insights, field requirements, and program objectives into clear product direction and measurable outcomes
- Partner with engineering, design, and data teams to deliver secure, reliable, and high-quality products optimized for mission use
- Oversee the product lifecycle to ensure ongoing reliability, sustainment, and continuous improvement across mission-critical capabilities
- Define success metrics, analyze performance, and refine product decisions based on data, user feedback, and mission impact
- Communicate progress and strategic recommendations to executives and government stakeholders while representing the voice of military users across the organization
Requirements:
- 5+ years of product management (or equivalent) experience, ideally with complex enterprise or government-facing products
- Strong analytical, strategic, and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach
- Excellent leadership and communication abilities, with experience influencing cross-functional teams
- Ability to understand DoD mission needs, acquisition processes, and technical requirements. Includes familiarity with FAR/DFARS, compliance frameworks (NIST, CMMC), program offices, and how federal contract vehicles operate
- Technical fluency (APIs, AI/ML, data models, architecture, scaling) and comfort working closely with engineering
- Customer-obsessed approach with experience gathering insights through interviews, research, and usability testing, especially with high-stakes user groups
- Familiarity with agile/lean methodologies and modern product development practices
- Active clearance preferred; ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance (required)
- Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, information technology, supply chain, business administration or equivalent professional work experience required
- Prior experience working within federal, defense, or high-growth technology environments
- Experience with AI/ML features, data-driven products, or platform ecosystems
- Experience with Jira, Looker, MongoDB, Postgres, Aha!, etc
- Previous startup-scale or high-growth company experience