Senior Product Development Manager

Red Cat Holdings is seeking a Senior Product Development Manager to join our Global Product Development team. The role involves unifying and scaling product development across subsidiaries, ensuring delivery of unmanned technology through standardized practices.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a strategic advisor to Product Managers within Teal Drones, FlightWave, Blue Ops, Apium, and other teams. Aid them in defining and executing their individual product roadmaps while ensuring alignment with the broader Red Cat vision
• Create, maintain, and evangelize standardized Product Development practices across the entire Red Cat family. Develop and implement a common set of processes, templates, and tools (e.g., PRD templates, gate review structures, and NPI checklists) to drive consistency and quality
• Support Red Cat leadership by building and maintaining integrated master schedules and timelines. Consolidate milestones from all subsidiaries to provide a single, transparent view of the portfolio’s progress, risks, and dependencies
• Identify opportunities to leverage common tools and platforms across subsidiaries to reduce redundancy and accelerate time-to-market for air and maritime systems
• Lead the 'Global Product Development' onboarding for newly acquired companies, integrating their existing workflows into the standardized Red Cat framework

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in technical, product, or project management field. Equivalent fields include: Business Administration, Engineering, Manufacturing, Marketing, or Operations
• 7+ years in product development or program management, with a heavy focus on hardware-software integration specifically within a holding company or multi-subsidiary environment. 11+ years of directly related work experience in lieu of a degree
• Proven track record of building and scaling standardized product development lifecycles (e.g., Phase-Gate, Agile-Hardware) across disparate teams
• Expert-level proficiency in creating Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) and managing complex, multi-layered timelines
• A 'servant-leader' approach with the ability to influence and support Product Managers who may report to different business units
• Familiarity with the unique challenges of unmanned systems (UAVs/USVs), including defense compliance, hardware-software integration, and aerospace manufacturing
• Experience in M&A integration, specifically merging product development cultures and toolsets
• Advanced proficiency in portfolio management tools (e.g., Jira Align, Smartsheet, or Microsoft Project)
• Deep understanding of Red Cat's Family of Systems and its role in all-domain defense