Principal Product Manager

STR is a technology company specializing in advanced research and development for defense, intelligence, and national security. The Principal Product Manager is responsible for leading product development efforts, ensuring the delivery of operationally valuable solutions, and fostering collaboration among cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities:

• Engage directly with executive leaders, end users, build strong customer relationships, and constantly seek to apply new technology to solve real customer problems
• Empower the designers, engineers, and scientists to act with a meaningful degree of autonomy by developing and clearly communicating a unifying product vision and strategy
• Understand all stakeholders, the constraints in which those stakeholders operate, and create customer solutions that work within the constraints of the business
• Foster team collaboration to embrace the give and take between software functionality, user experience, and enabling technology
• Continuously improve the product discovery process to establish compelling value and identify key risks
• Hold high-integrity commitments to deliver viable solutions that work for the customer and business
• Work in a fast-paced environment to enable successful contract execution
• Build and mentor product managers across programs while continuously improving tooling and processes

Requirements:

• US Defense or Intelligence Community expert with deep operational knowledge
• Senior level experience in guiding technical projects to translate mission needs into production software while identifying and tracking product risk across multiple teams and customers
• Aptitude for collaborating with stakeholders across a wide range of technical comfort levels
• Proven ability to motivate cross functional teams to perform at their best
• Comfortable working with data and complex analysis
• Demonstrated success decomposing a problem into addressable component parts
• Entrepreneurial spirit and eager to engage in technical marketing and business development
• Experience writing technical proposals and leading winning proposal efforts
• A U.S. citizen with active security clearance
• Master's degree in a technical field or MBA
• Prior military experience with emphasis on planning and executing complex missions
• 3+ years experience in product management / product ownership for an operational production software implementation
• Deep enough understanding of full-stack software technologies to consider capabilities and limitations
• Experience working with visual design tools to communicate ideas
• Fluency with software development best practices and tools
• Active TS/SCI security clearance
• Located near STR office in Carlsbad, CA, Arlington, VA, Woburn, MA, or Denver, CO; location in Honolulu, HI preferred as well