Sr. Product Manager

Istari Digital builds the connective tissue for defense acquisition. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager to own a significant piece of their platform, working closely with customers and a strong engineering team to define and deliver product features that solve real problems.

Responsibilities:

• Own a product area end to end: define what success means, build and manage the roadmap, and make the calls on what to build next and what not to build at all
• Take a collection of features and create coherence — a product customers understand and a narrative the company can sell
• Do real customer research: get in front of users, understand their workflows and constraints, and turn what you learn into product decisions
• Work day to day with a senior engineering team — write crisp specs, make fast decisions when they’re blocked, and protect their time from everything that isn’t the work
• Partner with our Head of Product on strategy: bring the evidence, argue for a direction, and help decide where the product goes next
• Communicate with senior stakeholders inside and outside the company — customers, sales, leadership — and represent your area credibly to all of them

Requirements:

• 4+ years of product management experience at a company known for shipping excellent product at speed — think Stripe, Ramp, Datadog, or an equivalent high-caliber environment
• A track record of taking complicated, ambiguous features from idea to shipped with minimal direction. You've been handed a hard problem and come back with a good answer
• Comfort in technical domains. You've built products for technical users, or products with real infrastructure underneath them, and you can go deep enough to earn an engineer's trust
• Strong customer instincts. You'd rather talk to five users than read fifty tickets, and you know how to turn research into decisions
• Directness. When asked for your best guess, you give it — you don't hedge. You'd rather say 'we're doing this wrong, here's what I'd do instead' than make people guess what you think
• Speed and ownership. You take responsibility for outcomes, not activity, and you move fast enough that the team never waits on you
• Experience as the PM for a CLI-based tool, SDK, or other developer-facing product
• Experience as the PM for a desktop or client application — client software is weird in ways that web/SaaS experience doesn't cover, and we'd benefit from someone who has spent time in those trenches
• Deep technical experience with cloud or security infrastructure, especially on products sold to engineers (B2B tooling for data processing, cloud services, and the like)
• Background in aerospace, defense, digital engineering, or other regulated domains
• Must be a US citizen living within the United States