Principal Product Manager - Sensor Hardware

Hidden Level is building the future of airspace awareness through RF sensing technology for defense and commercial applications. The company is seeking a Principal Product Manager to own the strategy, roadmap, requirements, and lifecycle of RF sensor products, translating customer and market needs into product priorities and leading cross-functional execution from concept through production and sustainment.

Responsibilities:

• Own the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and priorities for your Hidden Level sensor product
• Engage customers, operators, and internal stakeholders to understand missions, workflows, and unmet needs
• Partner with Sales and Growth leaders to combine customer and market needs with technical and business objectives to create clear product development priorities and measures of success
• Ensure the sensor roadmap remains aligned to adjacent products and the broader Hidden Level portfolio
• Partner with Technical Program Managers and Engineering leaders to turn product priorities into executable plans and deliver agreed capabilities on schedule and within budget
• Work closely with Engineering leaders to shape and understand the technical solutions that deliver product objectives
• Work with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Operations to design for manufacturability, testability, reliability, serviceability, and cost, and to transition products successfully into production
• Help prioritize development, manufacturing, quality, and sustaining-engineering needs based on customer impact, delivery risk, and business objectives
• Communicate product direction, decisions, status, tradeoffs, and risk clearly across technical, executive, and customer-facing teams
• Bridge technical and business objectives by supporting proposals, requests for information, and other strategic growth efforts
• Represent Hidden Level products in customer, partner, and industry engagements, clearly articulating their capabilities, differentiation, limitations, and direction
• Improve product management processes, tools, and operating rhythms to strengthen decision-making, alignment, and execution within the organization
• Contribute to consistent product management practices

Requirements:

• A Bachelor's degree in Engineering Management, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering or other relevant technical or management degree
• 10 or more years of combined relevant industry experience, including5or more years of progressive product management, technical product leadership, or closely related experience
• Technical fluency across integrated hardware and software systems, with the ability to work credibly with engineering teams
• Experience engaging customers and translating operational needs into clear requirements, priorities, and product decisions
• Strong analytical, communication, and leadership skills, including the ability to influence and lead
• Approximately 10%-20% travel may be required to support customers, field activities, partners, and manufacturing operations
• This role is ideally hybrid in Syracuse, NY, but we are open to considering remote candidates
• only U.S. citizens can be considered for this position
• Experience with RF sensing, radar, communications, electronic warfare, or related sensor technologies
• Experience bringing integrated hardware and software products from concept through production, deployment, and sustainment
• Experience with design for manufacturability, supply-chain risk, quality, product cost, reliability, or sustaining engineering
• Experience in defense, public safety, aviation, critical infrastructure, or other regulated and mission-critical markets
• Familiarity with government acquisition, proposal development, product economics, export controls, cybersecurity, or regulatory certification