Product Manager

Terradepth is seeking a hands-on Product Manager to lead roadmaps, backlogs, and requirements across its cloud SaaS platform, edge-computing deployments, and ocean hardware and autonomy capabilities. The role connects Business Development, Marketing, Engineering, and executive leadership, translating customer and market needs into prioritized product decisions and actionable requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Connective Tissue & Cross-Functional Liaison: Serve as the primary hub aligning Business Development, Marketing, Engineering, and Executive leadership. Collect ground-truth market feedback from BD and clients, translate marketing vision and design philosophies into clear engineering context, and ensure outward-facing marketing materials accurately reflect true software/hardware capabilities
• Single Source of Truth for Roadmaps & Backlogs: Aggressively groom the product roadmap across hardware, software, edge, and hardware/autonomy integrations, keeping them current and visible to every team
• Market Problem Translation & Requirements Definition: Engage directly with targeted end users and customers to identify pervasive problems. Translate customer pain points into clear, traceable product requirements, use cases, user stories, rationale, and acceptance criteria while preserving the intuitive UI/UX that sets Absolute Ocean apart
• Executive & Engineering Alignment: Facilitate tight alignment between engineering leadership and product management on milestones, schedules, and technical tradeoffs. Prepare data-backed trade studies and decision briefs with the VP, based on market trends, customer impact, and company goals
• Industry Involvement & Customer Engagement: Participate alongside BD in industry conferences, customer meetings, and field demonstrations to gather firsthand market accounts. Distinguish essential market signals from noise to continuously refine product strategy
• Marketing & Operational Coordination: Collaborate with marketing and test engineering teams to coordinate operational media assets (e.g., UUV ocean operation filming during test milestones) and align product UI palettes with company design guidelines
• Pragmatic Prioritization: Run the prioritization process ("herding the cats") across competing stakeholder demands, weigh initiatives by revenue and strategic-market impact, and bring recommended trade-offs to the VP
• Customer Support & Release Operations: Own the product side of customer support, including the ticket workflow and knowledge base in HubSpot, and write release notes and customer-facing product updates. Handle day-to-day administration of product vendors and tools

Requirements:

• 5+ years of product management experience leading B2B SaaS products (this is not an entry-level PM role)
• Experience working with products that integrate hardware/appliances, robotics, autonomous systems, or edge computing
• Proven track record of translating complex customer requests into root-cause problem statements, traceable requirements, and clear acceptance criteria
• Hands-on expertise and fluency with modern agile tools, specifically Jira, Jira Product Discovery (JPD), and Confluence
• Demonstrated use of AI tools to accelerate product research, requirements development, analysis, prototyping, or product operations, with an understanding of how AI-enabled features are specified, tested, and evaluated
• Ability to evaluate product investments using customer value, revenue potential, strategic importance, technical effort, and opportunity cost
• Startup mindset: Demonstrated ability to make pragmatic trade-offs with limited time, budget, and resources while remaining flexible and collaborative
• Strong customer-facing presence with the ability to engage directly alongside sales teams and conduct customer discovery interviews
• U.S. citizenship
• Experience with defense, intelligence, or U.S. Government acquisition and customer sets
• Background or familiarity with geospatial data, GIS, oceanography, bathymetry, maritime domain awareness, or remote sensing
• Active Secret or Top Secret security clearance
• Experience delivering both cloud-native SaaS and edge/disconnected hardware solutions
• Strong credibility with technical engineering teams as well as executive sales and leadership teams
• Formal Product Management Training & Certification (e.g., Pragmatic Institute, SVPG, or equivalent) demonstrating a structured methodology for market research, requirements definition, and prioritization