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Product Operations Manager, Maritime

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)💼 Full-time💰 $112,000–$112,000🗓 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build and lead the Product Operations function to ensure reliability and readiness of autonomous maritime platforms (undersea vehicles, seabed sensors) by managing incident lifecycles, analyzing fleet telemetry, and driving system upgrades.

Role type

Senior Product Operations Manager (Maritime Systems)

Builds

Autonomous undersea and surface vehicle fleets (Dive-LD, Dive-XL, Copperhead, Seabed Sentry)

Domain

Defense technology / Maritime robotics / Electromechanical systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | client delivery | infrastructure

Required skills

Technical leadership, incident management, root cause analysis, fleet telemetry analysis, cross-functional collaboration, process standardization, debugging complex electromechanical issues

Preferred skills

Undersea munitions/UUV deployment experience, naval operations familiarity, Linux CLI, observability tools (Grafana, Jira), data analytics (SQL, Palantir), military/DoD experience, technical project management

Technologies

Lattice OS, Grafana, Jira, Git, Palantir Foundry, SQL

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor the Product Operations team to triage and resolve technical incidents; Partner with engineering to translate field failure data into system upgrades; Oversee collection and analysis of fleet health data to predict failures; Act as a translator between engineering, business stakeholders, and military operators; Manage communications for high-priority incidents; Standardize and scale sustainment operations playbooks

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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