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Senior Product Manager, Manufacturing Software

Santa Ana, CA (OC-42)Full-time2026-10-21 → 2026-10-22
U.S. persons only (export control)

Core

Own product strategy, roadmap, and deployment of factory floor applications for production operators, supervisors, and manufacturing engineers in a shipbuilding environment.

Role type

Senior Product Manager (Manufacturing Software)

Builds

Software-defined shipyard systems including manufacturing execution systems (MES), scheduling engines, and data infrastructure for heavy metal division.

Domain

Defense manufacturing / Shipbuilding / Operational Technology (OT) & Information Technology (IT) convergence

Required skills

Product strategy & roadmap planning, requirements gathering (functional & non-functional), stakeholder management, factory floor user research, cross-team alignment, backlog prioritization, MVP to enterprise-grade product maturation, export control compliance navigation

Preferred skills

Hardware industry domain expertise, ERP/MES/PLM system knowledge, rapid development cycle adaptation

Technologies

ArsenalOS, Lattice OS, ERP, WMS, MES, PLM, supplier portals

Responsibilities

Craft long-term product strategy and roadmap; Gather and refine requirements into prioritized backlogs; Walk factory floors to observe workflows and validate solutions; Navigate organizational dynamics between production teams and platform teams; Drive adoption and enablement of manufacturing software; Balance requirements across engineering, design, data, and business stakeholders

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC