CareerPlan

Senior Product Manager, Forwarded Deployed

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)Full-time$166k2026-10-06 → 2026-11-10

Core

Own the path from warfighter problems to fielded solutions for command and control tools, acting as a translation layer between operational units and engineering teams.

Role type

Senior Product Manager (Forward Deployed)

Builds

Command and control (C2) applications, data models, user experiences, and integrations for military units.

Domain

Defense technology / Military operations / AI & Autonomous systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Warfighter problem ownership, field embedding, trust building with operational users, workflow mapping, cross-stack design, data model reasoning, tactical edge constraints, stakeholder facilitation, rapid prototyping, iterative fielding, pattern recognition

Preferred skills

Military experience, Army staff processes knowledge, distributed/edge systems expertise, ambiguity tolerance

Technologies

Lattice OS, Figma, Mesh networking, data models

Responsibilities

Embed with units to learn missions and map workflows; translate operational needs into product requirements; design solutions across applications, data, and infrastructure; facilitate workshops and drive decisions; prototype and iterate based on field feedback; identify reusable patterns across programs.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC