Senior Product Manager, Forward Deployed

Anduril Industries

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Work type
On-site
Location
Colorado Springs, COSeattle, WA
Salary
$144,000–$192,000 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Below market

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About Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that builds advanced hardware and software systems for national security, including autonomous drones, surveillance systems, and the Lattice AI command platform.

Anduril Industries currently has 920 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $166,000–$220,000 across 875 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Product Manager, Forward Deployed

The Senior Product Manager, Forward Deployed joins the Mission Command team within the Connected Warfare Division. This role involves embedding directly with military units to translate warfighter problems into fielded solutions, including applications, data models, user experiences, integrations, and infrastructure. You will act as a translation layer between operational users and engineering teams, mapping workflows and data dependencies to drive product development. Key responsibilities include conducting field research, designing for the tactical edge, and managing data models to solve complex command and control problems. Required skills include product scope definition, service design, and the ability to use tools like Figma. You must navigate technical constraints like bandwidth, latency, and compute while managing stakeholders across engineering and data teams to deliver cohesive, mission-oriented outcomes in a defense technology context.

What does a Product Manager earn in Washington?

Median $223300 from 111 postings across 23 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Embed with military units to identify critical problems and own the path to fielded solutions.
  • Build trusting relationships with warfighters and subject matter experts to understand actual combat workflows.
  • Conduct field research by observing real-time operations to translate user needs into clear product priorities.
  • Map user decisions, data dependencies, and system integrations to drive technical requirements and designs.
  • Design full-stack solutions including applications, data models, and infrastructure changes for the tactical edge.
  • Lead workshops and design sessions to align engineering, design, and operational teams on coherent answers.
  • Prototype ideas quickly with users to validate concepts before committing engineering resources.
  • Monitor fielded solutions in real-world conditions to identify failures and feed feedback back into the product.

What we're looking for

  • Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance.
  • 4 to 8 years of experience in product management, product scope definition, or service design.
  • Track record of translating technical and domain-specific information into narratives, CONOPS, mission threads, and feature definitions.
  • Experience conducting research and synthesis with users and SMEs to build product roadmaps.
  • History of earning trust with non-technical, operational users and partnering with them to solve problems.
  • Ability to balance needs across engineering, data, and business stakeholders.
  • Strong facilitation and whiteboarding skills, including leading interactive planning and decomposition sessions.
  • Ability to perform design work in common tools such as Figma.
  • Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time, including to field and training environments.
  • Military experience or direct experience working alongside operational military units (preferred).
  • Range of product experience across internal tools, customer-facing applications, and tools for technical users (preferred).
  • Working knowledge of data models, system integrations, networking, or distributed and edge systems (preferred).

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