Defense Unicorns

Defense Unicorns

Product Manager

United States - Remote · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$118k-$160kDetected 12 days ago
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About the role

  • This role requires a unique blend of collaboration, technical expertise and passion for software.
  • You will be responsible for managing a team of talented engineers, guiding them towards delivering high-impact solutions that influence national security while operating in a fast-paced, fully remote environment.
  • We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and mentor a team of engineers, including career development and performance management
  • Prioritize and manage the product backlog, balancing customer, business, and technical priorities with limited resources
  • Build and maintain alignment with the Growth team on roadmap, value proposition, product pricing, customer segmentation, and customer needs
  • Collaborate with engineering and design to evaluate tradeoffs between roadmap priorities and engineering effort
  • Facilitate agile ceremonies and drive prioritization, value delivery, and roadmap alignment across the team
  • If you're passionate about leveraging technology to drive positive change and thrive in a challenging, collaborative environment, we invite you to apply and join our team.

Requirements

  • 5+ years managing software, platform engineering, or SRE teams
  • Familiarity with DoD cybersecurity authorization processes such as ATO, FedRAMP, or continuous monitoring requirements
  • Experience with DevSecOps tooling, software supply chain security concepts, or compliance automation
  • Knowledge of and experience with monetization models for open source software
  • Proficiency with backlog and project management tools such as Linear, Jira, GitHub Projects, or GitLab
  • Experience working in agile software development environments
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Passion for the intersection of business, open-source software, and national security
  • High-level understanding of Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, platform tooling, and cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, etc.)
  • Experience establishing a clear product roadmap and value proposition for prospective customers
  • Ability to work independently, manage time efficiently, and thrive in a remote work environment

Nice to have

  • Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)
  • Preferred Experience and Qualifications:
  • Preferred Experience and
  • Hands-on technical experience with platform or software engineering a plus

Compensation

  • Full compensation packages are based on candidate experience.

Benefits

  • Medical/Dental/Vision
  • Health Savings Account
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • 401k Retirement Plan
  • Company Stock Options
  • Home Office Budget
  • Own the product vision end-to-end and be accountable for delivering outcomes across multiple customer segments, including software vendors, government evaluators, and platform operators

Company info

  • Kubernetes
  • Cloud Environments (AWS/GCP and Azure)
  • Infrastructure-as-code (like Terraform/Pulumi)
  • Continuous Delivery and automation tooling
  • GitOps
  • Containers
  • CNCF projects and open source products and packages
  • Helm/Kustomize-Value Stream Mapping
  • Building and improving security delivery
  • Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges.
  • Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user experience and optionality, without compromising security.
  • Our team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market.
  • We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery.

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