Principal Product Manager - Remote Eligible

Principal Product Manager

Information processing and sense-making systems are the lifeblood of national security efforts, facilitating an understanding of the global situation, strategic planning, and tactical execution. The reliability, accessibility, and sophistication of these systems can determine the outcomes of conflicts before they begin. STR's Analytics and Command & Control (AC2) Division focuses on developing actionable, advanced technology solutions to provide asymmetric advantages within the information domain.

The Mission Applications (MA) Group within the AC2 Division specializes in ensuring the technology that STR creates produces outsized mission impact. Staff within the MA group have a deep understanding of missions and technology needs for national security with skills targeting transition of technology to operational use, including product management, user experience design, integration and mission engineering, DevSecOps, and program management. MA staff combine with other science and engineering staff from the various STR research and development groups to form dedicated product teams focused on accelerating the operational transition of cutting-edge software technologies.

As a Principal Product Manager in the MA Group, you are a leader who is passionate about collaborating with high-performance teams to solve unique national security challenges with novel technologies. The principal product manager is accountable for the ultimate success of the product and is responsible for ensuring that what is developed and delivered to customers is operationally valuable. The key capabilities of the principal product manager are: 1) expertise on the customer's challenges, desires, workflows, and acquisition processes, 2) expertise on the product and the leveraged technologies, 3) understanding of STR's business and the role the product plays, and 4) deep knowledge of the market and industry, including trends, customer expectations and competition.

The Principal Product Management role requires creativity and strong intellectual curiosity in applying new technologies to solve customer problems. Because the technologies we bring to market often represent the state of the art and may involve process changes, additional key skills for the Principal Product Manager include persistence and strong communication to drive cross-functional collaboration. Finally, the Principal Product Manager plays a key role in developing business strategy, business development, and growing the team.

Engage directly with end users, build strong customer relationships, and constantly seek to apply new technology to solve real customer problems

Empower the designers, engineers, and scientists to act with a meaningful degree of autonomy by developing and clearly communicating a unifying product vision and strategy

Understand all stakeholders, the constraints in which those stakeholders operate, and create customer solutions that work within the constraints of the business

Foster team collaboration to embrace the give and take between software functionality, user experience, and enabling technology

Continuously improve the product discovery process to establish compelling value and identify key risks

Hold high-integrity commitments to deliver viable solutions that work for the customer and business

Work in a fast-paced environment to enable successful contract execution

Build and mentor product managers across programs while continuously improving tooling and processes

US Defense or Intelligence Community expert with deep operational knowledge

Senior level experience in guiding technical projects to translate mission needs into production software while identifying and tracking product risk across multiple teams and customers

Aptitude for collaborating with stakeholders across a wide range of technical comfort levels

Proven ability to motivate cross functional teams to perform at their best

Comfortable working with data and complex analysis

Demonstrated success decomposing a problem into addressable component parts

Entrepreneurial spirit and eager to engage in technical marketing and business development

Experience writing technical proposals and leading winning proposal efforts

BS degree with a minimum of 10+ years experience or equivalent experience

This position requires an active Secret security clearance, for which U.S. citizenship is needed by U.S. Government

Master's degree in a technical field or MBA

Prior military experience with emphasis on planning and executing complex missions

3+ years experience in product management / product ownership for an operational production software implementation

Deep enough understanding of full-stack software technologies to consider capabilities and limitations

Experience working with visual design tools to communicate ideas

Fluency with software development best practices and tools

Active TS/SCI security clearance

Full-time salary range: $187,000-257,000

The salary range listed is based on external market data. Offers are based on factors, such as but not limited to, the candidate's experience, education, training, key skills/critical skills, security clearances, and prevailing market and business conditions.