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We develop next-generation software that enables autonomous orchestration of heterogeneous unmanned systems across air, sea, land, and space for defence, intelligence, and commercial customers. Joining NODA means working on high-impact systems that go from prototype to fielded capability.\nAbout the Role\nNODA AI is seeking a Senior Product Manager to own the products and workflows that turn mission intent into executable plans for autonomous systems. This is a highly technical, customer-facing product role at the intersection of mission planning, command and control, autonomy, and real-world operations. Our users operate in environments where software must do more than be intuitive. It must help operators translate mission intent into executable plans, synchronize actions across systems and platforms, understand risks and constraints, and adapt as conditions change. You will bring a deep understanding of how operators plan and execute missions today and help define how those workflows evolve as autonomous and multi-domain systems become increasingly central to operations. We are looking for someone who understands mission planning software, command-and-control systems, and operational workflows, ideally through direct experience with systems such as Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS), FalconView, Portable Flight Planning Software (PFPS), other comparable DoD mission planning or C2 products, and commercial ground control stations such as QGroundControl.\nThis is a hands-on, senior individual contributor role with significant product ownership. You will spend time with operators, work shoulder-to-shoulder with Engineering and Design, participate in field exercises and customer deployments, and see firsthand how the product performs in operational environments. You will serve as a voice of the operator, translating operator feedback, doctrine, TTPs, field observations, technical constraints and customer requirements into product strategy, intuitive workflows, and engineering priorities. A critical part of this role will be helping NODA AI evolve into a scalable multi-domain product platform. You will identify patterns across missions, customers, platforms, and integrations and determine what should become configurable, repeatable product capability, balancing immediate operational needs and customer commitments with the long-term architecture and integrity of the platform.\nThis role requires strong product instincts, technical fluency, operational awareness and the ability to bring structure and coordination to ambiguous, cross-functional problems. You will own meaningful product outcomes from discovery through development, field deployment, and iteration. You will help define what we build and why, make difficult prioritization decisions, and distinguish between what a customer asks for and the underlying problem the product should solve. Success requires deep user empathy, technical fluency, strong product and design judgment, and the ability to bring clarity to complex, ambiguous problems. You will partner closely with Engineering to deliver capabilities that reduce operator workload, accelerate decision-making, and give users confidence in the plans they execute when the mission matters.\nWhat You'll Do\nFacilitate the product strategy, roadmap, and requirements for NODA AI's mission planning software, translating mission needs into intuitive, operationally relevant product capabilities.\n\nAct as the voice of the operator, working directly with warfighters, mission planners, and Government stakeholders to understand operational workflows, identify unmet needs, and translate insights into product direction.\n\nDefine and evolve workflows for mission creation, course-of-action development, planning, tasking, coordination, visualization, feasibility validation, execution, monitoring, and dynamic re-planning across autonomous and multi-domain systems.\n\nTranslate mission objectives, operator workflows, technical constraints, and customer requirements into clear product requirements, workflows, user stories, acceptance criteria, and development priorities.\n\nDrive the transition from programs to scalable product capabilities, identifying patterns across customer engagements and defining the abstractions, configurations, workflows, and interfaces that turn one-off requirements into repeatable capabilities across customers and missions.\n\nPartner closely with Engineering and Design through the full product lifecycle, from discovery and prototyping through development, integration, field deployment, validation, and iteration, delivering reliable and intuitive experiences that increase operator confidence.\n\nDrive product decisions involving complex interactions between planning software, autonomy, command and control, communications, networking, sensors, payloads, platforms, and Ground Control Stations.\n\nEvaluate integration and interoperability requirements with existing Government systems, mission planning tools, Ground Control Stations, data formats, interfaces, and operational workflows.\n\nParticipate directly in field exercises, demonstrations, integration events, testing, and customer deployments to observe product performance, validate workflows, and gather operator feedback firsthand.\n\nDefine and measure product success through planning speed, operator workload, feasibility validation, risk and constraint identification, mission-plan quality, successful execution, user adoption, operator feedback, and mission outcomes, using those insights to continuously improve the product.\n\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field\n\n7+ years of product management or technical product management experience, including ownership of complex, mission-critical software or integrated hardware/software products\n\nMinimum 2 years of experience in a dedicated Product Manager role\n\nU.S. Citizenship required due to ITAR regulations & the ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense (DoD) security clearance\n\nDemonstrated success delivering and scaling field-deployed, mission-critical, or operationally complex software products\n\nTrack record of shipping products, not just features, with end-to-end ownership from user research and product strategy through design, development, field deployment, adoption, and iteration, including making difficult decisions about what not to build\n\nDirect knowledge of military mission planning and execution workflows, gained through product, engineering, program, or operational experience\n\nHands-on familiarity with one or more mission planning environments such as JMPS, FalconView, PFPS, Ground Control Station software, or comparable DoD planning and execution tools\n\nStrong understanding of the relationship between mission planning, command and control, platform tasking, autonomous behaviors, and mission execution\n\nExceptional product discovery and research instincts, with demonstrated ability to learn complex domains through direct user engagement, workflow observation, technical investigation, doctrine, and operational context and synthesize findings into product decisions\n\nStrong technical fluency and systems-level thinking. You do not need to write the code, but you must understand complex software systems deeply enough to partner with Engineering on architecture, interfaces, dependencies, feasibility, and technical tradeoffs\n\nDemonstrated ability to translate complex operational and customer requirements into clear product requirements and actionable priorities for engineering teams\n\nStrong product judgment, including the ability to distinguish between customer requests, underlying user problems, program-specific requirements, and scalable product capabilities\n\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to write a clear product brief, lead a productive design or product review, and communicate strategy and tradeoffs to engineers, operators, Government customers, program leadership, and executives\n\nWillingness and ability to travel to customer sites, test events, demonstrations, exercises, and field deployments as required\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nMBA or Technical Graduate Degree\n\nActive DoD security clearance\n\nPrior Military highly desirable; specifically aviation, UAS, C2, or related operational background.\n\nPrior work in a fast-moving defense technology, autonomy, robotics, or dual-use technology company\n\nDirect operational experience using JMPS, FalconView, PFPS, or similar mission planning software\n\nHands-on experience with Ground Control Stations (GCS) for unmanned aircraft, ground vehicles, maritime systems, or other autonomous platforms\n\nProduct or operational background with autonomous systems, robotics, unmanned systems, AI/ML, command-and-control software, or multi-domain operations\n\nBackground integrating software with sensors, payloads, vehicles, communications systems, edge compute, or other hardware platforms\n\nBackground supporting Government test events, demonstrations, exercises, operational evaluations, or field deployments\n\nDirect interaction with DoD acquisition organizations, program offices, operational units, or intelligence community customers\n\nPrior ownership of a 0-to-1 product or major new product capability in a technically complex environment\n\nSkills & Attributes\nAbility to make effective prioritization decisions when balancing user needs, technical feasibility, resource constraints, customer commitments, program requirements, and long-term product architecture.\n\nOperator obsessed: You want to understand how users actually plan and execute missions, not simply what a requirements document says they do.\n\nStrong product judgment: You can separate a customer request from the underlying user problem and determine whether the right answer is a new feature, a different workflow, an integration or something we should not build.\n\nProduct-minded, not program-driven: You recognize patterns across customer requirements and build scalable capabilities rather than accumulating one-off solutions.\n\nTechnically credible: You can go deep enough with engineers to understand system constraints, architecture, integrations, dependencies, and technical tradeoffs without needing to be the person writing the code.\n\nMission-oriented: You evaluate product decisions based on whether they make the operator more capable and the mission more successful.\n\nStrategic and execution-focused: You can maintain a long-term product vision while making practical decisions about what needs to ship now.\n\nDecisive: You are comfortable making difficult prioritization decisions with imperfect information and clearly communicating the reasoning and tradeoffs behind them.\n\nHands-on: You are willing to sit with users, test workflows, participate in field events, troubleshoot alongside engineers, and see firsthand how the product performs.\n\nHigh ownership: You take responsibility for product outcomes from initial discovery through field deployment, adoption, and iteration.\n\nClear communicator: You can translate between operators, engineers, program teams, Government stakeholders, and executives without losing the substance of the problem.\n\nComfortable in ambiguity: You create structure where requirements are evolving, technology is advancing quickly, and the right product solution is not immediately obvious.\n\nBenefits & Perks\nOur culture fosters collaboration, respect, and trust, empowering passionate people to do their best work. 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