Product Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as the central point for collaboration between Business Development, Marketing, Engineering, and Executive Leadership.

• Gather market insights from Business Development and clients.

• Convert marketing vision and design concepts into a coherent engineering framework.

• Ensure that external marketing materials accurately represent software and hardware capabilities.

• Manage and uphold product roadmaps and backlogs across cloud software, hardware, edge computing, and hardware/autonomy integrations.

• Engage with end users and customers to identify widespread issues.

• Interpret customer pain points into product requirements, use cases, user stories, rationales, and acceptance criteria.

• Maintain the intuitive UI/UX of the Absolute Ocean platform.

• Align engineering leadership with product management on key milestones, schedules, and technical trade-offs.

• Prepare data-driven trade studies and decision briefs in collaboration with the VP of Product & AI.

• Attend industry conferences, customer meetings, and field demonstrations.

• Collect firsthand market intelligence to refine product strategy.

• Coordinate operational media assets with both marketing and test engineering teams.

• Ensure product UI palettes align with company design standards.

• Prioritize competing stakeholder demands and recommend trade-offs to the VP.

• Oversee the product side of customer support, including HubSpot ticket management and knowledge base updates.

• Draft release notes and customer-facing product updates.

• Manage daily administration of product vendors and tools.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of product management experience leading B2B SaaS products.

• Experience with products that incorporate hardware/appliances, robotics, autonomous systems, or edge computing.

• Proven capability to convert complex customer requests into root-cause problem statements, traceable requirements, and unambiguous acceptance criteria.

• Proficient in using Jira, Jira Product Discovery (JPD), and Confluence.

• Demonstrated experience utilizing AI tools for product research, requirement development, analysis, prototyping, or product operations.

• Understanding of the specification, testing, and evaluation of AI-enabled features.

• Capability to assess product investments based on customer value, revenue potential, strategic importance, technical effort, and opportunity cost.

• Ability to make practical trade-offs with limited time, budget, and resources.

• Experience in engaging directly with sales teams and conducting customer discovery interviews.

• Willingness to travel 20–30% of the time.

• U.S. citizenship is required.

• Preferred experience with defense, intelligence, or U.S. Government acquisition and customer sets.

• Preferred background or familiarity with geospatial data, GIS, oceanography, bathymetry, maritime domain awareness, or remote sensing.

• Active Secret or Top Secret security clearance is preferred.

• Preferred experience in delivering cloud-native SaaS and edge/disconnected hardware solutions.

• Formal Product Management Training & Certification is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time employment.

• Fully remote work.

• Approximately 20–30% travel for customer visits, trade shows, field tests, and operational demonstrations.

• Equal opportunity workplace dedicated to professional growth and contribution.