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Salary: USD 114,330 - 170,980 / annual
Echodyne is seeking a Product Manager to support the development and delivery of EchoWare, the company's radar software product. The role bridges product strategy and engineering execution, turning established product priorities into clear, actionable work for the engineering team and ensuring delivered functionality meets product requirements.
Key responsibilities include:
- Breaking down product requirements and epics into well-scoped user stories with clear workflows, edge cases, and testable acceptance criteria
- Maintaining and prioritizing the EchoWare backlog in Jira, keeping upcoming work ready for development and aligned with product and release priorities
- Leading backlog refinement sessions with engineering, sequencing work around priorities and technical dependencies
- Serving as the day-to-day product contact during development, resolving requirements questions and documenting decisions and changes
- Making tactical product decisions within established direction; escalating changes affecting scope, priorities, product intent, or customer commitments
- Partnering with engineering, UX, and test teams to resolve tradeoffs, define acceptance criteria, and validate delivered functionality
- Capturing defects, limitations, and follow-up work; bringing customer and field feedback to the product team
- Building working knowledge of EchoWare, customer workflows, integrations, and operational use cases to inform product decisions
About Echodyne: The company develops the world's first compact solid-state true beam-steering radar for autonomous vehicles, uncrewed aircraft and drones, and critical infrastructure security. The technology combines patented metamaterials with powerful software to deliver high-performance radar sensors that work in all weather conditions at commercial price points. Applications span automotive, transportation, critical infrastructure protection, border security, smart cities, uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), and urban air mobility (UTM).
Note: Echodyne's technology is export-controlled by the U.S. Government. The company will ask applicants to identify whether they are a U.S. citizen, green card holder, or have asylum/refugee status in the U.S. as part of the application process.
Requirements:
- 2+ years of experience in product management, product ownership, or a related software product role
- Experience working with software engineering teams through development and release cycles
- Ability to translate product requirements into clear user stories and testable acceptance criteria
- Experience maintaining and refining product backlogs in Jira or similar tools
- Working knowledge of Agile development practices and ability to understand technical tradeoffs and dependencies
- Strong written and verbal communication with excellent attention to detail
- Ability to operate effectively in a technical, fast-moving environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
Desired experience:
- Familiarity with radar, sensor software, defense, security, or airspace management applications
