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Salary: USD 166,000 - 220,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities through advanced technology. The Mission Command team, part of the Connected Warfare Division, builds command and control (C2) tools that help warfighters understand their environment, make faster decisions, and direct forces. These tools are powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that transforms thousands of data streams into real-time 3D command and control centers.
As a Forward Deployed Product Manager, you own the complete path from warfighter problem to fielded solution, covering applications, data models, user experiences, integrations, and infrastructure. You serve as a translation layer between warfighters and engineering teams, embedding with units to build genuine expertise in how they fight and earning trust through solving real problems, not selling solutions.
Key responsibilities include: owning warfighter outcomes rather than features; embedding with units to learn missions and identify critical problems; building trusted relationships with warfighters, commanders, and subject matter experts; conducting field research through observation and participation in real workflows; mapping users, decisions, workflows, systems, and data dependencies; designing across the full stack (applications, data models, integrations, workflows); leveraging data models as product tools; designing for tactical edge conditions including degraded networks and bandwidth constraints; coordinating warfighters, engineering, design, and other teams; handling ambiguous problems through strategy, workflow design, and data flow analysis; leading workshops and design sessions; communicating clearly to operators, large groups, and senior leadership; prototyping before committing engineering resources; monitoring solutions through fielding and operational feedback; and identifying patterns for reusable solutions across units and programs.
You move fast, show bias for action, and work outcome-oriented with real customer empathy. You dive deep into details, take ownership, adapt to changing priorities, and solve problems from first principles rather than following precedent.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance
- 4 to 8 years in product management, product scope definition, service design, or equivalent record of turning hard user problems into fielded solutions
- Track record translating technical and domain-specific information into narratives, CONOPS, mission threads, and feature definitions
- Experience conducting research and synthesis with users and SMEs, building roadmaps from findings
- History earning trust with non-technical, operational users and partnering with them beyond requirements collection
- Ability to balance needs across engineering, data, and business stakeholders
- Comfort working with people across wide technical backgrounds and willingness to learn technical systems for product decisions
- Strong facilitation and whiteboarding skills, including leading interactive planning and decomposition sessions
- Ability to do own design work in common tools such as Figma
- Strong organizational skills and reliability
- Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time, including to field and training environments
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Military experience or direct experience working alongside operational military units, understanding how units fight and Army staff processes, TTPs, and doctrine
- Range of product experience across internal tools, customer-facing applications, and tools for technical users
- Working knowledge of data models, system integrations, networking, or distributed and edge systems
- Self-starter who performs well with ambiguity and loose organizational structure
- Experience fielding capabilities and improving them based on real operational feedback
