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Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming military capabilities through advanced technology, AI, autonomy, and computer vision. The Dive-XL Platform team is building software and systems for extra-large autonomous undersea vehicles, managing the full vehicle stack from embedded vehicle management to mission software layers.
This Senior Software Product Manager role sits at the center of how Dive-XL's software capabilities are shaped and delivered. You will work closely with stakeholders across Platform engineering, Maritime Enabling Technology, Maritime Application Development, and Program teams to drive product design, particularly around mission software layer features. A key objective is championing operator experience, translating operational needs into well-defined software requirements, and ensuring delivered capabilities serve the people who use these systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop deep understanding of user, customer, and business needs; define what to build and why
- Empathize with end-users and drive solutions balancing their needs with external constraints in a multi-stakeholder environment
- Be the voice of the user, developing informed empathy for end-users in the lifecycle of uncrewed systems
- Advocate for Software Product Management within teams, coaching user research best practices
- Become an expert on existing and future product capabilities
- Articulate detailed written product requirements at different levels of maturity
- Hold high standards for visual design and information architecture, collaborating with designers, engineers, and managers
- Manage 6–18 month roadmaps for allocated projects
- Define, document, and gain consensus for project goals and plans derived from organizational vision and strategy
- Coordinate project roadmaps with other teams to develop reusable components across product lines
- Coordinate and directly contribute to execution on Software Engineering projects from definition through delivery
- Drive work through Anduril's engineering governance process
- Manage programmatic and technical risk, making sound and timely decisions
- Lead multi-disciplinary project teams of 4–10 members across team boundaries
- Collaborate with internal and external customer teams to drive adoption of delivered solutions
- Travel to co-locate with end-users and other teams up to 20% of the time
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant field, or equivalent experience
- Extensive professional experience working as a Software Product Manager with one or more domains of expertise
- Capacity to act as owner for a software system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team coordination, design, implementation management, sustainment, and evolution
- Capacity to learn and grow individually while mentoring junior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity
- Experience leading the design and execution of user engagement and research studies
- Ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Government security clearance
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in delivery or employment of military mission systems and/or autonomous vehicles
- Experience with design, implementation, and operation of horizontally scaled cloud technologies
- Experience with design, implementation, and support of embedded software, particularly in robotics
- Experience with design, implementation, roll-out, and evolution of user-facing front-end applications
- Experience with development of high assurance safety-critical software (DO-178, IEC 61508, or similar standards)
- Experience with development of modeling and simulation capabilities
- Desire to learn and grow into Staff Software Product Manager roles
