Senior Product Manager, Manufacturing Software
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As a Senior Product Manager for Manufacturing Software, you will own the product strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for the factory floor applications that production operators, supervisors, and manufacturing engineers rely on every shift. You will own the deployment of these products onto the factory floor, working shoulder to shoulder with the people who build ships to make sure the software earns its place in their workflow. Product Strategy You can "see around the corner" for your product, crafting the vision, high-level roadmap, and critical dependencies for 6 to 12 months into the future. You constantly engage with stakeholders to solicit input and buy-in, proactively communicating product goals and managing expectations for delivery. You escalate large tradeoffs and decision points as needed. You work effectively across many internal teams to synthesize their needs, but are never afraid to make important decisions as the owner of your product. Product Prioritization You work backward from your strategy to set clear outcomes for your portfolio in partnership with your engineering, design, and operations partners. You support team structures that allow prioritization of competing work within rapid development cycles, and you let your team flex to adapt goals when new information arrives. Problem Discovery and Solution Generation You become attached to problems, not solutions. You seek out real-world context through onsite user research on the factory floor, direct conversations with technicians and operators, internal expert feedback, existing product data, and industry investigation. You separate what a customer asks for from what a customer actually needs, capture core workflows, and translate them into well-scoped requirements and success hypotheses. Product Execution From design to delivery, you fill gaps wherever needed to make your well-scoped solutions a reality. You proactively communicate with internal team members and stakeholders, approach solutions with humility and creativity to hit milestones, and set a high bar for the product you own, including how it is deployed, adopted, and supported on the floor.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Developing a long-term strategy that navigates complex product tradeoffs, integration dependencies, and buy versus build decisions to push the manufacturing software domain forward
- Gathering and refining both functional requirements and non-functional requirements such as tool capacity, performance, and reliability, and synthesizing them into a prioritized backlog
- Communicating across stakeholders and interested parties on roadmap and delivery, and exercising the judgment to tell whether a stakeholder truly needs what they are asking for or whether the underlying problem is better solved another way
- Walking the factory floor, talking directly with technicians and operators about how their work is going, and turning what you hear into opportunities to fix and improve the product
- Navigating the organizational dynamics between Maritime Digital Production and partner platform teams, advocating from the customer point of view when Maritime's needs differ from how a platform team would prefer to build
- Exploring and incorporating technologies that enhance Anduril's operational leverage
- Driving adoption and enablement of manufacturing software across production and operations teams, To ensure your safety and help you navigate your job search with confidence, please keep the following critical points in mind:
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Requirements
- 8+ years in a software product management role or similar leading role in product development
- Domain expertise within hardware-related industries such as manufacturing, supply chain, warehousing, or logistics
- Demonstrated ability to gather and refine both functional and non-functional requirements (such as capacity, performance, and reliability) and turn them into a prioritized backlog
- Strong understanding of the interplay between enterprise systems, including ERP, WMS, MES, PLM, and supplier portals
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work with stakeholders across a wide range of technical comfort and to judge whether a request reflects a real underlying need
- Demonstrated success working directly with end users in operational environments, including time spent on a production or factory floor observing workflows firsthand
- Ability to navigate cross-team and cross-department dynamics, representing the customer point of view and building alignment when priorities differ
- Ability to balance requirements across engineering, design, data, and business stakeholders
- Demonstrated success decomposing a problem into addressable component parts and arranging the correct sequencing
- Proven ability to "see around corners" by crafting product strategy for 6 to 12 months into the future
- Comfort maturing a product from MVP to enterprise-grade production
- Must be able to travel up to 25% of the time
- U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance, * Experience building or owning manufacturing execution systems (MES), shop floor control systems, or operational software for factory, warehouse, or field environments
- Hands-on experience in manufacturing industries with time spent on assembly lines or in production facilities working directly with operators and technicians
- Experience with UI / UX web design tools (e.g. Figma)
- Familiarity with frontier AI tooling and AI-assisted software development workflows
- Experience in hyper-growth startup-like environments, balancing speed, ambiguity, and long-term platform health
- Background in operations research, industrial engineering, lean manufacturing, or continuous improvement methodologies
Benefits & conditions
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including, At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you're supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.