Product Manager – Software Factory | Defense Unicorns | Remote (United States)

<h2><strong class=" font-semibold">EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION WILL REQUIRE U.S. CITIZENSHIP.</strong></h2>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Role Description:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">As a Product Manager for Software Factory, you will play a pivotal role in defining and launching our innovative Software Factory platform designed for military personnel and defense contractors. You will own the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and implementation, ensuring alignment with both customer needs and company objectives. This role requires a unique blend of collaboration across business segments, technical expertise, and a deep understanding of secure development environments and Department of Defense security requirements. You will be responsible for facilitating a cross-functional team of engineering, design, and marketing experts to deliver a platform that enhances development efficiency, operational security, and innovation in mission-critical projects.</p>
<h1><strong class=" font-semibold">Responsibilities:</strong></h1>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Define and execute the product vision and strategy for Software Factory, ensuring alignment with company objectives and customer needs</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Collaborate with engineering teams for implementation of a cohesive architecture and integration of development tools within the Software Factory</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Work closely with a Product Designer to architect and design an intuitive platform that meets the unique needs of military personnel and contractors</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Prioritize and manage the product roadmap, balancing customer, business, and technical priorities while synthesizing external customer requests into actionable features and backlogs</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Measure and assess the impact of product solutions through key performance indicators (KPIs), including adoption rates, user engagement metrics, and development efficiency improvements</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Stay current with industry trends and best practices related to secure development environments and Department of Defense software development requirements, ensuring our platform meets evolving needs and compliance standards</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Present product updates and strategic insights in customer-facing engagements, ensuring clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Thrive in a fast-paced, remote working environment, demonstrating high levels of discipline, self-motivation, and adaptability</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Strong written and verbal communication skills</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Enough technical breadth to work with engineering and design to trade off roadmap versus engineering effort needed</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">The listed responsibilities are not exhaustive and additional responsibilities may be assigned based on the evolving needs of the organization. We are seeking a dynamic individual who is able to adapt and take on new responsibilities as they arise.</strong></p>
<h1><strong class=" font-semibold">Required Experience and Qualifications:</strong></h1>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience establishing a product roadmap with themes, a team charter, measurable outcomes in the form of OKRs/KPIs to track success, design docs</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">5+ years of leading products from idea to market and operations, focusing on secure development environments or internal developer platforms</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ability to work independently, manage time efficiently, and thrive in a remote work setup</span></li>
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<h1><strong class=" font-semibold">Preferred Experience and Qualifications:</strong></h1>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Familiarity with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in developer platform development, such as supply chain security, open source development, and internal developer platforms.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Empathy for the National Security mission and challenges they face in delivering software and data solutions</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Join our dynamic team and make a meaningful impact in shaping the future of our platform offering for the national security sector. If you&#8217;re passionate about leveraging technology to drive positive change and thrive in a challenging, collaborative environment, we invite you to apply and join our team.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Full compensation packages are based on candidate experience. Compensation ranges are established using national benchmarking data and apply across all geographic locations within the United States.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Remote &#8211; USA</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">$185,000—$246,568 USD</p>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2">Who We Are</h3>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges. We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation. Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user experience and optionality, without compromising security. Our team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market.</p>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2">What We Do</h3>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery. Defense Unicorns consolidates the best practices for security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation in order to meet the high security requirements valued by mission owners. Our solutions are agnostic by design and we believe that growing a robust ecosystem of secure, cloud-native software solutions can help enterprise customers inside and outside the federal market buy and integrate software more easily.</p>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2">Who We Serve</h3>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Defense Unicorns’ customers are mission-focused leaders across public and private enterprises. We proudly support defense and civil agencies across the U.S. government and we work closely with the creators of leading-edge software solutions to deliver value to the mission-owner by improving the security and consumability of commercial software products.</p>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">What We Work On</strong></h3>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Kubernetes</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Cloud Environments (AWS/GCP and Azure)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Infrastructure-as-code (like Terraform/Pulumi)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Continuous Delivery and automation tooling</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">GitOps</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Containers</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">CNCF projects and open source products and packages</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Helm/Kustomize-Value Stream Mapping</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Building and improving security delivery</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Building Kubernetes and cloud native applications</span></li>
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<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">Benefits Our Unicorns Enjoy</strong></h3>
<h4>Health:</h4>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Premiums are 100% Company Paid</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Health Reimbursement Account</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Life Insurance</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Disability Insurance</span></li>
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<h4>Financial:</h4>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">401k with Employer Contribution (Regardless of Employee Contribution)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Company Stock Options</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Home Office Setup Budget</span></li>
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<h4>Leave:</h4>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Unlimited paid time off, with a mandatory 10 days off on top of 11 federal government holidays, week of Thanksgiving, last two weeks of December (including New Year’s Day)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Paid Parental Leave</span></li>
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<h4>Learning:</h4>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>Don’t have all the preferred experience or qualifications? Studies show that underrepresented groups like women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs if they don&#8217;t meet every requirement listed.</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>At Defense Unicorns, we&#8217;re committed to diversity. If you&#8217;re enthusiastic about the role but don&#8217;t match every criteria, we encourage you to apply. You could be the perfect fit for this or another role! Defense Unicorns is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.</em></p>
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