Senior Product Manager, Manufacturing Software
Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Heavy Metal - Engineering & Operations
Costa Mesa, California$166k - $220kFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Senior Product Manager responsible for strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for factory floor applications used by production operators, supervisors, and manufacturing engineers within Anduril’s Maritime Digital Production team.
Responsibilities
- 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 on roadmap and delivery, and exercising judgment to determine true needs versus alternative solutions
- Walking the factory floor, talking directly with technicians and operators about how their work is going, and turning feedback into opportunities to fix and improve the product
- Navigating organizational dynamics between Maritime Digital Production and partner platform teams, advocating from the customer point of view
- Exploring and incorporating technologies that enhance Anduril's operational leverage
- Driving adoption and enablement of manufacturing software across production and operations teams
- Developing a long-term strategy for the manufacturing software domain with 6-12 month horizons
- Translating user requirements into well-scoped problems and success hypotheses
- Ensuring deployment of products onto the factory floor and alignment with workflow on ships
Qualifications
- 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 and turn them into a prioritized backlog
- Strong understanding of ERP, WMS, MES, PLM, and supplier portals
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills across varying technical audiences
- Experience working directly with end users in production environments along the factory floor
- Ability to navigate cross-team and cross-department dynamics and represent the customer perspective
- Ability to balance requirements across engineering, design, data, and business stakeholders
- Experience decomposing problems into addressable parts and sequencing
- Ability to craft product strategy 6-12 months into the future
- Comfort maturing a product from MVP to enterprise-grade production
- Willingness to travel up to 25%
- U.S. Person status and eligibility to obtain/maintain active U.S. Secret security clearance
Skills
Required:Product strategyRequirements gathering and backlog refinement
Benefits
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package for health, recovery, and future planning (details available via Explore Our Benefits)
Last updated Jul 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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