Product Manager, Control & Safety Ecosystem

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership & Product Vision
• Roadmap Ownership: Define and execute the 12-month roadmap for the platform’s control & safety layers, prioritizing innovations that drive autonomy & machine intelligence.
• Customer Discovery: Lead the discovery phase by conducting various forms of research & engaging with stakeholders to identify needs, ensuring customer-centric requirements are established before technical development begins.
• Safety as a Competitive Advantage: Position FORT’s safety-critical architecture as a primary market differentiator, ensuring the product vision aligns with global standards and customer trust.
• New Vertical Expansion: Lead technical proposal efforts for high-stakes innovative projects. Identify and target new verticals that align with the platform vision, ensuring FORT remains the standard for safety governance across industries.
• Technical Execution & System Governance
• Requirement Lifecycle Excellence: Orchestrate a tool-agnostic requirement architecture that drives simplicity and clarity for engineering teams while maintaining rigorous compliance with ISO 9001 and SIL standards.
• Regulatory & Security Navigation: Act as the strategic lead for global regulatory shifts (ex. EU Machinery Regulation, Cyber Resilience Act), ensuring the platform remains ahead of compliance curves.
• Standards Expertise: Maintain expert knowledge of and ensure product compliance with key functional safety standards, including ISO 13849 and IEC 61508.
• Security Integration: Proactively monitor the evolving security landscape, integrating security-by-design principles into all functional requirements.
• Interface Ownership: Own the requirement lifecycle for safety-critical hardware-software interfaces and controls integration.
• Cross-Functional Impact Analysis: Conduct high-level trade studies and impact analysis to ensure technical alignment across all platform layers, minimizing risk and maximizing system reliability for existing and new projects.
• Quality & Certification (QE): Partner with Quality Engineering and Safety teams to oversee certification efforts (e.g., SIL 3) and ensure the control layer meets the highest "Definition of Done" standards.
• Stakeholder & Lifecycle Management
• Strategic Communication: Distill complex system architectures into clear, value-driven narratives for executive leadership and external partners.
• Operational Simplicity: Streamline the transition of features through the Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC), ensuring that compliance processes support rather than hinder development velocity.
• Feedback Integration: Monitor field data and support trends to identify systemic improvements, ensuring the long-term stability and scalability of the control ecosystem.
• Backlog Governance: Act as the Product Owner, managing the control backlog and ensuring all product decisions are grounded in validated metrics.
• Go-to-Market Support: Partner with Marketing and Sales to develop technical collateral, user guidance, and launch strategies for new cloud and data products.

Qualifications

• Experience: 4+ years of experience in Product Management or Systems Engineering within high-integrity environments (ex. aerospace, robotics, or medical).
• AI-First Mindset: The Product Manager must be well-versed in leveraging machine intelligence, predictive safety, and data-driven insights to integrate AI effectively into the core product strategy and expedite output.
• Safety & Systems Expertise: Deep understanding of functional safety principles and the ability to manage products at the intersection of complex logic and physical machine control.
• Methodology & Frameworks: Expert knowledge of the Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC) and experience operating within Agile/Scrum frameworks for complex systems.
• Technical Toolset
• Proficient in Monday.com and Jira for roadmap and project management; experienced with advanced requirement management platforms and system modeling tools.
• Experienced with embedded systems, Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS), and safety-critical hardware/software integration.
• Market Acumen: Proven ability to support business development for complex government and industrial contracts, with a focus on creating new market opportunities.
• Leadership: Strong collaborative skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Drive: Extremely driven to achieve aggressive goals, with demonstrable motivation aligned to the company's core mission.

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