Senior Product Manager, Expeditionary Manufacturing

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy and execution of Firestorm’s mobile manufacturing product line, xCell. Your mission is to ensure we are building the right things, in the right order and to the right scope, while staying tightly aligned with our engineering, manufacturing and business development teams.

Responsibilities

• Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the xCell mobile manufacturing platform
• Translate user needs, customer feedback, and market trends into clearly defined product requirements and investment opportunities
• Travel to customer sites, observe operations, and engage directly with defense users to deeply understand workflows, pain points, and constraints
• Prioritize features, capabilities, and engineering investment to maximize near-term impact and long-term product differentiation
• Drive development from early concept through key milestones, including SRR, PDR, and CDR, in collaboration with engineering and program leads
• Keep stakeholders aligned by clearly communicating roadmap progress, key risks, and delivery timelines across Engineering, Growth, and Executive teams
• Identify gaps in the roadmap by surfacing unmet customer needs and proposing new initiatives in collaboration with Product Leadership
• Participate in real-world testing to validate new features, uncover edge cases, and ensure product readiness
• Actively partner with Growth, Engineering, and Manufacturing teams to align objectives, surface tradeoffs, and remove blockers
• Build and maintain product artifacts including requirements documentation, user journeys, backlogs, and release plans
• Support business development with product briefs, proposal content, and customer engagements
• Maintain a systems-level view of your product, accounting for interdependencies, scale, future integrations, and change management

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field
• 8+ years of experience in product management or a program management role
• U.S. Citizenship required due to ITAR regulations & the ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense (DoD) security clearance
• Track record of delivering complex technical products, ideally in aerospace, defense, or advanced manufacturing domains
• Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, supply chain, and full product lifecycle management
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, make tradeoffs, and drive alignment across engineering and business functions
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
• High level of ownership; you run toward the fire. Whether that’s clarifying a technical detail or helping navigate a regulatory constraint