Sr Specialist, Product Management

About the Role

The Sr Specialist, Product Management, is responsible for managing the cost and schedule requirements of a product line offering through all phases from proposal to fulfillment. This role drives product strategy, roadmap execution, investment prioritization, and cross-functional alignment to ensure delivery of scalable, mission-relevant capabilities to U.S. Government and international customers.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain product roadmaps and technical baselines, in partnership with engineering, including awareness of system architectures, key interfaces, and integration dependencies.
• Translate customer requirements, operational gaps, and market demand into clear product priorities and requirements.
• Serve as the product integrator and execution focal point across engineering, program management, operations, finance, and business development, ensuring alignment of system architecture, interfaces, and delivery commitments.
• Drive product-level decisions across cost, schedule, performance, and risk, including architecture, interface, and integration impacts.
• Develop product-level investment planning, including IRAD priorities, business cases, and ROI justification.
• Support AOP, LRP, and budget planning by linking investments to roadmap outcomes and customer value.
• Interface across Product Line Management, Program Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Configuration Management to ensure product requirements are executable and production-ready.
• Support capture and growth activities by providing product differentiation, technical positioning, and roadmap alignment.
• Assess competitive offerings, emerging threats, and technology trends relevant to ForceX missions.
• Establish and execute product governance, including milestone reviews and leadership decision forums.
• Ensure compliance with applicable regulatory, contractual, and global trade requirements.
• Work with a cross-functional team to ensure products meet profitability metrics. Offer solutions and develop plans to improve profitability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 6 years of prior Product Manager / Product Owner experience, or Graduate Degree with 4 years of prior related experience.
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret-level security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing complex DoW or national security systems that integrate hardware, software, and external platforms across development, production, and sustainment.
• Strong understanding of DoW acquisition environments and compliance requirements associated with fielded defense systems.
• Experience managing complex hardware and software-based systems across development, integration, production, and sustainment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience briefing senior leadership and customers.
• Experience supporting C-UAS, ISR, missile, C2, or mission systems.
• Experience working with both domestic and international customers.
• Active security clearance.
• Familiarity with production scaling, affordability targets, and lifecycle cost management.

Job Location: Nashville, TN
Job Schedule: 9/80
Business Travel: Up to 10% to L3Harris or customer sites.