Product Manager, Defense Unicorns
$135.3-175.5k
Plus Company Stock Options
Software for national security systems
Open for applications
Software for national security systems
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$135.3-175.5k
Plus Company Stock Options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To create software to solve the unique challenges experienced by the government.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a dynamic individual who is able to adapt and take on new responsibilities as they arise
Desirable
- Medium to medium-high technical understanding of Infrastructure as Code, K8s, platform tooling, multiple CSPs, and on-prem (AWS, Azure, vSphere, Nutanix, etc)
- Experience working with open source infrastructure management tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, Spacelift, etc
- An understanding of the needs of an open-source community
- Experience establishing a clear product roadmap and value proposition to prospective customers
- Knowledge of and experience with monetization models for open source software
What the job involves
- Being a Product Manager at Defense Unicorns is more than just being part of the sparkliest Product team in defense tech. It means taking radical ownership over real products that make a real impact on real people
- At Defense Unicorns, our mission is to make software a strategic deterrent, and our Product Management team clears the path
- In this role, you’ll report to the Director of Product and work with two teams who deliver closely linked, yet diverse outcomes
- One supports a popular and foundational open source tool, and the other manages cloud-scale infrastructure and creates tooling to make it easy for Defense Unicorns’ supported missions to consume it
- The listed responsibilities are not exhaustive and additional responsibilities may be assigned based on the evolving needs of the organization
- Passion for the intersection of business, open-source software, and national security
- Comfortable owning a product vision end-to-end and being accountable for delivering to several customer segments
- Managing the expectations and delivery of outcomes of unicorns engineers entrusted to you
- Establishing and clearly communicating vision and objectives at all levels of the company - from engineers to executives
- Continuously balance customer, business, and technical priorities with limited resources
- Synthesizing external customer requests into an internal product roadmap
- Discipline required to work in a fast-paced, remote environment
- Keep our Growth and Delivery teams aligned on roadmap and value proposition in order to support product pricing, customer segmentation, and customer needs
- Experience managing, updating and using task, information and code management tools like GitHub, Notion, Hubspot, Google Workspace, etc
- Continuous learning is a must. Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in Product Management, DevOps, regulated IT, and the CNCF community
- Experience working with and continuously delivering software under Agile software development principles
- Understand business strategy and adapt product strategy and roadmap to accomplish company objectives
- Comfortable presenting information in customer facing engagements
- Comfortable having technical conversations which engineering and design to trade off roadmap versus engineering effort needed
Our take
Military defence technology is having to adapt at a quickening pace. However, innovations in the tech sector, outdated technology, varied compute environments and complex security and compliance issues create lags in new defence technology. Defense Unicorns is an open-source tech developer aiming to minimise this lag.
Founded by former Department of Defense software engineers, Defense Unicorns uses AI and innovative software to create military technology for various uses and combat landscapes. The company is particularly focused on tech that can be used in “air-gapped” areas - those that are disconnected from the internet.
In terms of the company's future position in the market, it's notable that the US annual defence budget specifically for IT and cyber has increased to just under $59 billion in 2024. This funding growth exemplifies a rapidly changing combat landscape set against an unpredictable global backdrop, one in which Defense Unicorns has the chance to be an important player.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2024
$35m
SERIES A
Oct 2022
$0.5m
SEED
Total funding: $35.5m
Company benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision (premiums are 100% company paid)
- Health reimbursement account
- Life insurance & disability insurance
- 401k with employer contribution (regardless of employee contribution)
- Company stock options
- Home office setup budget
- Unlimited paid time off, with a mandatory 10 days off on top of 11 federal government holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
- Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)
Company HQ
Southeast Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO
Leadership
Robert Slaughter
(Co-Founder & CEO)Works as a Trainer at Project Blue. Previously the Director of DoD Platform One, a Counselor at SpaceCAMP, and worked in DevOps for the US Airforce.
Andrew Greene
(Co-Founder & Engineer)Previously worked for DoD Platform One. Was also a Software Engineer at Omitron and at SGT.
Jeff McCoy
(Co-Founder)Previously Co-Founder and CTO at Platform One, Was also CTO at SpaceCAMP, Senior Software Engineer at Defense Innovation Unit, and Co-Founder at DDS Rogue Squadron.
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