Senior Product Manager, CHAOS Industries

• You thrive in technically complex, ambiguous environments and can independently drive a product from problem definition through delivery
• You are comfortable working with engineers at depth without needing to be the technical decision-maker
• You think in systems: users, hardware, software, interfaces, dependencies, failure modes, and operational constraints all matter
• You quickly become conversant in unfamiliar domains, earn credibility with technical and operational stakeholders, and know when to pull in deeper expertise
• You can separate critical product decisions from noise and make sound tradeoffs under time and information constraints
• 7+ years of relevant experience, including substantial ownership of complex software products; roughly 5+ years in product management or an equivalent product ownership role
• Experience with software that interacts with hardware, sensors, networks, external systems, or real-world operations. Comfort with core systems-engineering practices—requirements definition and traceability, interface definition, and trade-off analysis—applied in service of product decisions
• Strong written and verbal communication, product judgment, and ability to drive alignment without relying on formal authority
• Work full-time onsite with the CHAOS software team in San Francisco
• Regular travel may be required for product testing, customer demonstrations, integrations, and cross-functional collaboration

Desirable

• As a Senior Product Manager, you’ll own two closely related product areas: our tactical command-and-control (C2) software and the integration platform that connects CHAOS systems to the broader operational ecosystem, including our kinetic effector efforts
• You’ll work across software, systems, hardware, operators, and program teams to turn ambiguous mission needs into products that work in real deployments
• The integration platform is broader than the C2 application: it enables external sensors and data sources to integrate with CHAOS systems and allows external C2 systems to control or coordinate CHAOS capabilities, as well as handling effector engagements
• Success means building intuitive operator software while making CHAOS systems easy to integrate into larger, heterogeneous mission architectures
• Own product direction, prioritization, and execution for CHAOS’s tactical C2 software and integration platform
• Translate operator workflows, mission needs, and interoperability requirements into clear product decisions and engineering priorities
• Determine where capabilities should live across CHAOS C2, shared platform services, external sensors, and higher-level C2 systems, and help define the interfaces between them
• Partner deeply with software, systems, hardware, and integration engineers on tradeoffs involving interfaces, data flows, latency, failure modes, networking, and deployment constraints
• Balance urgent program-specific integrations with reusable platform capabilities that reduce one-off work over time
• Build durable relationships across engineering, programs, operations, and business teams and become a trusted source of product and mission context