Product Manager

Tagup

$125K — $165K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in product management or related fields focused on software products.
  • Experience with enterprise software, particularly in data-intensive or mission-critical contexts.
  • Strong ability to analyze ambiguous problems and identify user needs for product development.
  • Technical fluency to effectively communicate and collaborate with engineers regarding systems and integrations.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills to translate complex concepts into clear narratives and requirements.
  • Proven track record working across multiple departments like engineering, design, and customer success.
  • Comfortable in a fast-paced, high-responsibility environment with changing priorities.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with stakeholders to create a roadmap for the Manifest platform focused on measurable outcomes.
  • Own the product discovery and delivery process, from defining problems to launching and iterating solutions.
  • Engage directly with operators and decision-makers to gather insights on workflows and mission needs.
  • Translate operational and customer insights into product requirements and delivery plans.
  • Collaborate closely with engineering on shipping high-impact software solutions.
  • Support the integration of AI workflows by defining user expectations and success metrics.
  • Coordinate with customer teams to facilitate deployment trainings and gather feedback for continuous improvement.

Benefits

  • Equity options through the Employee Stock Option Plan.
  • Comprehensive health insurance for all employees.
  • Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Regular company outings fostering a team-oriented culture.
Full Job Description


We9re hiring a Product Manager to help drive the execution and adoption of Manifest, Tagup9s mission-critical platform for defense logistics. In this role, you will work closely with product leadership, engineering, design, customers, and company leadership to translate complex operational needs into clear product requirements, ship high-impact capabilities, and ensure our software becomes indispensable to the operators and decision-makers who rely on it.

This role is ideal for a high-ownership product builder who is comfortable with ambiguity, technically fluent enough to partner deeply with engineers, and energized by spending time with customers in operational environments.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with product leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to translate product strategy into a clear, sequenced roadmap for Manifest, with a focus on measurable customer outcomes in readiness, efficiency, and resilience.
  • Own product discovery and delivery for specific product areas, from problem definition through requirements, launch, iteration, and adoption.
  • Spend time with operators, planners, maintainers, and decision-makers to understand workflows, pain points, constraints, and mission needs.
  • Convert customer and operational insights into crisp product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, workflows, and delivery plans.
  • Work closely with engineering to scope, prioritize, and ship mission-critical software in a high-tempo environment.
  • Support the delivery of AI-enabled workflows by helping define user expectations, evaluation criteria, edge cases, and success metrics.
  • Collaborate with customer-facing teams to support pilots, deployments, training, feedback loops, and adoption.
  • Track product usage, customer feedback, operational impact, and delivery progress to inform prioritization and continuous improvement.
  • Communicate clearly across audiences, including operators, executives, engineers, and technical stakeholders.
  • Bring urgency, discipline, and attention to detail to product execution in environments where reliability and trust matter.


Requirements

  • 3+ years of product management, product operations, technical program management, or related experience building and shipping software products.
  • Experience working on enterprise, data-intensive, operational, or mission-critical software.
  • Strong product instincts for breaking down ambiguous problems, identifying user needs, sequencing delivery, and balancing customer outcomes with engineering constraints.
  • Technical fluency: you can reason credibly with engineers about data systems, APIs, integrations, workflows, tradeoffs, and system behavior.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to turn complex information into clear requirements, decisions, and narratives.
  • Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, design, customer success, sales, leadership, and external stakeholders.
  • Comfort operating in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment with shifting priorities and incomplete information.
  • Willingness to engage directly with military or government customers and travel as needed.
  • Authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.; Tagup is unable to sponsor visas at this time.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience delivering software to DoD, IC, DHS, allied defense organizations, government agencies, or other highly regulated customers.
  • Familiarity with logistics, maintenance, supply chain, readiness, fleet operations, or operational planning workflows.
  • Experience with AI, machine learning, optimization, decision-support tools, or data products.
  • Experience supporting products deployed in constrained, edge, disconnected, denied, degraded, or intermittent environments.
  • Prior military service, government service, or defense contractor experience.
  • Experience working with forward-deployed engineering, field teams, or customer implementation teams.
  • Eligibility to obtain a U.S. security clearance.


$125,000 - $165,000 a year

We align compensation with your experience and impact, and we aim to attract and retain top engineering talent. In addition to salary, every team member receives meaningful equity through our Employee Stock Option Plan. We also offer comprehensive health insurance, access to a 401(k) plan, and a team-oriented culture with regular company outings.

If you want to build products that matter, this is a rare opportunity to work on software where the mission is real, the technical depth is non-trivial, and the work is already deployed in environments where better decisions can have immediate impact.

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