Job ID: 114623
Location: Dallas TX
Schedule: 9/80

Job Summary

The Senior Product Manager, Unmanned Systems is equal parts strategic vision and focus on daily execution for a new EOIS family of thermal drone cameras engineered for UAV, UGV, and USV applications. This role owns the end-to-end product lifecycle, from strategy and roadmap through execution, launch, and sustainment. The ideal candidate possesses strong EO/IR and unmanned-systems domain knowledge and serves as a key voice-of-customer leader, aligning cross-functional teams (Engineering, Operations, Marketing, Finance, Contracts, and Business Development) to deliver differentiated products that win in OEM and integrator environments.

Job Responsibilities
• Own the product lifecycle for unmanned-systems offerings: roadmap, requirements, business cases, launch plans, forecast and production alignment, and sustainment.
• Develop product and market strategies using industry knowledge and market research to address current and emerging unmanned mission needs and platform integration constraints.
• Define and prioritize roadmaps based on voice-of-customer inputs, competitive analysis, and SWaP-C tradeoffs relevant to UAV/UGV/USV payload integration (Group 1-3 UAV emphasis).
• Partner with Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Manufacturing to deliver products on time/on budget, ensuring technical performance, schedule, and cost targets are met.
• Lead product pricing and cost strategy (e.g., Price to Win and Design to Cost), collaborating with Finance/Cost Accounting and other functions to support profitable growth.
• Establish and monitor product performance metrics (e.g., bookings, revenue, P&L/cashflow, and operational/marketing KPIs) and drive corrective actions as needed.
• Enable sales with product training on positioning, competitive differentiators, and field-ready materials that support evaluations through design win and production ramp.
• Serve as a primary customer interface for business discussions and initial technical questions; support key evaluations, demos, trade shows, and customer visits.
• Identify and evaluate partner relationships and channel opportunities (platform OEMs, payload integrators, etc.) that strengthen the product line's right-to-win.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• 7+ years of related experience, and a minimum of 5 years of experience with direct product management responsibility
• Demonstrated business and technical acumen.
• Proven ability to establish strategic direction and plan and drive accountability.
• Thorough understanding of product development and engineering processes.
• Strong understanding of ISR payload requirements for UAV/UGV/USV, including SWaP-C tradeoffs and integration constraints.
• Demonstrated success supporting OEM integration environments with long design-in cycles and production ramp dynamics (evaluation → design win → volume).
• Strong knowledge of manufacturing, quality, and engineering processes to support technical product and customer engagements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong presentation and executive briefing skills.
• Understanding of Marketing Communications and Product Marketing; ability to collaborate on collateral such as application briefs, integration guides, case studies, and data sheets.
• Strong customer relationship and interpersonal skills; ability to coordinate cross-functional teams to closure.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally.

U.S. Citizenship required. This position requires an active DOD security clearance or the ability to obtain such clearance within a reasonable time after commencement of employment.

Taking care of our people is a top priority at Leonardo DRS. We are proud to offer competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, a company contribution to a health savings account, telemedicine, life and disability insurance, legal insurance, and a 401(k) savings plan. We champion wellness programs that focus on physical, emotional, and financial well-being. We develop our talent by offering programs and activities to support career-growth, professional development, and skill enhancement. And we understand there is more to life than work, and the importance of offering flexible work schedules with our 9/80 program, competitive vacation, health/emergency leave, paid parental leave, and community service hours.
*Some employees are eligible for limited benefits only