TPM: Operational Targeting Products

Accountabilities:

• • Own the end-to-end delivery plan for operational targeting capabilities, aligning engineering work with customer commitments and business priorities.
  • Lead Agile sprint and release planning, backlog prioritization, grooming, and tradeoff decisions across scope, schedule, quality, and available capacity.
  • Translate operator, customer, and field feedback into clearly defined engineering requirements and actionable delivery plans.
  • Track dependencies across engineering, client, cloud, QA, and other technical functions, proactively identifying and escalating delivery risks.
  • Maintain program readiness, risk, delivery status, KPIs, and post-release outcomes, providing clear updates to leadership.
  • Establish definitions of done and drive release quality, regression discipline, operational readiness, and continuous improvement.
  • Support customer discovery, demonstrations, proposals, capture activities, and executive briefings related to targeting capabilities.
  • Partner with engineering leaders on architecture, sensor and data integrations, technical debt, technical design reviews, and implementation tradeoffs.
  • Identify opportunities to reuse platform capabilities across targeting and other geospatial initiatives.
  • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Business Development, and Program teams to align execution with broader business objectives.
  • Ensure solutions meet applicable security, regulatory, and government contracting requirements.

  Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related discipline.
  • 3+ years of experience in technical program management, product management, or a comparable role, combined with significant people-management experience.
  • Experience managing and developing teams, with the ability to establish accountability, support performance, and lead through complex delivery environments.
  • Proven experience owning software delivery across multiple engineering disciplines, including front-end, back-end, cloud, and QA functions.
  • Strong Agile expertise, including backlog management, sprint and release planning, dependency coordination, risk management, and readiness tracking.
  • Technical fluency and confidence participating in engineering design discussions and evaluating technical tradeoffs.
  • Ability to turn customer, operator, and business needs into well-scoped engineering requirements and executable plans.
  • Strong prioritization, judgment, and decision-making skills, particularly when requirements or circumstances are changing.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder-management abilities across technical teams, customers, business development, program management, and senior leadership.
  • Experience with GIS, geospatial technology, ISR/FMV, defense, tactical software, or related mission-critical technologies.
  • Familiarity with targeting-cycle doctrine and operational execution.
  • Experience working directly with Department of War, SOCOM, coalition, or public safety operators is highly valuable.
  • Active security clearance or the ability to obtain one.
  • Willingness to travel approximately 30%.
  • Preferred experience includes FMV/ISR data, camera-based detection, cUAS planning, TAK, Cesium, ArcGIS, GDAL, GeoJSON, or C2 systems.
  • Proficiency in C#, C++, or Python and experience supporting DoD acquisition programs are advantageous.

  Benefits

  • Salary: $130,000–$160,000 annually, plus bonus and equity.
  • Compensation is determined based on experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, internal equity, and relevant market data.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • HSA/FSA options.
  • Parental leave.
  • 401(k) with a 100% company match on the first 6% contributed.
  • Unlimited paid time off.
  • Home office stipend.
  • Approximately 30% travel as part of the role.
  • Opportunity to contribute to mission-critical technology supporting defense, public safety, and national security operations.
  • Collaborative environment with significant ownership and direct impact on products used in demanding operational environments.