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Senior Product Manager
Location: Remote
Compensation: $140,000 - 180,000 per year, depending on experience and qualifications.
Employment Type: Full-Time
What you can expect as the Senior Product Manager at Fortress…
The Senior Product Manager is responsible for leading product strategy and executing on products supporting the Department of War. The role will focus on defining the long-term vision for capabilities that enhance military readiness, strengthen operational resilience, and improve decision-making across defense environments. The Senior Product Manager will collaborate with engineering, design, data science, solution engineering, and federal stakeholders to deliver products that meet stringent government standards for performance, compliance, and cybersecurity.
Responsibilities Include:
- Lead the product vision and roadmap for capabilities supporting Department of War, ensuring alignment with operational needs and evolving defense priorities
- Convert user insights, field requirements, and program objectives into clear product direction and measurable outcomes
- Partner with engineering, design, and data teams to deliver secure, reliable, and high-quality products optimized for mission use
- Oversee the product lifecycle to ensure ongoing reliability, sustainment, and continuous improvement across mission-critical capabilities.
- Define success metrics, analyze performance, and refine product decisions based on data, user feedback, and mission impact
- Communicate progress and strategic recommendations to executives and government stakeholders while representing the voice of military users across the organization
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years of product management (or equivalent) experience, ideally with complex enterprise or government-facing products
- Strong analytical, strategic, and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach
- Excellent leadership and communication abilities, with experience influencing cross-functional teams
- Ability to understand DoD mission needs, acquisition processes, and technical requirements. Includes familiarity with FAR/DFARS, compliance frameworks (NIST, CMMC), program offices, and how federal contract vehicles operate
- Technical fluency (APIs, AI/ML, data models, architecture, scaling) and comfort working closely with engineering
- Customer-obsessed approach with experience gathering insights through interviews, research, and usability testing, especially with high-stakes user groups
- Familiarity with agile/lean methodologies and modern product development practices
- Active clearance preferred; ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance (required)
Preferred Skills:
- Prior experience working within federal, defense, or high-growth technology environments
- Experience with AI/ML features, data-driven products, or platform ecosystems.
- Experience with Jira, Looker, MongoDB, Postgres, Aha!, etc.
- Previous startup-scale or high-growth company experience
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, information technology, supply chain, business administration or equivalent professional work experience required.
Employee Benefits:
- Remote and Hybrid working environment
- Competitive pay structure
- Medical, dental, vision plans with employees covered up to 90% with highly progressive options for dependents and families
- Company paid life, short- and long-term disability insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- 401(k) match
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Parental Leave
- Access to thousands of Learning & Development courses that range from mental health and wellbeing, stress, and time management to an array of technical and business-related courses
Employment Perks:
- We provide each employee with professional growth opportunities through succession planning, up-skilling, and certifications
- Tuition and certification reimbursement
- Employee Referral Programs
- Company Sponsored Events
Fortress is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employees and applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Fortress Information Security takes part in the E-Verify process for all new hires.
For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will have to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
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