Associate Product Manager

Job Overview

Saronic Technologies is seeking an Associate Product Manager to contribute to the strategy, development, and delivery of autonomous maritime products. Reporting to a Product or Senior Product Manager, you will own a defined product area, provide ongoing support to key Saronic products, and contribute to building and maintaining cross-Product team resources. This role is designed for junior product managers or hardware/software engineers transitioning into product management.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Strategy: Support the development of a comprehensive product strategy aligned with Saronic's vision, considering defense and commercial requirements. Analyze operational needs, market trends, competition, and user feedback to identify opportunities and drive product differentiation.
• Product Development: Collaborate with engineering, production, and mission operations teams to drive execution and product development. Gain practical understanding through on-ship experiences, production line walks, and software team engagement.
• Roadmap Planning: Create and maintain a detailed product roadmap for initiatives, product components, or efforts within a Product Manager's responsibilities, targeting both immediate success and integration into broader Saronic priorities.
• Content Generation: Proactively generate content for updates and education of internal and external stakeholders. Facilitate understanding of products and design rationales for non-technical audiences, and communicate customer needs and product functionality requirements for customer success to technical audiences.
• Intra-Team Support: Build and maintain internal tools, documentation, and other materials to support the Product function at Saronic.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Enthusiasm, organization, judgment, work ethic, comfort with ambiguity, and curiosity.
• Strong technical background with knowledge of autonomous systems and/or constituent technologies (e.g., sensors and perception, radios and networking, structures and mechanical design, board design and electrical architectures).
• Mature written and verbal communication skills, including experience creating presentations, writing memos, and presenting to an audience.
• Shrewd judgment and a keen sense for what differentiates good products from bad.
• Diplomatic disposition with a knack for cross-functional collaboration.
• Detail-oriented mindset.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
• Interest in product management; past experience is preferred but not required.

Physical Demands

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Occasional standing and walking within the office.
• Manual dexterity to operate computer equipment.
• Visual acuity to read screens and documents.
• Occasional reaching, bending, or stooping.
• Lifting and carrying items up to 20 pounds occasionally.