Product Manager, Control & Safety Ecosystem

Overview Remote The Product Manager (PM) for the Control & Safety Ecosystem is a high-impact leadership role responsible for the FORT platform's intelligent control layer and safety-critical core. This role acts as the primary architect of the product vision, bridging the gap between engineering requirements and market-moving solutions. The PM will engage with customers earlier in the lifecycle to elicit requirements that shape the future of autonomous machine control, ensuring the platform is compliant, secure, and a driver of growth into new industrial and government verticals. Key Responsibilities Roadmap Ownership: Define and execute the 12-month roadmap for the platform’s control & safety layers, prioritizing innovations that drive autonomy and machine intelligence. Customer Discovery: Lead the discovery phase by conducting research and engaging with stakeholders to identify needs, ensuring customer-centric requirements are established before technical development begins. Safety as a Competitive Advantage: Position the safety-critical architecture as a primary market differentiator, ensuring the product vision aligns with global standards and customer trust. New Vertical Expansion: Lead technical proposal efforts for high-stakes innovative projects. Identify and target new verticals that align with the platform vision, ensuring FORT remains the standard for safety governance across industries. Technical Execution & System Governance Requirement Lifecycle Excellence: Orchestrate a tool-agnostic requirement architecture that drives simplicity and clarity for engineering teams while maintaining rigorous compliance with ISO 9001 and SIL standards. Regulatory & Security Navigation: Act as the strategic lead for global regulatory shifts (e.g., EU Machinery Regulation, Cyber Resilience Act), ensuring the platform remains ahead of compliance curves. Standards Expertise: Maintain expert knowledge of and ensure product compliance with key functional safety standards, including ISO 13849 and IEC 61508. Security Integration: Proactively monitor the evolving security landscape, integrating security-by-design principles into all functional requirements. Interface Ownership: Own the requirement lifecycle for safety-critical hardware-software interfaces and controls integration. Cross-Functional Impact Analysis: Conduct high-level trade studies and impact analysis to ensure technical alignment across all platform layers, minimizing risk and maximizing system reliability for existing and new projects. Quality & Certification (QE): Partner with Quality Engineering and Safety teams to oversee certification efforts (e.g., SIL 3) and ensure the control layer meets the highest "Definition of Done" standards. Stakeholder & Lifecycle Management Strategic Communication: Distill complex system architectures into clear, value-driven narratives for executive leadership and external partners. Operational Simplicity: Streamline the transition of features through the Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC), ensuring that compliance processes support development velocity. Feedback Integration: Monitor field data and support trends to identify systemic improvements, ensuring long-term stability and scalability of the control ecosystem. Backlog Governance: Act as the Product Owner, managing the control backlog and ensuring all product decisions are grounded in validated metrics. Go-to-Market Support: Partner with Marketing and Sales to develop technical collateral, user guidance, and launch strategies for new cloud and data products. Qualifications Experience: 4+ years of experience in Product Management or Systems Engineering within high-integrity environments (e.g., aerospace, robotics, or medical). AI-First Mindset: Proficient in leveraging machine intelligence, predictive safety, and data-driven insights to integrate AI into the core product strategy. Safety & Systems Expertise: Deep understanding of functional safety principles and the ability to manage products at the intersection of complex logic and physical machine control. Methodology & Frameworks: Expert knowledge of the Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC) and experience operating within Agile/Scrum for complex systems. Technical Tools: Proficient in Monday.com and Jira; experienced with advanced requirement management platforms and system modeling tools; experienced with embedded systems, RTOS, and safety-critical HW/SW integration. Market Acumen: Ability to support business development for complex government and industrial contracts, with a focus on creating new market opportunities. Leadership: Strong collaborative skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority. Drive: Highly motivated to achieve aggressive goals aligned with the company mission. Equal Opportunity Employer : Fort Robotics provides equal opportunity in all hiring decisions. This description reflects the core job content and does not include candidate personal data or application-process details. #J-18808-Ljbffr