FTEN Senior Product Manager

Fuse Product Manager

Fuse builds innovative communications, networking, and computing solutions that improve the sharing of information, video, text, and voice among operators distributed throughout the airborne, maritime, and ground environments. We are a technology firm creating in-house software, network and hardware solutions that support our noble cause of advancing warfighter capabilities with elegant, user-focused communications, networks, and software systems.

About This Role

You set the product vision and ensure its execution. From shaping a multiyear roadmap to refining sprint-level stories, you translate mission needs, tech realities, and financial constraints into a coherent strategyand drive cross-functional squads to deliver capability that matters. Your canvas spans market sensing, portfolio stewardship, agile backlog management, and go-to-market orchestration. You are both strategist and executor, toggling seamlessly between executive conversations and daily dev standups.

What You'll Do

Vision & Roadmap

• Define and maintain a 3-year product vision aligned to mission impact and revenue goals.
• Ideate new FTEN functions to support the warfighter (CRAD, IR&D, CRADA) and to increase FTEN market discrimination
• Maintain a rolling 12-month roadmap with quarterly KPI/KPPs; ensure PI objectives trace back to strategy.

Market & Mission Sensing

• Track DoW capability gaps, SBIR trends, and competitor moves; translate insights into differentiated features and value propositions.
• Engage directly with warfighters, acquisition offices, and partners to validate priorities.

Design Thinking

• Exposure to design thinking methods such as problem framing, ideation, prototyping, and iteration.
• Ability to translate user needs, feedback, or pain points into practical solutions or improvements.

Communication

• Ability to explain ideas clearly, ask thoughtful questions, and share updates in a timely manner.
• Comfortable adapting communication style for different audiences, such as peers, managers, customers, or cross-functional partners.
• Experience presenting ideas, documenting decisions, and summarizing complex information.

Financial Stewardship

• Own FTEN execution including cost and schedule of defined Initiatives/Epics/Jira Tickets
• Contributes to the cost model for sustainment and feature development
• Negotiate with Programs for Initiative definition and funding of Features within the Technology Jira Project
• Report progress to stakeholders (cost/schedule) based on execution metrics/tools (IMS, JIRA, etc). Recommend COAs based on progress metrics.
• Defend investment proposals and tradeoffs with executive staff.

Lifecycle & Compliance Governance

• Gatekeep epic approval through SAFe portfolio Kanban; shepherd MVPs from TRL 3 up.
• Ensure compliance with Cyber and Zero Trust accreditation requirements.
• Always have a functional fully featured FTEN system (Golden SUT)
• Governance of 15 FTE matrixed engineers spanning software, network, cyber, design, and systems.

Backlog & Iteration Execution

• Own and continuously groom the Team Backlog; balance new capability, tech debt, and compliance.
• Author crisp Initiatives/Epics/User stories with clear acceptance criteria; approve/reject based on Definition of Done.
• Lead iteration planning, daily syncs, demos, and acceptance to ensure alignment with PI objectives.

Stakeholder Alignment

• Run quarterly Product Syncs with executives, engineers, and finance leads.
• Serve as first-line liaison with Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, QA, and Ops to resolve impediments.

Go-to-Market Enablement

• Align capture plans, pricing strategies, and demo assets with Growth & Capture (G&C).
• Empower teams to pitch coherent, compelling product stories that withstand source-selection scrutiny.

Continuous Improvement

• Track and act on metrics: velocity, lead time, defect escape rate, and portfolio ROI.
• Drive Inspect & Adapt actions across teams and trains.