Director of Product Strategy – Commercial Defense
Code Metal
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Own product strategy and roadmap for commercial defense product lines, grounded in customer workflows, constraints, and adoption patterns
- Lead product discovery with primes, Tier 1 suppliers, and defense-focused technology companies to identify high-value, repeatable product opportunities
- Translate customer problems into clear product bets, success metrics, and sequencing decisions
- Engage directly with commercial defense customers to understand how they evaluate, adopt, and scale new technology
- Build credibility with technical, engineering, and product stakeholders inside customer organizations
- Identify patterns across customer engagements that inform platform capabilities rather than one-off solutions
- Partner closely with Growth to inform ICPs, value propositions, and opportunity shaping
- Collaborate deeply with Engineering to frame problems, explore solution spaces, and sequence product investments
- Provide clarity and focus to small, fast-moving teams operating in complex technical environments
- Help identify where Code Metal should - and should not - invest product effort within the defense market
- Represent the voice of the commercial defense customer internally, grounding decisions in external reality rather than internal assumptions
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in product management, technical product leadership, or adjacent roles in mission-critical or highly regulated industries
- Experience working with commercial defense customers, prime contractors, or defense-focused technology companies
- Strong product discovery skills, including customer interviewing, problem framing, and synthesis
- Technical fluency and ability to partner deeply with engineers
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, early-stage environments
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- US Citizen required; active security clearance is a plus
Benefits
- Pay depends on experience, but we strive to be at the upper end of the salary range
- Health care plan with 100% premium coverage, including medical, dental, and vision.
- 401k with 5% matching.
- Paid Time Off (Uncapped Vacation, plus Sick & Public Holidays).
- Flexible hybrid or remote work arrangement.
- Relocation assistance for qualifying employees.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
product managementproduct strategyproduct discoverycustomer interviewingproblem framingtechnical fluencysolution explorationsuccess metricsproduct roadmapcomplex technical environments
Soft Skills
communicationcross-functional collaborationcredibility buildingclarity and focusadaptabilitycustomer engagementstakeholder managementsynthesisleadershipteam collaboration
Certifications
active security clearance