Senior Product Manager
About this role
OVERVIEW OF ROLE
As a Senior Product Manager at Advanced Navigation, you hold end-to-end accountability for the success of your product line. You are responsible for the commercial success and technical integrity of our INS family. This role requires a rare blend of high-level strategic thinking and the ability to "deep dive" into the daily engineering grind. You will bridge the gap between market requirements and technical execution, leading trade-off discussions across Hardware, Firmware, and Software to deliver world-class PNT (Positioning, Navigation, and Timing) solutions.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Product ownership & strategy
Drive commercial success: own the end-to-end P&L, revenue growth, and market penetration strategy for the INS product family.
Market requirement definition: define and document high-fidelity market requirements based on rigorous technical discovery with key customers and industry trends in Advanced Navigation’s strategic industries.
Roadmap leadership: architect and manage the INS product roadmap, balancing New Product Introduction (NPI) with essential sustaining engineering.
Portfolio optimization: analyze sales mix and competitive positioning to optimize product family pricing and profitability.
Engineering leadership & execution
Lead Technical Trade-offs: actively lead daily technical trade-off discussions between Hardware, Firmware, and Software teams. You must be able to debate technical constraints with engineers to ensure the best product outcome.
Stage-gate management: oversee the product lifecycle from initial concept through development, verification, launch, and end-of-life.
Technical discovery: lead deep-dive technical discovery sessions with key customers and strategic partners to validate complex software features and HW variants.
Lifecycle oversight: work closely with Engineering and support to prioritize bug fixes and product improvements based on data-driven customer impact.
Organizational Integration
Marketing partnership: collaborate with Marketing to provide the "technical core" for collateral, while delegating final production and distribution to the Marketing team.
Growth & values: evolve with the organization by taking on strategic tasks as the product line expands and embody the company’s values through quantifiable performance targets.
KEY MEASURABLES
- Product profitability: Support growth in revenue & margin for the INS product family by developing comprehensive platform strategies that deliver on Advanced Navigation’s strategic goals.
- Requirement fidelity: quality and clarity of market requirements, ensuring minimal "scope creep" during development phases.
- Engineering alignment: success in resolving technical bottlenecks and making timely trade-off decisions that keep R&D on schedule.
- Roadmap execution: timely delivery of Product deliverables as part of the Product Realization Process.
- Commercial feedback: satisfaction from key strategic customers regarding technical solution alignment.
QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering (Aeronautical, Mechatronics, Electrical, or similar technical field).
- Technical authority: proven ability to deep-dive into complex technical topics and build rapport/authority with highly specialized engineering teams.
- Strategic conflict resolution: skilled at negotiating constraints between different engineering disciplines (e.g., SW vs. HW limitations).
- Commercial acumen: strong understanding of market dynamics, pricing strategies, and P&L management.
- Communication: ability to translate complex technical trade-offs into clear business impact for executive stakeholders.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in technical & commercial leadership role
- Engineering background: broad experience across Hardware, Embedded Firmware, and Software development cycles.
- Domain expertise: proven experience working with Inertial Navigation (GNSS/INS) technologies.
- Industry context: experience in the defense industry using Assured PNT (Positioning, Navigation, and Timing) is highly desirable.
Company at a glance
Advanced Navigation is a global leader in navigation and autonomous systems. By leveraging capabilities in software-enhanced hardware, every solution delivers unrivaled capabilities and exceptional performance across land, air, sea and space applications where GPS is unreliable.
Made possible with extensive research, testing and vertically integrated manufacturing, the company has progressed into deep technology fields, including robotics, inertial, photonic and quantum sensing, artificial intelligence, underwater acoustics, and GPS antennas and receivers. Customers choose Advanced Navigation for rapid product delivery and unmatched technical field expertise.
Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with research and production facilities nationwide and offices globally. Advanced Navigation is an Australian manufacturer exporting worldwide. #JoinTheAutonomyRevolution
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