Product Director, Trusted Autonomy Product (Northern Virginia; Remote)

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Key Responsibilities

Own the product roadmap for the Trusted Space Autonomy Product. This includes balancing requirements that are central to the future of the core autonomy product.

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TS/SCI (w/ Poly desired) Security Clearance Job Description Trusted Space is seeking a Product Director, Trusted Autonomy Product to join our team to drive the development, deployment,

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Position Title: Product Director, Trusted Autonomy Product
Position ID: TA233
Location(s): Northern Virginia (desired); Remote (acceptable w/ travel)
Application Deadline: We are accepting applications on an ongoing basis
Security Clearance Requirement: TS/SCI (w/ Poly desired) Security Clearance

Job Description
Trusted Space is seeking a Product Director, Trusted Autonomy Product to join our team to drive the development, deployment, and adoption of our Trusted Space Autonomy Product. The Product Director will own the engineering, software architecture, product development, and deployment of the Trusted Space Autonomy Product. The Product Director will own the full product lifecycle—from ideation through commercialization—ensuring that our Trusted Space Autonomy Product is not just technically sound, but creates safe, reliable, and high-value solutions for our customers. This position will require technical expertise, collaboration expertise, and prior leadership experience leading cross-functional teams in developing products. As Trusted Space enters its next evolution of growth, the Trusted Space Autonomy Product will play a vital role in the strategic direction of the company resulting in next generation capabilities being delivered to our nation’s warfighters.

Key Responsibilities

Autonomy Roadmap: Own the product roadmap for the Trusted Space Autonomy Product. This includes balancing requirements that are central to the future of the core autonomy product.
Technical Specification: Translate high-level customer requirements into detailed technical specs, features, and acceptance criteria for engineering teams.
Data-Driven Prioritization: Leverage data, operational metrics, and KPIs to identify failure modes, measure performance, and prioritize engineering focus to improve system performance and efficiency.
Full-Lifecycle Ownership: Lead cross-functional teams spanning systems, software, test, and aerospace engineers.
Field Readiness & Deployment: Partner closely with Business Development, Program Execution, and other external facing teams to translate real-world constraints into product requirements, experiments, commissioning, and deployment.
Stakeholder Communication: Serve as the product evangelist, communicating technical progress, milestones, and roadmap status to executive leadership, partners, and customers.
Technical-Marketing Bridge: Provide the "source of truth" for technical documentation, release notes, and user guides to ensure internal teams and customers are prepared for rollouts.

Qualifications

TS/SCI Security Clearance
10+ years of product management, technical program management experience, or leading technical teams
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or Autonomy related fields
Direct experience with Agile Methodology
Direct experience architecting autonomous systems or complex AI/ML systems
Mission First Mindset - A strong desire to tackle our customers’ greatest problems to deliver innovative capabilities to the warfighter
Extreme Ownership – Ability to own the performance and results of the product while embedding the same level of ownership and responsibility throughout the product personnel as they execute the product development
Effective Communicator & Team Builder – Prior leadership experience demonstrated by assembling a world class team and effectively communicating the vision for future success
Problem Solver - Proven experience solving critical organizational challenges and customer problems
Ability to travel as needed in support of team meetings and internal strategy sessions

Desired Skills and Experience

TS/SCI (w/ Poly desired) Security Clearance
Direct experience with leading Agile development teams
Willingness to learn and adapt to a continually changing environment as customer requirements evolve
Prioritization under Ambiguity: Ability to make fast, data-driven decisions balancing safety, velocity, cost, and long-term platform flexibility

Compensation
The salary range for this role is $160,000 - $250,000. Please note that this range is a general guideline and can vary. Trusted Space, LLC considers several factors when extending an offer including, but not limited to: scope, location, position responsibilities, education/training, key skills and business considerations.

Benefits
Trusted Space seeks to create an environment where Employees are empowered and supported to achieve their full potential. We encourage life-long learning within our agile and innovative work environment. We offer competitive compensation and benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans; life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance; 401(k) plan; paid holidays and generous paid time off; short-term and long-term disability insurance; and other benefits to promote health, wellness, and a positive work-life balance.

About Trusted Space
Trusted Space is the premier provider of trusted autonomy and battlespace management software solutions enabling machine speed sensing, sense making, decision making, and acting for critical space and intelligence missions. Our portfolio includes trusted autonomy software products, real-time image processing capabilities, advanced space mission engineering services, and space operations & training solutions. We empower government and commercial customers to achieve mission superiority in space reconnaissance & surveillance, dynamic space operations, space-based ISR, and ground/command & control (C2) systems.

Rooted in our adherence to the Golden Rule – to treat others as we want to be treated – Trusted Space fosters a culture of innovation, mission-focus, agility, and technical excellence. We offer a collaborative and supportive work environment, world-class benefits, and work-life balance. We encourage life-long learning and continuous improvement in all we do. We consider it a privilege to work with our customers to provide solutions to their most difficult national security and intelligence challenges.

Trusted Space, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, veteran status, disability status or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. All aspects of employment are decided based on qualifications, merit, competence, performance, and business need.

DISCLAIMER: Trusted Space, LLC only uses the respective domains of trustedspace.com and trustedspace.us for official contact and any other domains are likely a scam and do not originate from our company. Trusted Space will never ask a candidate for access or pass codes to personal accounts including e-mails, bank accounts, CashApp, Paypal, Venmo, etc.

This is a full time position

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