Senior Product Manager (Defense)

Location: San Francisco, California, United States; full-time onsite work is required. Regular travel may be required for product testing, customer demonstrations, integrations, and cross-functional collaboration.

Salary: $140,000–$176,000 base compensation annually, excluding bonuses, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops defense products powered by Coherent Distributed Networks for warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams.

What you will do

• Own product direction, prioritization, and execution for tactical command-and-control software and an integration platform.
• Translate operator workflows, mission needs, and interoperability requirements into product decisions and engineering priorities.
• Define capability ownership and interfaces across C2 software, shared platform services, external sensors, and higher-level C2 systems.
• Partner with software, systems, hardware, and integration engineers on interfaces, data flows, latency, failure modes, networking, and deployment constraints.
• Balance urgent program-specific integrations with reusable platform capabilities that reduce one-off work.
• Build alignment across engineering, programs, operations, and business teams.

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant experience, including substantial ownership of complex software products and approximately 5+ years in product management or an equivalent product ownership role.
• Experience with software interacting with hardware, sensors, networks, external systems, or real-world operations.
• Working knowledge of systems-engineering practices including requirements definition and traceability, interface definition, and trade-off analysis.
• Ability to operate in technically complex and ambiguous environments, work deeply with engineers, and make sound product trade-offs.
• Strong written and verbal communication, product judgment, and ability to drive alignment without formal authority.
• Must work full-time onsite with the CHAOS software team in San Francisco.

Nice to have

• Experience in C2, battle management, mission systems, air defense, radar and sensors, autonomy, aerospace, tactical networks, systems integration, or related operational software.
• Familiarity with interoperability standards such as Link 16 and TAK/Cursor-on-Target.
• Military operational experience, especially in air defense or adjacent missions, combined with software or product experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits fully paid by the company.
• 401(k) with a 50% company match up to 6% of pay, plus FSA, HSA, and life insurance.
• Unlimited PTO, free daily lunch, no-meeting Fridays, and a casual dress code.
• Relocation assistance, pre-IPO stock option grants, and planned annual bonuses.
• Approximately 350 employees across five global offices.