Drimva

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Forward Deployed Product Manager, Public Sector

$200K–$345K

New York, NY +3 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jul 14, 2026

Location
New York, NY
Washington, DC
New York, New York, United States
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Experience
6+ years in product management, technical program management, or customer-facing product ownership.

About the job

Own product outcomes and production deployments for military planning and real-time AI and alerting capabilities across U.S. national security customers, translating field needs into platform direction.

What you'll do

  • Lead product delivery and customer value across military planning and national security accounts for LUX, coordinating stakeholders and teams.
  • Drive deployments from contract to production in classified or operationally constrained environments, resolving product, integration, policy, and execution blockers.
  • Translate operational workflows and constraints into evidence-backed product input, build senior stakeholder trust, and identify value-based expansion opportunities.

What they ask for

  • Active TOP SECRET security clearance; TS/SCI eligibility preferred.
  • 6+ years in product management, technical program management, or a customer-facing product ownership role.
  • Direct experience with the U.S. Department of War or broader U.S. national security community; experience shipping AI or data products into large, constrained, classified, or highly regulated organizations.
  • Working knowledge of military planning and modeling/simulation, or real-time streaming data systems; ability to travel, including to classified facilities.

Nice to have

  • Direct experience with AI/ML platform products, including agentic capabilities, data labeling, RLHF, fine-tuning, or model evaluation.
  • Familiarity with Kafka, Flink, or Kinesis; startup, forward-deployed, or military/DoD/DoW civilian experience.

Pay

$210,000 — $345,000 USD (base salary); $200,000 — $311,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

AFSIM, Kafka, Flink, Kinesis

AI focus

Leads product outcomes and deployments for AI capabilities in military planning and real-time alerting; brings customer and operational requirements to platform teams. The posting also cites AI/ML platforms, agents, RLHF, fine-tuning, and model evaluation as relevant experience.

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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)