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Saronic · Product Eng- Where
- Austin, TX
- Posted
- Aug 20
Saronic Technologies is a leader in revolutionizing autonomy at sea, dedicated to developing state-of-the-art solutions that enhance maritime operations through autonomous and intelligent platforms.
Job Overview
We are seeking an Associate Product Manager to contribute to the strategy, development, and delivery of cutting-edge autonomous maritime products. Reporting to a Product or Senior Product Manager, you’ll own a defined product area, carry distinct responsibilities, provide ongoing support to key Saronic products, and contribute to building and maintaining cross-Product team resources. This role is designed for junior product managers or hardware or software engineers looking to shift into product management. We will train your skills; we need your enthusiasm, organization, judgement, work ethic, comfort with ambiguity, and curiosity.
What you'd do
- Product Strategy: Support the development of a comprehensive product strategy that is aligned to Saronic's vision and considerate of defense and commercial requirements.
- Analyze operational needs, market trends, competition, and user feedback to identify opportunities and drive product differentiation.
- Product Development: Dig deep with engineering, production, and mission operations teams to drive execution and push product development forward.
- Get underway on a ship, walk the production line, and sit with the software team to understand what’s happening and what needs to be done to move at speed.
- Roadmap Planning: Create and maintain a detailed product roadmap for an initiative, product component, or other effort nested within the responsibilities of a Product Manager.
- Target both immediate success and integration into broader Saronic activities and priorities.
- Content Generation: Proactively generate content to provide updates and educate both internal and external stakeholders.
- Help non-technical audiences understand how our products work and the rationale behind our design choices.
- Help technical audiences understand what customers need and how our products need to function to ensure customer success.
- Intra-Team Support: Build and maintain internal tools, documentation, and other materials that enable the Product function at Saronic.
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
- Occasional standing and walking within the office
- Manual dexterity to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and other office equipment
- Visual acuity to read screens, documents, and reports
- Occasional reaching, bending, or stooping to access file drawers, cabinets, or office supplies
What they want
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related field
- Shrewd judgement and a keen sense for what differentiates good products from bad
- Diplomatic disposition with knack for cross-functional collaboration
- Strong technical background with knowledge of autonomous systems and/or constituent technologies (sensors and perception, radios and networking, structures and mechanical design, board design and electrical architectures, etc)
- Mature written and verbal communication skills, with comfort and experience creating presentations, writing memos, and presenting to an audience
- Interest in product management; past experience is preferred but not required
- Detail-oriented mindset for all projects, large and small