Product Manager - Interfaces & Configuration

Responsibilities:

• Interface and configuration product definition: Define interface- and configuration-related product capabilities spanning airborne systems, mission systems, autonomy, ground segment, simulation, and mission data products; translate operational needs, integration challenges, and program objectives into prioritized capability increments; and maintain a clear roadmap for interface maturity, schema evolution, and configuration readiness aligned to flight events and demonstrations.
• Integration intent and interface expectations: Define interface expectations, integration boundaries, and compatibility assumptions across systems and environments; establish product-level guidance for interface versioning, backward compatibility, and transition planning; and identify interface dependencies and integration risks while driving alignment across teams.
• Baseline readiness and consistency: Define what constitutes a release-ready interface and configuration baseline from a product and readiness perspective, ensure expectations remain consistent across simulation, HITL, and flight environments, and track baseline maturity and readiness risks while surfacing issues early.
• ICD and schema lifecycle support: Define product expectations for the creation, evolution, and use of Interface Control Documents (ICDs), schemas, APIs, and message catalogs, ensuring alignment with product intent, operational workflows, and integration needs while supporting versioning, deprecation, and transition planning across programs and increments.
• Model-based artifacts and traceability: Define expectations for how SysML models, interface definitions, and configuration artifacts support integration, verification, and traceability, ensuring artifacts are usable, consumable, and aligned with product needs while partnering with modeling and systems teams to reflect product intent in interface-related models.
• Conformance and quality expectations: Define product requirements for interface conformance, schema validation, and regression protection, ensure automated checks, validation, and integration testing expectations are incorporated into planning and release readiness, and use feedback loops to identify recurring issues and prioritize improvements.
• Change management and release coordination: Support Change Control Board (CCB) discussions by framing interface and configuration changes in terms of product impact, readiness, and risk; ensure approved changes are reflected in updated product plans and release scope; and track downstream impacts on cost, schedule, and integration risk.
• Configuration status awareness: Maintain product-level visibility into configuration status across as-designed, as-built, as-tested, and as-flown states, ensuring status information supports readiness discussions, reviews, and customer communication while highlighting configuration-related risks to demonstrations, flight events, and delivery.
• Integration, test, and flight enablement: Ensure interface and configuration expectations support deterministic integration, testing, and flight operations, partner with integration and test teams to diagnose interface- or configuration-driven issues, and support readiness discussions prior to major flight events.
• Customer and stakeholder engagement: Support customer and partner engagements related to interfaces, integration approach, and configuration readiness, help shape customer-facing artifacts and transition packages, and ensure interface-related product decisions are clearly communicated to internal and external stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline. 

• 8+ years of experience delivering complex, integrated aerospace or mission systems. 

• Demonstrated experience defining and coordinating interface- and integration-heavy product capabilities. 

• Strong familiarity with ICD-driven development, OMS, UCI, APIs, schemas, and message-based architectures. 

• Understanding of configuration management concepts and their impact on integration and readiness. 

• Experience working across simulation, integration, test, and flight environments. 

• Strong cross-functional communication skills with engineering, test, and program teams. 

• Active Secret clearance required; TS/SCI preferred. 

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Experience supporting flight test, demonstrations, or rapid prototyping programs. 

• Familiarity with SITL, HITL, and high-fidelity simulation environments. 

• Background working with DoD customers and transition-focused programs.