Product Manager/Fires SME

Required Certification(s): None

Summary A commander looking at a recommended target and effect pairing asks two questions: why this, and why now? Target Effect Pairing (TEP) is a capability for USPACOM Joint Fires, built on the Maven Smart System, that answers both with AI recommendations a targeting staff can trace, explain, and audit. It speeds up capabilities analysis and the commander's decision and force assignment, while every inherently governmental decision stays with a human. Engineers can build the software. They can't tell on their own whether it reflects how joint targeting is really done.

That judgment is yours. You bring operational targeting experience and the working habits of a product manager, and you turn joint targeting doctrine, JFE and JTCB workflows, and target development standards into requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria. You work with a Senior UX Designer, software engineers and architects, and a Technical Program Manager who owns backlog priority and government acceptance. You own whether what gets built is operationally right.

Requirements are still forming, and much of the team has never worked in targeting. The recommendations this capability produces will also be independently assessed for quality, so output that merely looks reasonable won't hold up.

Minimum Qualifications

• Proven ability to drive progress and create clarity in fast moving, ambiguous environments. Ability to maintain required TS/SCI access.

• You have done targeting work at a combatant command, the Joint Staff, a component, or an Air Operations Center: target development, target systems analysis, or combat assessment. Joint Targeting School graduates are preferred.
• You have worked inside a JFE or JTCB process and can explain how its decisions get made, beyond having attended.
• You have owned requirements for a digital product. You led discovery, wrote user stories and acceptance criteria, and shaped a backlog a delivery team built from.
• You have explained the basis, assumptions, and limits of a targeting recommendation to people outside targeting, well enough that they could build from it.
• You have worked with UX and engineering teams through refinement, reviews, and demonstrations in Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or a similar agile approach.
• You have worked in DoW, Joint, combatant command, Navy/NIWC, or CDAO mission environments, including government milestone reviews or acceptance processes.
• You are familiar with AI-enabled decision support, explainability, and human-machine teaming. Experience with Maven Smart System or Joint Targeting Toolbox is a plus.
• You use Jira, Confluence, or comparable product and agile delivery tools.

Location: Honolulu, HI | National Capital Region | On-site

Clearance Level: TS/SCI eligibility required

All work takes place in secure facilities. One position sits with the development team in Honolulu. One sits in the National Capital Region and travels 50% of the time.

Environmental Conditions

Work is primarily performed in professional office, Government, and technical development environments. This position requires regular on-site collaboration in the San Diego area, including work with Government and development stakeholders at or in support of NIWC-Pacific. Periodic travel may be required to support operational stakeholders and other mission activities. Work may occur in secure facilities with restrictions on personal electronic devices and remote connectivity.

Strength Demands

Sedentary to light physical demands associated with professional office and technical work environments. Occasional movement or transport of laptops, documents, and other standard work materials may be required.

Physical Requirements

Regular use of computers and standard office equipment; ability to participate in meetings, technical working sessions, and collaborative development activities for extended periods; ability to communicate effectively in person and through approved electronic means; and ability to travel as required.

Employees of Agile Defense are our number one priority, and the importance we place on our culture here is fundamental. Our culture is alive and evolving, but it always stays true to its roots. Here, you are valued as a family member, and we believe that we can accomplish great things together. Agile Defense has been highly successful in the past few years due to our employees and the culture we create together.

What makes us Agile? We call it the 6Hs, the values that define our culture and guide everything we do. Together, these values infuse vibrancy, integrity, and a tireless work ethic into advancing the most important national security and critical civilian missions. It's how we show up every day. It's who we are.

• Happy – Be Infectious. Happiness multiplies and creates a positive and connected environment where motivation and satisfaction have an outsized effect on everything we do.
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At Agile Defense we know that action defines the outcome and new challenges require new solutions. That’s why we always look to the future and embrace change with an unmovable spirit and the courage to build for what comes next.

Our vision is to bring adaptive innovation to support our nation's most important missions through the seamless integration of advanced technologies, elite minds, and unparalleled agility—leveraging a foundation of speed, flexibility, and ingenuity to strengthen and protect our nation’s vital interests.

Requisition #: 1959