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Mission Manager - Navy

Defense Unicorns specializes in rapid and reliable delivery of platform technologies for DoD mission environments, focusing on software deployment and security.

Defense Unicorns

Employee count: 51-200

AU, CA + 8 more

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EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION WILL REQUIRE U.S. CITIZENSHIP.

Role Description:

As a Product Manager for Navy, you will collaborate with Navy Tech Leads to establish a technical roadmap for Mission outcomes with Mission Heroes, and facilitate feedback from Delivery to Product.

Responsibilities:

  • Serves as a Product Manager for the Navy Domain.
    • Collaborates with Navy Tech Leads to establish technical roadmap for Mission Outcomes with Mission Heroes
    • Aligns Defense Unicorns’ Product Roadmaps to technical roadmap for your Hero and provides feedback to Product segment on Mission Need dates for features to drive adoption
    • Share and facilitate feedback from Delivery segment with Product segment regarding Defense Unicorns’ OSS projects and productized services
    • Work with Tech Leads to establish an aligned Delivery roadmap, using Product roadmaps
    • Follow company best practices in strategies for building Delivery solutions
    • Balance priorities from users, customers, stakeholders, and the team to deliver mission value in a scalable way
  • Fosters an environment for Unicorn growth, mentorship, and coaching within the team
  • Fosters an environment for Defense Unicorns values and principles to thrive

Travel Expectations: 4-12 times per year

The listed responsibilities are not exhaustive and additional responsibilities may be assigned based on the evolving needs of the organization. We are seeking a dynamic individual who is able to adapt and take on new responsibilities as they arise.

Preferred Experience and Qualifications:

  • US Citizenship and active SECRET clearance
  • Proficient in translating pain points to root cause problems and working with engineers to build a roadmap for value delivery
  • Proficient in modern software development processes and practices, including DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery, and User-Centered Design
    • Expertise with modern software development processes and practices, including DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery, User-Centered Design, and Value Stream Architecture, and varying Agile frameworks; able to apply and adapt principles and ceremonies from different frameworks to suit the team, the product, and the mission objectives
  • Experience managing cross functional engineering teams
  • Skilled in expectation management across different personas
  • Experience and passion for software delivery for Mission Success within the tech industry or Department of Defense
  • Exhibit enough technical depth to understand architectural decisions and translate in a way that stakeholders, users, and the team can understand and be aligned on

Who We Are

Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges. We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation. Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user experience and optionality, without compromising security. Our team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market.

What We Do

We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery. Defense Unicorns consolidates the best practices for security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation in order to meet the high security requirements valued by mission owners. Our solutions are agnostic by design and we believe that growing a robust ecosystem of secure, cloud-native software solutions can help enterprise customers inside and outside the federal market buy and integrate software more easily.

Who We Serve

Defense Unicorns’ customers are mission-focused leaders across public and private enterprises. We proudly support defense and civil agencies across the U.S. government and we work closely with the creators of leading-edge software solutions to deliver value to the mission-owner by improving the security and consumability of commercial software products.

What We Work On

  • Kubernetes
  • Cloud Environments (AWS/GCP and Azure)
  • Infrastructure-as-code (like Terraform/Pulumi)
  • Continuous Delivery and automation tooling
  • GitOps
  • Containers
  • CNCF projects and open source products and packages
  • Helm/Kustomize-Value Stream Mapping
  • Building and improving security delivery
  • Building Kubernetes and cloud native applications

Benefits Our Unicorns Enjoy

Health:

  • Medical/Dental/Vision
  • Premiums are 100% Company Paid
  • Health Reimbursement Account
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance

Financial:

  • 401k Retirement Plan
  • Company Stock Options
  • Home Office Budget

Leave:

  • We offer all full-time Unicorns Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus all Federal Holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s
  • Paid Parental Leave

Learning:

  • Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
  • Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)

Don’t have all the preferred experience or qualifications? Studies show that underrepresented groups like women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs if they don't meet every requirement listed.

At Defense Unicorns, we're committed to diversity. If you're enthusiastic about the role but don't match every criteria, we encourage you to apply. You could be the perfect fit for this or another role! Defense Unicorns is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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AIRGAP SOFTWARE DELIVERY
Rapidly Deploy DoD Software
Imagine software delivered anywhere the mission takes you, anytime the mission needs it—that's UDS. It's a game changer for software delivery in the DoD. Portable, secure, compliant—and most importantly, at the speed your missions require.

Accelerates ATO, Easy to Use, Open Source, Portable & Secure are just some of the highlights of the Unicorn Delivery Service (UDS). It enables fast, secure, and seamless software deployment in disconnected, resource-constrained environments. The Airgap Store arms mission operators with a marketplace of mission capabilities that support rapid deployments and ATOs, transforming the way applications are discovered and deployed by providing a centralized repository of trusted, pre-approved apps ready to deploy with UDS.

Defense Unicorns is trusted by the most secure and critical systems in the world, ensuring that no domain is left behind in software delivery. Our DevSecOps platform addresses the unique challenges of all DoD systems and domains, making UDS the most reliable integrated software delivery platform in complex DoD environments. We not only facilitate easy software deployment in Navy, Air Force, Army, and Space Missions but also ensure rapid software deployment for cybersecurity and operational adaptability.

At Defense Unicorns, we understand your challenges. We conduct deep dives into missions and desired outcomes to identify how UDS can aid your team. Our commitment is to accelerate the ATO process by responding to the majority of security control requirements for the most secure environments, thus enhancing mission success.

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Paid Parental Leave

Paid Parental Leave.

Home Office Setup Budget

Home Office Setup Budget.

Health Reimbursement Account

Health Reimbursement Account.

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