Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Zaden Technologies, Inc. is on a mission to simplify the delivery and improve the utility of software products for their customers. They are seeking a Technical Product Manager to bridge the gap between engineering execution and customer-ready software, defining MVP scope and driving the product roadmap while collaborating with engineering and sales teams.
Responsibilities
- Define and hold the MVP cut line for each product — no scope creep, no pre-launch feature drift
- Own and maintain the product roadmap across the full product portfolio in partnership with engineering
- Maintain an always-on demo environment; "demo-able in staging" is your definition of done
- Translate requirements from federal and enterprise customers into prioritized, precise engineering tickets
- Run structured user research and drive product decisions from evidence, not opinion
- Hold the honest line between selling the future and demoing the now
- Coordinate go-to-market timing for each shippable slice with sales and leadership
- Communicate fluidly in two directions — brief program managers in their language, write precise tickets for developers
Skills
- U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain a security clearance
- 5+ years of product management or equivalent product delivery experience
- Demonstrated track record of taking a product from zero to one inside a complex organization with real stakeholders, competing priorities, and constraints
- Proven experience shipping software to paying customers — you know the difference between 'capability exists' and 'product is ready to sell'
- Technical fluency: able to hold scope conversations with engineers, read a pull request, and recognize when 'almost done' is actually weeks away
- Proficiency with roadmap and delivery tools such as Jira, Linear, GitLab, etc
- Hands-on experience with AI assistants and agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor, or Copilot) in daily work
- Experience in high-stakes, multi-stakeholder, regulated environments (defense, aerospace, government-adjacent, healthcare, finance, or similar)
- Bachelor's degree in a technical or quantitative field (computer science, software or systems engineering, information systems, electrical or mechanical engineering) or equivalent hands-on product experience
- Active security clearance
- Familiarity with DoD, federal research labs, or federal procurement, or enterprise software sold into government
- Experience delivering against government contract schedules or SBIR milestones
- Background in aerospace, defense tech, or engineering automation software
- Exposure to MBSE, systems engineering, or model-based workflows
- Familiarity with MBSE/SysML tooling such as Cameo/MagicDraw or SysML v2
- Proficiency with product analytics tools such as Amplitude or Mixpanel, plus enough SQL to pull your own answers
- Experience with design and collaboration tools: Figma, Miro, Confluence, or Notion
- Cloud platform experience with AWS or Azure (GovCloud a plus)
- Master's degree in a technical field or MBA with a technology focus
- Product or agile certification (CSPO, Pragmatic Institute, or SAFe) or cloud certification (AWS or Azure)
Company Overview