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Applied Intuition

Product Manager - DroneStack

AI summary of the role

Product Manager for DroneStack, a defense autonomy product enabling swarms of unmanned aircraft for ISR and strike missions.

What you’ll do

  • Own product strategy for DroneStack, defining the roadmap from program-driven deliveries to scalable multi-customer product line.
  • Conduct primary user research with military operators in the field, at bases, and with international partners; travel up to 20% including internationally.
  • Drive the programs-to-products transition by identifying patterns across customer engagements and defining abstractions for repeatable products.
  • Shape operator interfaces (mission control, planning, review) with engineering for non-technical users.

What you’ll bring

  • 5–7 years of product management experience across at least two meaningfully different environments.
  • Track record of shipping products end-to-end from research through launch and iteration.
  • Exceptional research instincts: ability to learn a market from scratch via user interviews, workflows, and field exercises.
  • Comfort with deep technical systems (hardware + software, real-time systems, developer tools, infrastructure).

Technologies

DroneStack · Acuity · Axle · ISR · autonomy stack · mission control · edge compute · unmanned aircraft

About Applied Intuition

Builds the toolchain, vehicle OS and autonomy stacks that automakers, defense and off-road OEMs use to ship AI-driven vehicles.

Series F

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our expectation is that employees primarily work from their Applied Intuition office 5 days a week. However, we also recognize the importance of flexibility and trust our employees to manage their schedules responsibly. This may include occasional remote work, starting the day with morning meetings from home before heading to the office, or leaving earlier when needed to accommodate family commitments. About the role Applied Intuition's DroneStack team builds autonomous software and hardware that enables swarms of unmanned aircraft to find, fix, track, target, and engage in contested and denied environments. Our technology — from the Acuity ISR+Strike autonomy stack to the Axle edge compute hardware — is deployed on real platforms with real operators, across multiple airframe vendors and mission sets. The team has proven the technology through successful field demonstrations and live
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