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Red Cat Holdings

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

🚀 Aerospace

🔧 Hardware

🔐 Security

Aerospace • Hardware • Security

Red Cat Holdings is a U. S. -based developer and manufacturer of autonomous unmanned systems and intelligence solutions for defense and security customers. The company builds and integrates small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS), FPV drones, extended short-range rotorcraft, and uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) — marketed under product lines like Teal, ARACHNID, Edge 130, and Blue Ops — to provide ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance), sensor-to-shooter capabilities, and command-and-control ecosystems. Red Cat emphasizes rugged, low-cost, modular hardware and autonomous software, partners with industry firms (e. g. , Palantir, AeroVironment), and serves military, government, and allied customers including selection for U. S. Army short-range reconnaissance programs.

📋 Description

• Act as a strategic advisor to Product Managers within Teal Drones, FlightWave, Blue Ops, Apium, and other teams. • Aid them in defining and executing their individual product roadmaps while ensuring alignment with the broader Red Cat vision. • Create, maintain, and evangelize standardized Product Development practices across the entire Red Cat family. • Develop and implement a common set of processes, templates, and tools (e.g., PRD templates, gate review structures, and NPI checklists) to drive consistency and quality. • Support Red Cat leadership by building and maintaining integrated master schedules and timelines. • Consolidate milestones from all subsidiaries to provide a single, transparent view of the portfolio’s progress, risks, and dependencies. • Identify opportunities to leverage common tools and platforms across subsidiaries to reduce redundancy and accelerate time-to-market for air and maritime systems. • Lead the "Global Product Development" onboarding for newly acquired companies, integrating their existing workflows into the standardized Red Cat framework.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in technical, product, or project management field. • 7+ years in product development or program management, with a heavy focus on hardware-software integration specifically within a holding company or multi-subsidiary environment. • 11+ years of directly related work experience in lieu of a degree. • Proven track record of building and scaling standardized product development lifecycles (e.g., Phase-Gate, Agile-Hardware) across disparate teams. • Expert-level proficiency in creating Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) and managing complex, multi-layered timelines. • A "servant-leader" approach with the ability to influence and support Product Managers who may report to different business units. • Familiarity with the unique challenges of unmanned systems (UAVs/USVs), including defense compliance, hardware-software integration, and aerospace manufacturing. • Experience in M&A integration, specifically merging product development cultures and toolsets. • Advanced proficiency in portfolio management tools (e.g., Jira Align, Smartsheet, or Microsoft Project).

🏖️ Benefits

• Base pay, plus generous annual equity package and potential bonuses.