Senior Product Manager

July 18

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Forterra

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Transport • Defense

Forterra is a company that specializes in autonomous vehicle technology, with a focus on defense and commercial applications. Their flagship product, AutoDrive®, provides self-driving capabilities for both structured and unstructured environments, tackling challenges in harsh and complex conditions. Forterra's solutions are designed to optimize logistics, increase operational efficiency, and enhance safety for both soldiers in the battlefield and civilians in industrial settings. The company collaborates with partners like Anduril Industries and Hanwha Defense USA to deliver autonomous capabilities to the US Army, aiming to reduce risks and protect lives. Their technology is adaptive to varied conditions, operating seamlessly on roads, off-roads, rural, industrial sites, and more.

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

🚗 Transport

📋 Description

• Drive Product Impact: Position yourself where you can best influence outcomes—whether that’s observing users, testing in the field, meeting with customers, or brainstorming with engineers. • Test in the Real World: Help validate product features in real-world environments to ensure they meet user needs and uncover critical gaps. • Ensure we’re testing the right things in the right order with the right value proposition. • Partner with Growth and Engineering: Attend customer meetings alongside Growth and Engineering to gather insight first-hand and shape upcoming work. • Engage with Users: Observe and interview users of the product to understand their workflows and identify pain points and unmet needs. • Define Customer Needs & Identify Roadmap Gaps: Partner with Product Leadership to identify roadmap gaps, proposing initiatives that address key customer and business needs. • Create Product Artifacts: Develop and own backlogs, user journeys, and other tools to align key stakeholders on desired outcomes and priorities. • Enable Execution: Collaborate with technical product managers and tech leads to ensure work is well-understood, well-scoped, and targeted to user needs. • Cross-Functional Communication: Act as a connective leader—aligning teams, surfacing risks, and resolving interdependencies across the organization. • Make Tradeoffs Wisely: Make scope and priority tradeoff decisions in collaboration with Product Leadership and Product Owners. • Keep Stakeholders Informed: Communicate clearly with Engineering, Growth, Executives, and others on roadmap progress, risks, and delivery status.

🎯 Requirements

• You have 5–8+ years of product management experience, with a strong record of delivering high-impact B2B or technically sophisticated products—ideally in areas like robotics or autonomous systems. • You’re skilled at talking to customers and translating their pain points into actionable insights and opportunities. • You’ve led cross-functional teams through ambiguity and come out the other side with excellent products. • You don’t need to have all the answers—you know how to find them by asking the right questions to the right people. • You’re technical enough to earn the trust of engineers, hold your own in brainstorming sessions, and ensure feasibility. • You believe great products are built in the field, not in the ivory tower. • You’re comfortable embedding yourself wherever you can best influence outcomes —at customer sites, in cross-functional meetings, at our test sites, and in Slack. • Preferred Qualifications: Experience working in AV, robotics, or complex hardware/software systems. Familiarity with agile environments and associated tools (e.g., Jira). Previous work in a startup or 0-to-1 environment. Prior experience in a technical role (e.g., software engineering, hardware development).

🏖️ Benefits

• Premium Healthcare Benefits: Three plan options, including an HSA-eligible plan, with Forterra covering 80% of the plan premium for you and your dependents. • Basic Life/AD&D, short and long-term disability insurance plans 100% covered by Forterra, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents. • Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a winter break in December. • Competitive paid time off (PTO) offering 20 days accrued per year. • A minimum of 7 weeks fully paid parental leave for birth/adoption. • A $9k annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend. • Fully stocked beverage refrigerators with all the Celsius your little heart desires. • 401(k) retirement savings plan, including traditional, Roth 401(k), and after-tax deferral with company match up to 4%.