Jobs in Torrance, CA

About the role

The Director of Product will be Neros' first dedicated product leader, reporting directly to the CEO and responsible for defining what we build and why. This role owns the product roadmap to translate founder vision, warfighter needs, and battlefield lessons into prioritized product direction across existing and future platforms.

What you'll bring

• The Director of Product must combine strong product instinct, planning, and presentation skills to represent Neros' systems to military operators, senior government stakeholders, private industry leaders, and partners around the world.
• 8+ years in product management, systems engineering, or technical strategy roles with direct exposure to hardware systems
• Demonstrated ability to own a product roadmap end-to-end: defining requirements, driving prioritization, and shipping products in collaboration with engineering organization
• Proven ability to operate at an executive level with minimal pre-existing infrastructure
• Strong written and verbal communication skills able to produce capability briefs, concept documents, and proposal inputs that resonate with technical, operational, and government audiences
• Technical aptitude and understanding around how UAS platforms work to engage meaningfully with leadership on engineering, cost, and manufacturability tradeoffs
• Familiarity with the current landscape of drone warfare, including FPV systems, autonomous capabilities, and the interplay between commercial technology and military application
• Willingness and enthusiasm to travel to our end users, including where our drone systems are actively deployed
• Strong product intuition and a track record of making design and capability decisions that meaningfully and measurably improve how end users leverage hardware systems
• Active TS/SCI clearance or ability to obtain one
• Experience working with or selling to military customers, including familiarity with government stakeholders, acquisition processes, and operational end users
• Experience at a fast-scaling hardware startup or defense tech company operating at startup pace with large-scale production expectations