layiq

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worthy; deserving; fitting; suitable.

A role, opportunity, or path that merits attention, time, and pursuit.

LAYIQ - Senior Product Manager, Forwarded Deployed at Anduril

Own warfighter outcomes, not features.
Embed with units, learn the mission, find the problems that matter most, and own them through development, fielding, and the work that comes after.
Build real relationships with the people in the fight.
Earn the trust of warfighters, commanders, staff, and subject matter experts. Become a partner who understands how the unit actually fights, not just what shows up in a requirements document.
Do the research in the field.
Learn by watching, asking questions, and taking part in real workflows. Turn what you learn into clear priorities.
Connect the fight to the product.
Map the users, decisions, workflows, systems, data, and dependencies behind an outcome, and use that to drive what gets built and integrated.
Design across the whole stack.
Do not default to a new app or a new screen. Work out whether an outcome needs an application change, a new or richer data model, an integration, a workflow that spans applications, or a change in how data moves across the Mesh.
Use the data model as a product tool.
Get to know what data exists, how it is represented, where it comes from, who uses it, and what has to change to make a workflow possible.
Design for the tactical edge.
Understand how the network and the hardware affect what the user sees and does. Account for degraded conditions, bandwidth, latency, and compute when you define a solution.
Pull the right people together.
Get warfighters, engineering, design, and the other teams around the same problem, and drive them toward one coherent answer.
Make ambiguous problems workable.
Be just as comfortable writing a strategy, sketching a workflow, working through a data flow with an engineer, or standing at a whiteboard with the people who will use the product.
Run the room.
Lead workshops, working groups, and design sessions. Get useful information out of a room, settle competing views, and leave with decisions and next steps.
Brief well and tell the story.
Communicate clearly to a few operators, to a large room, and to senior leadership. Adjust the level of detail for the audience without losing the substance.
Prototype before you spend engineering time.
Test ideas quickly with users so you get to the right answer faster.
Stay with it through fielding.
Watch whether the solution actually helps the mission, find where it breaks under real conditions, and feed that straight back into the product.
Look past the single request.
Spot the patterns that can become reusable across units and programs, instead of building a one-off every time.
WHO YOU ARE
Anduril moves fast and is scaling fast. We value ambition, hard work, a high bar, and a willingness to disrupt how things are normally done. The people who do well here tend to show these traits:
Bias for Action.
You ask for forgiveness, not permission, and you hate waiting around to be told what to do.
Outcome-Oriented.
You figure out what the business needs and work backward from there.
Customer Focused.
You have real empathy for users and build things they actually want to use.
Dive Deep.
You sweat the details and get into the weeds to find the root cause of a problem.
Ownership.
You care about your products and about everything the business depends on them for. You hold yourself accountable for what your systems do and for what they fail to do.
Agility.
You change direction without drama when the priorities change.
First Principles Thinking.
You solve problems based on what is actually best here, not because a vendor recommended it or because it is how your last company did it.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance.
4 to 8 years in product management, product scope definition, or service design, or an equivalent record of turning hard user problems into fielded solutions.
A track record of translating technical and domain-specific information into narratives, CONOPS, mission threads, and feature definitions.
Experience doing research and synthesis with users and SMEs, and building a roadmap from what you learn.
A history of earning trust with non-technical, operational users and partnering with them, not just collecting their requirements.
The ability to balance needs across engineering, data, and business stakeholders.
Comfort working with people across a wide range of technical backgrounds, and the willingness to learn technical systems well enough to use them in your product decisions.
Strong facilitation and whiteboarding skills, including leading interactive planning and decomposition sessions.
The ability to do your own design work in common tools such as Figma.
Strong organizational skills and reliability.
Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time, including to field and training environments.

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