Centinus offers an AI-powered drone software platform for remote piloting, livestreaming, and fleet management, enhancing situational awareness for public safety and security operations. Their…
Centinus offers an AI-powered drone software platform for remote piloting, livestreaming, and fleet management, enhancing situational awareness for public safety and security operations. Their…
Centinus delivers AI-powered protective systems that enable autonomous drone operations and real-time situational awareness for defense, public safety, and critical infrastructure customers. Our platform applies AI to aerial intelligence, sensor-driven workflows, and operational decision support, helping customers detect, interpret, and respond to events in demanding real-world environments.
About the Role
Centinus is seeking a Product Manager to drive product definition and execution across our AI-powered autonomy and situational awareness platform. This is a high-ownership role at the intersection of customer engagement, product strategy, and technical execution, working directly with customers, operators, and engineering to translate operational needs into product requirements, roadmap decisions, and delivered capabilities. The ideal candidate brings strong product judgment, technical fluency, and the ability to bring clarity to complex inputs, make sound tradeoffs, and align product development with mission needs, customer commitments, and company objectives. Experience supporting military, government, or public safety customers is highly valued, and familiarity with AI-enabled products, secure operating environments, mission systems, and contract-driven requirements is a strong plus.
What You’ll Do
What We’re Looking For
5+ years of experience in product management, technical product management, systems engineering, or a similar cross-functional role.
Demonstrated success defining and delivering complex technical products in close partnership with engineering teams.
Proven ability to convert customer, stakeholder, and operational input into clear, engineering-ready product priorities.
Strong understanding of backlog management, roadmap planning, and Agile or similar product development processes.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting AI-enabled, data-driven, or software-intensive products.
Experience supporting defense, military, government, or public safety customers.
Familiarity with government contracting or contract-driven product requirements.
Experience with drones, robotics, autonomy, ISR, AI/ML, computer vision, video analytics, sensor fusion, or mission systems.
Experience working on products involving model-driven features such as detection, classification, tracking, prediction, or decision support.
Active U.S. security clearance, or eligibility to obtain one.
Experience supporting field operations, mission systems, or secure deployments.
Desired Attributes
Mission-focused and customer-oriented.
Technically fluent and comfortable working through product tradeoffs with engineering and AI teams.
Able to bring structure and clarity to complex or ambiguous inputs.
Strong judgment in balancing customer urgency, engineering capacity, model performance considerations, and long-term product direction.
Comfortable operating in an early and growth-stage environment.
Compensation
The expected base salary range for this role is $140,000–$160,000, plus company equity, with final compensation determined based on experience, qualifications, and alignment with the role’s requirements.
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Own product definition and prioritization for key platform capabilities across AI-enabled autonomy, aerial intelligence, situational awareness, and sensor-driven mission systems.
Work directly with customers, operators, internal stakeholders, and program teams to gather requirements and translate mission needs into product requirements and engineering execution.
Translate customer, operational, and contractual inputs into product specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, and engineering priorities.
Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring priorities align with customer commitments, technical feasibility, AI model and system constraints, and long-term platform strategy.
Drive roadmap and release planning in close partnership with engineering and leadership, balancing near-term delivery needs with long-term product scalability and platform intelligence.
Help define product direction for AI-assisted detection, classification, tracking, alerting, and decision-support capabilities across video, sensor, and operational data.
Support the full product lifecycle, from requirements definition through development, testing, deployment, performance evaluation, and iteration.
Work directly with defense, military, public safety, and government stakeholders to understand workflows, operational constraints, and mission requirements.
Lead product reviews, prioritization discussions, and execution follow-up across cross-functional teams.
Support demonstrations, pilot programs, field evaluations, and customer deployments, translating field feedback and operational outcomes into product improvements.
Develop and maintain clear product documentation, including requirements documents, workflows, feature definitions, release notes, and feature performance expectations.
Monitor customer needs, market developments, and competitive offerings to inform product direction and roadmap decisions, particularly in AI, autonomy, and mission software.
Ability to operate effectively across software, hardware, data, and operational workflows.
Strong product judgment and the ability to translate ambiguous requirements into clear product decisions.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Willingness to travel as needed to support customer meetings, demonstrations, field evaluations, and deployments.
Familiarity with secure operating environments and government mission workflows.
