Principal Product Manager

STR
Company	STR
Category	Product
Location	Remote
Remote	Remote
Employment	Not stated
Level	Manager
Salary	Not stated by the employer
Posted	27 Jul 2026
Last verified	8 Aug 2026
Source	Employer ATS (greenhouse)
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Description
Principal&nbsp;Product&nbsp;Manager   &nbsp;  
    About the Team    &nbsp;  
   The Mission Applications (MA) Group within the AC2 Division creates outsized mission impact with our customers through specialized application and deployment of STR technology.&nbsp;  Staff within the MA group have a deep understanding of missions and technology needs for national security with skills targeting transition of technology to operational use, including product management, UX Product implementation, software integration &amp; mission engineering, platform engineering,&nbsp;  D  ev  O  ps, and program management.  &nbsp;MA staff combine with other science and engineering staff from the various STR research and development groups to form dedicated product teams focused on accelerating the operational transition of&nbsp;  cutting-edge  &nbsp;software technologies.   &nbsp;  
 &nbsp;   The Role:   &nbsp;  
  &nbsp;  As&nbsp;a&nbsp;Principal&nbsp;Product&nbsp;Manager&nbsp;in the&nbsp;MA Group,&nbsp;you are&nbsp;a leader who&nbsp;is passionate about&nbsp;collaborating&nbsp;with high-performance teams&nbsp;to&nbsp;solve&nbsp;unique&nbsp;national security&nbsp;challenges with novel technologies.&nbsp;The&nbsp;Principal&nbsp;Product&nbsp;Manager&nbsp;is&nbsp;accountable for the ultimate success&nbsp;of&nbsp;the product&nbsp;and&nbsp;is responsible for&nbsp;ensuring&nbsp;that&nbsp;what&nbsp;is&nbsp;developed&nbsp;and delivered to customers is&nbsp;operationally valuable.&nbsp;The key&nbsp;capabilities&nbsp;of the&nbsp;Principal&nbsp;Product&nbsp;Manager&nbsp;are: 1)&nbsp;expertise&nbsp;on the customer’s&nbsp;challenges, desires,&nbsp;workflows, and&nbsp;acquisition processes, 2) expertise on the&nbsp;product and&nbsp;the leveraged&nbsp;technologies,&nbsp;3)&nbsp;understanding of&nbsp;STR’s&nbsp;business and the role the product plays,&nbsp;and 4)&nbsp;deep knowledge of the market&nbsp;and&nbsp;industry, including&nbsp;trends, customer expectations and competition.&nbsp;  &nbsp;  
  &nbsp;  
  The&nbsp;Principal&nbsp;Product&nbsp;Manager&nbsp;role requires creativity and strong&nbsp;intellectual&nbsp;curiosity&nbsp;in&nbsp;applying&nbsp;new technologies&nbsp;to solve customer problems. Because the technologies we bring to market often represent the&nbsp;state of the art&nbsp;and may involve process changes,&nbsp;additional&nbsp;key skills for the&nbsp;Principal&nbsp;Product Manager include persistence and&nbsp;strong&nbsp;communication&nbsp;to drive&nbsp;cross-functional&nbsp;collaboration.&nbsp;Finally,&nbsp;the&nbsp;Principal&nbsp;Product Manager&nbsp;plays a key role in&nbsp;developing&nbsp;business strategy, business development, and growing the team.  &nbsp;  
  &nbsp;   What&nbsp;You&nbsp;Will&nbsp;Do:&nbsp;   &nbsp;  
 
  Engage directly with&nbsp;executive leaders,&nbsp;end users,&nbsp;build strong customer relationships,&nbsp;and&nbsp;constantly&nbsp;seek&nbsp;to apply&nbsp;new technology&nbsp;to solve real customer problems  &nbsp;  
 
  Empower the&nbsp;designers, engineers, and scientists&nbsp;to act with a meaningful degree of autonomy by developing and clearly communicating a unifying product vision and strategy  &nbsp;  
 
  Understand&nbsp;all stakeholders, the constraints in which those stakeholders&nbsp;operate, and&nbsp;create&nbsp;customer&nbsp;solutions&nbsp;that work&nbsp;within the constraints of the business  &nbsp;  
 
  Foster team collaboration to embrace the give and take between&nbsp;software functionality, user experience, and enabling technology  &nbsp;  
 
  Continuously&nbsp;improve the&nbsp;product&nbsp;discovery&nbsp;process&nbsp;to&nbsp;establish&nbsp;compelling value and&nbsp;identify&nbsp;key risks  &nbsp;  
 
  Hold&nbsp;high-integrity commitments&nbsp;to deliver&nbsp;viable&nbsp;solutions that work for the customer&nbsp;and&nbsp;business  &nbsp;  
 
  Work&nbsp;in a fast-paced&nbsp;environment to enable successful contract execution  &nbsp;  
 
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