Principal Product Manager
Summary
Principal Product Manager at Analog in Abu Dhabi leads product discovery, roadmap planning, and backlog quality across multiple delivery teams for the Hive digital-twin platform serving defense and government customers, translating operator and end-user needs into outcome-driven releases.
Analog is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead product discovery, roadmap development, and backlog quality for multiple delivery teams within a significant digital transformation program. You will be instrumental in translating operator and end-user needs into a prioritized set of releases, ensuring delivery teams focus on achieving outcomes rather than just output.
What You'll Do
- Discovery and Roadmap: Spearhead product discovery across multiple delivery teams, transforming operator and end-user needs into a clear, prioritized roadmap.
- Backlog Quality: Maintain high-quality backlogs across all teams, ensuring each item is well-defined, appropriately sized, and linked to measurable outcomes.
- Customer Validation: Conduct structured discovery sessions with customers and operators to validate assumptions before engineering resources are committed.
- Outcome Metrics: Define and track outcome metrics for each release, holding teams accountable for achieving results, not just task completion.
- Cross-Team Alignment: Harmonize roadmap priorities across multiple delivery teams, adeptly resolving trade-offs and sequencing decisions.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, design, and the principal solution architect to ensure scope is realistic and technically sound.
- Communication & Feedback: Represent the product roadmap to customers, partners, and leadership, and effectively translate feedback into actionable priorities.
- Go-to-Market Support: Provide clear release notes and positioning for new capabilities to support go-to-market and delivery teams.
- Experience: Possess substantial experience as a Senior or Principal Product Manager, with a proven track record of owning roadmaps and discovery across multiple teams.
- Outcome Focus: Demonstrate a history of translating end-user or operator needs into shipped products that deliver measurable outcomes.
- Accountability: Be comfortable holding delivery teams accountable for achieving outcomes, not merely delivering features.
- Complex Platforms: Have experience working with complex, multi-team platforms, ideally within defense, government, or other regulated sectors.
- Communication Skills: Exhibit strong facilitation and communication skills, effectively engaging with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Data-Informed Approach: Employ a structured, data-informed methodology for prioritization and roadmap decisions.
Analog builds Hive, a cutting-edge digital twin platform that connects physical environments with AI and sensors. Our solution empowers defense and government customers to monitor, simulate, train, and command across both real-world estates and synthetic environments. We are a dynamic, mission-driven team dedicated to projects at the forefront of national digital transformation, modern warfare, and advanced technology. Our work is impactful, and we approach it with the urgency it demands.
Logistics
- Role Type: Full-time
- Location: Abu Dhabi
- Department: Product Management
- Work Modality: On-site
- Reporting: Works closely with engineering, design, and delivery leadership.