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Expeditionary Product Owner

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Zero-to-One mindset: Proven track record of turning ambiguous concepts into functional, revenue-generating products or operations.
  • Complex lifecycle management: Experience managing high-stakes projects with moving physical parts such as hardware, logistics, or specialized construction.
  • Operational grit: Comfortable presenting multi-year roadmaps in a boardroom and troubleshooting deployments on site; startup or early-stage experience is a plus.
  • Cross-functional leadership: Ability to lead and influence designers, engineers, and operators without direct authority, fostering extreme ownership.

Requirements:

  • Own the Mobile Vision: Lead end-to-end strategy and execution for mobile SCIFs, expeditionary kits, and classified event environments, ensuring they are aesthetically compelling and secure.
  • Incubate the Unknown: Serve as the primary PM for nascent business lines, turning edge case opportunities into playbooks, hardware specs, and service models.
  • Productize Expeditionary Services: Standardize the Nooks Experience for off-site environments, ensuring interface, branding, and security posture are world-class and consistent.
  • Cross-Functional Orchestration: Bridge Growth, Ops, Finance, HR, and Digital Product to integrate expeditionary offerings into the broader Nooks ecosystem.

Job description

ABOUT NOOKS

Are you seeking an exciting and unique opportunity to grow and support our national security? As a startup, we are offering a limited-time opportunity to be an equity owner in a pioneering new industry. Nooks is pioneering Classified Infrastructure-as-a-Service (CIaaS) to provide government and industry partners with the fastest, most efficient access to classified infrastructure. We are building a nationwide network of accredited classified spaces and systems, ensuring that the best technologies equip our nation’s warfighters. At Nooks, we value innovation, collaboration, and a service-first mindset.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Expeditionary Product Owner is the vanguard of Nooks’ product expansion. You are the lead Product Manager (PM) for every instance where we "go to the customer." From scaling our Mobile SCIF fleet to executing high-stakes classified conferences and incubating nascent, "v1" business lines, you manage the products that don't fit into a permanent floor plan. You thrive in the "we don’t know what this is yet" phase, forming clarity from ambiguity and high-level opportunities into repeatable, elite, and secure operational realities.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Own the "Mobile" Vision: Lead the end-to-end strategy and execution for Mobile SCIFs, expeditionary kits, and classified event environments, ensuring they are as aesthetically compelling as they are operationally secure.
  • Incubate the Unknown: Act as the primary PM for nascent business lines. You will take "edge case" opportunities and build the playbooks, hardware specs, and service models required to turn them into core offerings.
  • Productize Expeditionary Services: Standardize the "Nooks Experience" for off-site environments. Ensure that whether a customer is in a permanent hub or a mobile unit at a remote site, the interface, branding, and security posture are world-class and consistent.
  • Cross-Functional Orchestration: Bridge the gap between Growth, Ops, Finance, and HR, and Digital Product to ensure our expeditionary products are integrated into the broader Nooks ecosystem.
  • Market Navigation & Pricing: Define pricing models and market segmentation for non-traditional space usage (e.g., short-term classified surge capacity, mobile deployments, and high-security event hosting).
  • Rigorous Product Discipline: Apply classic PM frameworks—roadmapping, ruthless prioritization, and KPI tracking—to the messy world of physical deployments and logistical constraints.
  • Executive Translation: Serve as the internal champion for the Expeditionary arm, articulating the return on investment, strategic trade-offs, and mission impact of our mobile and nascent products to executive leadership.

THE SKILLSET: 

  • The "Zero-to-One" Mindset: Proven track record of taking ambiguous concepts and building them into functional, revenue-generating products or operations.
  • Complex Lifecycle Management: Extensive experience managing high-stakes projects with moving physical parts (e.g., hardware, logistics, or specialized construction).
  • Operational Grit: You are as comfortable in a boardroom presenting a 3-year roadmap as you are on-site troubleshooting a deployment; bonus points given for prior startup or early-stage company experience.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Ability to lead and influence teams of designers, engineers, and operators without direct authority, fostering a culture of extreme ownership.
  • Strategic Agility: Proven excellence in Product Management or a related strategic field (e.g., technical project management).
  • Financial Acumen: Strong command of unit economics and capital allocation; adept at balancing the financial rigor of hardware/logistics lifecycles with the bottom-line impact of long-term product roadmaps.


ELIGIBILITY
You must be eligible to work in the U.S. and have the ability to obtain and maintain clearance eligibility.

Salary Range for all departments

Salary Range
$165,000$189,000 USD

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