Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager, Edge (SMM194)

As a Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager, AI, at Defense Unicorns, you will lead the market introduction and ongoing product marketing strategy for emerging AI products in the defense market. You will report to the Head of Product Marketing and work closely with Product, Engineering, Growth, and Executive leadership to bring new products to market.

This is an execution-heavy role with significant ownership across the product lifecycle. You will define positioning and messaging, establish the go-to-market foundation, develop technical content and demonstrations, enable Growth teams, and help shape how new capabilities are packaged, launched, adopted, and communicated. You will also serve as a trusted product expert and evangelist, ensuring our product narratives reflect real mission needs and responsible, secure, and practical applications of emerging technology.

7+ years of experience in technical product marketing, product management, solutions engineering, developer relations, or a related function

Significant experience owning technical go-to-market programs

Demonstrated experience launching a new technical product, platform, capability, or major feature

Experience introducing products without an established category, customer base, or messaging foundation

Strong working knowledge of artificial intelligence and machine learning concepts

Understanding of AI model deployment, governance, limitations, and risks

Deep understanding of modern software development and DevSecOps

Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, containers, APIs, and platform engineering

Strong technical and creative writing skills, making complex topics accessible to non-technical audiences

Exceptional interpersonal, presentation, and public-speaking skills

Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives

Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively in a remote work environment

Experience working with defense, national security, or federal government customers

Full compensation packages are based on candidate experience. Compensation ranges are established using national benchmarking data and apply across all geographic locations within the United States.

Remote - USA$142,375—$230,000 USD

Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges. We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation. Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user experience and optionality, without compromising security. Our team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market.

We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery. Defense Unicorns consolidates the best practices for security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation in order to meet the high security requirements valued by mission owners. Our solutions are agnostic by design and we believe that growing a robust ecosystem of secure, cloud-native software solutions can help enterprise customers inside and outside the federal market buy and integrate software more easily.

Defense Unicorns’ customers are mission-focused leaders across public and private enterprises. We proudly support defense and civil agencies across the U.S. government and we work closely with the creators of leading-edge software solutions to deliver value to the mission-owner by improving the security and consumability of commercial software products.

Kubernetes

Cloud Environments (AWS/GCP and Azure)

Infrastructure-as-code (like Terraform/Pulumi)

Continuous Delivery and automation tooling

GitOps

Containers

CNCF projects and open source products and packages

Helm/Kustomize-Value Stream Mapping

Building and improving security delivery

Building Kubernetes and cloud native applications

Medical/Dental/Vision

Premiums are 100% Company Paid

Health Savings Account

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401k Retirement Plan

Company Stock Options

Home Office Budget

We offer all full-time Unicorns Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus all Federal Holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s

Paid Parental Leave

Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions

Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)

Don’t have all the preferred experience or qualifications? Studies show that underrepresented groups like women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs if they don't meet every requirement listed.

At Defense Unicorns, we're committed to diversity. If you're enthusiastic about the role but don't match every criteria, we encourage you to apply. You could be the perfect fit for this or another role! Defense Unicorns is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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