Advanced Navigation is the world’s most determined innovator in AI robotics and navigation technologies across land, air, sea and space applications. Founded on a culture of research and discovery, Advanced Navigation's mission is to be the catalyst of the autonomy revolution. Fields of expertise include artificial intelligence, underwater sonar, GNSS, radio frequency systems, inertial sensors, robotics, quantum sensors and photonics. Today, Advanced Navigation is a supplier to some of the world's largest companies, including Airbus, Boeing, Google, Tesla, NASA, Apple, and General Motors.

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OVERVIEW OF ROLE

As a Product Manager at Advanced Navigation, you hold end-to-end accountability for the success of your product line. You are responsible for the commercial success and technical integrity of our product portfolio. This role requires a rare blend of high-level strategic thinking and the ability to "deep dive" into the daily engineering grind.

You will bridge the gap between market requirements and technical execution, leading trade-off discussions across Hardware, Firmware, and Software to deliver world-class PNT (Positioning, Navigation, and Timing) solutions.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Product ownership & strategy

- Drive commercial success: own the end-to-end P&L;, revenue growth, and market penetration strategy across our product portfolio.
- Market requirement definition: define and document high-fidelity market requirements based on rigorous technical discovery with key customers and industry trends in Advanced Navigation’s strategic industries.
- Roadmap leadership: architect and manage our product offerings, balancing New Product Introduction (NPI) with essential sustaining engineering.
- Portfolio optimization: analyze sales mix and competitive positioning to optimize product family pricing and profitability.

Engineering leadership & execution

- Lead Technical Trade-offs:



actively lead daily technical trade-off discussions with our engineering teams. You must be able to debate technical constraints with engineers to ensure the best product outcome.
- Stage-gate management: oversee the product lifecycle from initial concept through development, verification, launch, and end-of-life.
- Technical discovery: lead deep-dive technical discovery sessions with key customers and strategic partners to validate complex features and HW variants.
- Lifecycle oversight: work closely with Engineering and support to prioritize features and product improvements based on data-driven customer impact.

Organizational Integration

- Marketing partnership: collaborate with Marketing to provide the "technical core" for collateral, while delegating final production and distribution to the Marketing team.
- Growth & values: evolve with the organization by taking on strategic tasks as the product line expands and embody the company’s values through quantifiable performance targets.

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering (Aeronautical, Mechatronics, Electrical, Geomatics or similar technical field).
- Technical authority: proven ability to deep-dive into complex technical topics and build rapport/authority with highly specialized engineering teams.
- Strategic conflict resolution: skilled at negotiating constraints between different engineering disciplines (e.g., SW vs. HW limitations).
- Commercial acumen: solid understanding of PNT, market dynamics, pricing strategies, and P&L; management.
- Communication: ability to translate complex technical trade-offs into clear business impact for executive stakeholders.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in technical & commercial leadership role
- Engineering background: PNT, Geomatics, Inertial experience Hardware, Embedded Firmware, and Software development cycles.
- Domain expertise: proven experience working with Inertial Navigation (GNSS/INS) technologies.
- Industry context: experience in the defense industry using Assured PNT (Positioning, Navigation, and Timing) is highly desirable.

📌 Product Manager (Sydney)
🏢 Advanced Navigation
📍 Sydney