Director of Product Management - Electronic Warfare (EW)

Company Overview
At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.
Department OverviewSilvus Technologies, a leading provider of advanced MANET and MIMO communications systems, is reshaping mesh network technology for mission-critical applications – on the ground, in the air and at sea. Its battle-proven StreamCaster family of MANET radios and proprietary MN-MIMO waveform provides the vital communications link for defense, law enforcement and public safety agencies around the world, and in the toughest operational environments.
Silvus Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola Solutions, Inc.
Job Description
Would you like to join an incredibly talented group of people, doing very challenging work, with the prime directive of “Keeping Our Heroes Connected”?
THE OPPORTUNITY
Silvus is seeking a Director of Product Management - Electronic Warfare (EW) who will report to the Director of Product Management on the Product team. The successful individual in this role will own the overall business performance, multi-year product strategy, and lifecycle execution of our EW, Sensing, and Distributed Effects portfolio.
This position is located at Silvus Technologies’ Engineering and R&D Office in Irvine, CA, near the vibrant Irvine Spectrum and is on a hybrid schedule: onsite, Monday through Thursday, at our Irvine office and Fridays are remote/work-from-home. Visits may be needed to Los Angeles HQ as needed to collaborate with the broader Engineering team and other teams.
This position is also eligible for 100% remote work depending on location for candidates based in the US, with a willingness to travel up to 25-50% of the time to Silvus office locations and customer meetings.
This role owns the “What & Why” (business view) of our EW & Sensing product family. You will lead and mentor a high-performing team of Technical Product Managers (TPMs) who drive the technical execution (“How & When”), engineering backlogs, and hardware/software New Product Introductions (NPI). You will bridge the commercial, tactical, and operational domains—partnering closely with DoD program offices, leadership, Sales, Business Development, Engineering, and Finance to translate defense operational requirements into profitable, scalable market offerings.
The following is a list of at least some of the current essential job functions of the position. Management may assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time at its discretion.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Product Line Strategy & 2-to-3 Year Roadmap
EW Portfolio Strategy: Define and drive the EW portfolio strategy across hardware and software components, software feature packaging, and user experience.
Multi-Year Roadmap Ownership: Direct and maintain the comprehensive 2-to-3-year product roadmap for all Silvus-developed EW products, embedded sensing applications, and integrated solutions across Silvus and the greater Motorola Solutions family.
Market & Program Positioning: Define differentiated product positioning that enables Silvus to win strategic EW & Sensing programs directly and through key platform, prime, and systems-integration partners.
Requirements & Concept Definition: Synthesize defense industry trends, emerging threats, and warfighter feedback into high-impact Market Requirements Documents (MRDs) and product charters.
Portfolio Investment Prioritization: Evaluate competing market opportunities, customer requirements, technology investments, and internal R&D initiatives. Recommend investment priorities based on strategic fit, market potential, competitive differentiation, platform leverage, engineering capacity, and expected return.
Business Performance & Business Case Execution
Business Performance: Own the business plan and performance of the EW & Sensing portfolio, including revenue, gross margin, adoption, competitive position, and lifecycle performance. Partner with Finance, Sales, Engineering, and Operations to identify and execute corrective actions when portfolio performance deviates from plan.
Margin Performance & Cost Targets: Own gross margin targets by collaborating with Operations, Supply Chain, and Engineering to set target Bill of Materials (BOM) costs, drive down manufacturing expenses, and execute cost-performance trade-offs.
Business Case Modeling: Author and present rigorous business cases—including 3-to-5 year hardware/software revenue projections, R&D return-on-investment (ROI), TAM/SAM calculations, and CapEx/OpEx justifications—for every new platform and major feature.
Software Monetization: Architect software licensing tiers, advanced feature monetization models, firmware upgrades, and recurring revenue packages for EW capabilities.
Post-Launch Performance Tracking: Measure post-launch portfolio performance relative to business plan, initiate corrective product actions or lifecycle sunset/EOL decisions as required.
Market Positioning, Competitive Intelligence & Go-To-Market Leadership
Go-To-Market Alignment: Partner with the Go-To-Market PM, Product Marketing, Applications Engineering, and Sales to build winning commercialization plans, competitive kill-sheets, pricing matrices, and sales enablement collateral.
Portfolio Positioning: Drive hardware and integrated solution positioning strategies to capture market share from legacy defense primes and out-innovate emerging tactical wireless competitors.
Competitive Intelligence: Develop and maintain a comprehensive, dynamic intelligence matrix detailing competitors, emerging threat vectors, EW/sensing technology developments, and adjacent defense market entry points.
People Leadership & Cross-Functional Orchestration
Lead & Mentor TPMs: Provide strategic direction, prioritization guidelines, and coaching to dedicated Technical Product Managers (TPMs) executing across tactical NPI, Jira backlogs, and engineering cadences (Sensing, and Integrated Solutions).
Requirements & Backlog Alignment: Translate customer insights into structured Market Requirements Documents (MRDs) and work with TPMs to ensure engineering priorities align with business strategy.
Portfolio-to-Product Translation: Partner with Product Managers to translate portfolio strategy and market requirements into clearly defined product initiatives, ensuring individual product development efforts remain aligned with the broader EW & Sensing strategy.
Partner & Acquisition Integration: Steer strategic inter-company roadmap alignment to deliver unified, turnkey EW sensing solutions.
Concept to Commercialization: Drive hardware and software products from prototype and concept stages into scalable, sellable, and operationally viable solutions.
Travel Requirements – Ability to travel 25-50% of the time to Silvus office locations and customer meetings.
Perform other related duties of which the above are representative.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, RF Engineering, or a highly related technical discipline.
Minimum of 13 years of professional experience, including 5+ years of progressive product management experience, with at least 2 years dedicated to Electronic Warfare (EW), tactical communications, or RF sensing.
Hands-on experience with Electronic Warfare (EW), passive sensing, signal collection (DF/AOA), spectrum monitoring, tactical ISR architectures, or electromagnetic waveform technologies.

Skills
Product Management, Jira, Business Development