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Director of Product, Core

AIR Corp · Arlington, Virginia, United States · On-site

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About AIR Corp

Discover the future of infrastructure inspections with AIR Corp. Backed by SOSV.

About the role

Set platform strategy that drives readiness and the business Recruit and develop a team of product managers, raising the bar for product quality and growing each person. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • U.S. Citizenship is required
  • A track record of owning a product line or platform end to end - strategy through delivery - and the business outcomes it drove, such as adoption, revenue, or cost-to-serve
  • Portfolio-level thinking at the scale of a business: making trade-offs across teams and reframing problems so the whole is more coherent than the sum of its parts
  • Fluency in platform and backend systems concepts - authorization models (e.g., ABAC), data schemas, service contracts, and distributed-system tradeoffs - enough to shape architecture decisions with engineering
  • Hands-on fluency with AI products, including the tradeoffs between deterministic and agentic systems and how they fail
  • Experience leading and growing product managers
More about this role

Air is the leader in Enterprise Readiness. Our mission is to establish readiness as a real-time condition that is continuously achieved. Today, a dangerous Readiness Gap exists between what the front line needs and what is delivered. Our AI-native platform, Air Enterprise Readiness, aligns development, production, delivery, and sustainment into one coordinated execution system for government agencies and industrial suppliers. By revealing true capacity, exposing real constraints, coordinating resources, and executing at the speed of operational demands, the front line gets what it needs to succeed.

Air's customers run programs where one late part can hold up an entire fleet — and every mission team at Air depends on the same foundation to see it coming: the data, the connections across organizations, and the reusable workflows that turn raw signal into a decision. The Core Platform is that foundation. The challenge is deciding what it must become so that every solution built on it reaches the field faster, costs less to stand up, and compounds in value as more of the mission runs on Air.

As Director of Product for the Core Platform, reporting to the SVP of Product, you own the...

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