OVERVIEW OF ROLE 

As an Associate Product Manager, you will bridge the gap between complex hardware/software engineering capabilities and market demands. You will be responsible for translating field-testing, usage data, and market dynamics into actionable insights that supports our Senior Product Managers throughout the navigation product lifecycle. This is a high-impact role requiring deep data literacy, product discovery frameworks, and the ability to thrive in a deep-tech engineering environment. You will work closely with the Product Team in implementing key product decisions.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES 

1. Product Data Analytics & Insights

Own the end-to-end data pipelines for product performance, analytics, and customer usage behavior.

Support Product in providing data driven analytics from marketing channels.

2. Product Discovery & Strategy Support

Partner with Senior Product Managers to lead product discovery phases using data-backed hypotheses and design thinking frameworks.

Assist in modelling ROI and conduct financial/strategic planning for new product updates, evaluating target commercial opportunities globally.

Perform competitive intelligence and market fit analysis within defense and commercial applications.

3. Cross-Functional Collaboration

Support in unifying Product & Tech, Engineering, Sales, Customer Support and Marketing

Synthesize raw technical field-testing data and customer support escalations into prioritized feature requests for engineering teams.

Collate and support in the prioritization of engineering tasks.

4. Ownership & Continuous Improvement

Drive accountability by establishing robust data-governance standards for how the product team measures success.

Champion a "Progress over Perfection" mentality by delivering rapid prototypes of dashboards and insights, iteratively refining them alongside product shifts.

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS 

• Bachelor’s degree in a highly quantitative or technical field (e.g., Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or Computer Science).
• 3+ years of experience in a technical role, preferably within a deep tech, robotics or high-reliability manufacturing organization.
• Comfortable working around highly technical product concepts, such as Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs), GNSS, robotics, sensor fusion, or acoustics.
• Strong grasp of Agile methodologies and modern product management frameworks.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills; able to explain complex statistical models to non-technical stakeholders and vice versa.
• A curious mindset with an intrinsic drive to learn complex technical frameworks quickly.
• Exceptional attention to detail combined with a bias for action and decisive problem-solving.

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. Discover it for yourself: https://youtu.be/F7uAqs1gtuk