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title: 'AI Product Manager, Public Sector at Sitreps'
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# AI Product Manager, Public Sector at Sitreps

- **Company:** Sitreps
- **Location:** Washington Dc OR San Francisco, CA
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sitrepsllc/jobs/4392930009

## Job description

AI Product Manager, Public Sector

Compensation: $147,000 – $185,000 base salary, plus equity, company benefits, and incentive compensation. Location: Washington, DC or San Francisco, CA. These are the only two locations under consideration. No other locations, and no fully remote option. Role Type: Full-Time Employee, Individual Contributor Work Model: Customer-facing product role, with regular on-site engagement and travel as needed Clearance: U.S. Citizenship required; active clearance preferred, eligibility and willingness to obtain one required

Client name withheld. Sitreps Talent is managing the search, and interested candidates apply through Sitreps.

## About the Client

Our client is a venture-backed AI security company. Their platform helps government and enterprise customers put AI systems into production safely: evaluating models and applications before deployment, protecting sensitive data and enforcing policy at runtime, governing what AI agents are allowed to do, and maintaining the evidence trail oversight bodies require. The platform runs across cloud, hybrid, on-prem, edge, and air-gapped environments. The team is standing up a dedicated public sector organization, and these are early seats on it.

## About the Role

Our client is looking for a Public Sector AI Product Manager to help shape their platform for high-consequence government and national security environments.

This role sits at the intersection of AI product strategy, customer discovery, technical execution, public sector mission needs, and go-to-market enablement. You will work directly with government stakeholders, mission users, technical evaluators, security teams, and the company's engineering, research, delivery, and growth teams to turn customer signal into product direction.

This is a hands-on, customer-facing product role. You will define product requirements, guide roadmap priorities, support pilots and deployments, analyze model and system behavior, and make sure investment translates into measurable customer and mission outcomes.

## Responsibilities

- Become deeply fluent in the company's evaluation, guardrail, and agent governance platform.
- Build deep relationships with public sector customers, mission users, technical evaluators, and executive stakeholders to understand operational needs, constraints, and success criteria.
- Translate customer signal into product strategy, business cases, roadmap priorities, PRDs, and measurable product requirements.
- Lead discovery, prototyping, and iteration for public sector use cases across AI evaluation, red-teaming, runtime controls, governance, observability, and agentic systems.
- Partner with engineering, research, design, delivery, and go-to-market teams to prioritize and ship capabilities that solve real customer problems.
- Analyze AI system behavior, evaluation results, datasets, failure modes, guardrail decisions, and customer workflows to refine product direction.
- Create customer-facing narratives, demos, product collateral, battle cards, and executive-ready materials that support adoption and market readiness.
- Track whether product investments are delivering measurable outcomes, including risk reduction, deployment acceleration, operational control, and mission value.

You Might Thrive in This Role If You

- Enjoy operating at the intersection of AI, product strategy, mission needs, technical execution, and customer outcomes.
- Have strong ownership instincts and are comfortable driving product direction through ambiguity.
- Communicate clearly with engineers, researchers, executives, technical evaluators, mission users, and go-to-market teams.
- Like spending time with customers directly, including on-site, to build a high-fidelity understanding of their workflows and constraints.
- Are comfortable turning messy feedback, prototype learnings, and field observations into clear product decisions.
- Think in terms of measurable outcomes, not just shipped features.
- Are excited to shape AI evaluation, runtime control, and agent governance products for high-stakes public sector environments.

## Requirements

## Preferred Qualifications

- 5+ years in product management, AI product strategy, technical program management, solutions, product engineering, strategy consulting, enterprise SaaS, or other customer-facing technical roles.
- Deep expertise in Generative AI and LLM systems, including model behavior, evaluation design, red-teaming, RAG/copilot architectures, prompt injection, guardrails, observability, and agentic workflows.
- Experience building, launching, or scaling technical products for enterprise, government, regulated, or mission-critical customers.
- Strong technical fluency across AI/ML systems, APIs, cloud environments, cybersecurity, data infrastructure, or deployment architectures.
- Ability to translate customer needs into product requirements, business cases, roadmap priorities, success metrics, and executive-ready narratives.
- Strong analytical skills, including comfort working with datasets, benchmark results, evaluation outputs, user feedback, and product telemetry.
- Excellent writing, presentation, prioritization, and cross-functional leadership skills.
- Willingness to travel regularly to customer sites.
- U.S. Citizenship required; active U.S. security clearance preferred, with eligibility and willingness to obtain one required.

## Nice to Have

- Experience supporting Department of War, IC, federal civilian, or other public sector customers.
- Familiarity with RMF, FedRAMP, IL environments, ATO processes, CMMC, or government software accreditation.
- Experience with AI evaluation, red-teaming, runtime guardrails, model observability, AI governance, or agentic AI systems in production environments.
- Familiarity with public sector acquisition pathways, including BAAs, OTAs, SBIR/STTR, IDIQs, production transition, or programs of record.
- Experience partnering with systems integrators, primes, federal channel partners, or public sector resellers.
- Prior experience at a defense-tech, AI, cybersecurity, cloud, or enterprise SaaS company.
- Active Secret, Top Secret, or TS/SCI clearance.

## About Sitreps

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sitreps is a veteran-founded recruiting agency and defense technology company that connects elite military talent with high-impact roles and builds software-driven maritime intelligence platforms for the U.S. Department of Defense.
- **Entity Type**: Private (startup stage; no public funding rounds disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Arlington, Virginia, USA (multiple job postings list Arlington, VA as primary location; also offices in New York City and Litchfield, VA)
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Kyle Eberly, Wyatt Frasier, Max Cormier (co-founders)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industries**: Defense Technology, Professional Services (Veteran Recruiting & Staffing), Software & Analytics
- **Target Customers**: U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and federal civilian agencies (B2G); defense-focused enterprises and technology companies (B2B) seeking veteran talent
- **Mission/Purpose**: Leveraging a deep-rooted community of military veterans to help world-class businesses scale, while also transforming commercial fleets into persistent sensing assets for national security.

## Products & Services
- **Sitreps Talent (Recruiting Agency)**: A curated recruiting service that sources, vets, and places high-performing military professionals into roles at partner companies. Serves 10+ industries including defense tech, software, AI, fintech, and private equity. Places roles such as product managers, account executives, engagement managers, and sales directors.
- **Maritime Intelligence Platform (Defense Tech Software)**: A next-generation software platform that transforms global commercial fleets into persistent sensing assets for the United States. Used by Navy strategic programs; includes analytics, data integration (SQL/Python/R), and implementation services.
- **AI & Agentic Solutions (Emerging)**: Design, prototype, and deploy scalable AI and agentic workflows for defense acquisition challenges, embedding with clients to productionize models.

## Market Standing
- **Valuuation / Funding**: Not publicly disclosed. The company appears to be privately funded (no public rounds recorded). A Head of Sales job description references growing revenue from ~$2M to $5M+ (with a path to $30M), suggesting current annual revenue in the low single-digit millions.
- **Key Metrics**: 150+ veterans placed, 40+ partner companies, 95% retention rate, serving 10+ industries (source: [sitreps.com/about/clients](https://www.sitreps.com/about/clients))
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not listed publicly. Partner companies are not named on the website, but the client portfolio includes defense tech, software, HVAC, real estate, AI, fintech, private equity.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Scaling sales team from ~$2M to $30M target
  - Active hiring for senior roles: VP of Engagement, Head of Intelligence, Chief Operating Officer, Forward Deployed Data Scientists
  - Expanding into AI/agentic solutions for defense acquisition
  - Multiple office locations and remote/hybrid work options

## Competitive Advantages
- **Authentic Veteran Community**: Sitreps began as a viral online community for veterans transitioning to business roles — now the “largest community of veterans in business in the USA,” providing unmatched access to, and credibility with, military talent.
- **Dual Capability**: Combines a staffing agency with in-house defense tech software development, allowing cross-pollination of talent insights and mission understanding.
- **High Retention**: 95% placement retention rate indicates strong matching and support processes.
- **Clearance and Domain Expertise**: Many roles require active security clearances and deep knowledge of naval strategic programs, DoD acquisition, and intelligence — creating a high barrier for competitors.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale Revenue**: Formalizing sales processes (CRM, commissions, segmentation) with a goal of growing from ~$2M to $5M+ in the near term and eventually $30M.
- **Productize Defense Tech**: Expand the maritime intelligence platform and AI/agentic solutions for broader DoD adoption.
- **Deepen Government Relationships**: Hiring Engagement Directors and Account Executives for each military branch (Air Force, Navy, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps).
- **Build Internal Infrastructure**: Transitioning from QuickBooks to an audit-ready ERP, adding financial controls and federal contract audit compliance.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: Directly support national security and veteran employment — two high-impact, purpose-rich areas.
- **Hybrid & Remote Flexibility**: Many roles offer remote options (U.S.-based); some positions require on-site presence in Arlington, VA, New York, or Litchfield, VA; a hybrid workspace is the norm.
- **Career Growth**: Early-stage company where leaders are expected to build functions from scratch and grow into C-level roles (e.g., Head of Sales → CRO path).
- **Diverse Roles**: Opportunities span professional services, engineering (forward deployed, data science), intelligence analysis, sales, and operations — appealing to both veterans and civilians.
- **Culture**: Described as “authentic, expertise-driven, and grounded in real connection” — not a typical corporate recruiter but a community-first organization.

## Sources
1. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/sitreps-llc) – Company overview, perks, culture, job listings
2. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sitrepsllc) – Official careers page with all current openings
3. [sitreps.com/about/team](https://www.sitreps.com/about/team) – Founders and team profiles
4. [sitreps.com/about/clients](https://www.sitreps.com/about/clients) – Client metrics, industries served, roles filled
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/sitreps-llc/jobs) – Detailed job descriptions (Head of Sales, Implementation Engineer, etc.)

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