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# Product Marketing Manager at Auterion

- **Company:** Auterion
- **Location:** Arlington, VA
- **Posted:** 2026-07-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://auterion.com/company/careers-open-position/8655231002?gh_jid=8655231002

## Job description

Auterion is seeking a Product Marketing Manager to translate complex autonomy, robotics, and defense technology into clear, market-facing messaging, sales enablement, web content, and campaign materials.

This role partners closely with product, engineering, business development, and marketing to develop technically accurate, customer-focused content for defense and global markets. The ideal candidate has experience marketing defense, aerospace, or other highly technical products and can simplify complex technologies into compelling narratives that resonate with military, government, and commercial audiences. You will play a key role in communicating what Auterion builds, why it matters, and how it delivers mission-critical capabilities in real-world environments.

## Responsibilities and Duties

- Develop product positioning, messaging, and use-case narratives for Auterion's autonomy and robotics solutions.
- Partner with product, engineering, and business development teams to translate technical capabilities into compelling customer-facing marketing materials.
- Create content for websites, landing pages, sales enablement, campaigns, presentations, one-pagers, events, and product launches.
- Build use-case narratives that connect product capabilities to customer needs, operational environments, and mission outcomes.
- Support customer-facing teams with clear sales materials, competitive positioning, and value messaging.
- Adapt messaging for different defense audiences, geographic markets, and stages of the customer journey.
- Support product launches, announcements, demonstrations, campaigns, and field events with messaging, collateral, and web updates.
- Collaborate with design, social media, video, PR, and events teams to develop polished, high-impact marketing assets.
- Maintain consistency across all product messaging while ensuring technical accuracy and alignment with company strategy.

## Qualifications and Skills

- 4–7 years of experience in product marketing, technical marketing, solutions marketing, sales enablement, or a related role.
- Experience marketing products or technologies within the defense, aerospace, national security, or government sectors is required.
- Experience marketing complex technical products in B2B and/or B2G environments.
- Strong writing, editing, and communication skills, with the ability to simplify technical concepts for a range of audiences.
- Experience partnering with product, engineering, sales, and business development teams to create accurate and effective marketing content.
- Strong understanding of product positioning, messaging, sales enablement, use-case development, and product launches.
- Experience creating product web pages, landing pages, sales presentations, one-pagers, campaign copy, and other customer-facing marketing assets.
- Familiarity with defense procurement, military end users, or government buying processes is highly preferred.
- Comfortable working across global markets and adapting messaging for regional audiences.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Proficiency with Google Workspace and modern collaborative marketing tools.
- Experience managing external agencies, designers, video production teams, or PR partners.
- Writing or product marketing portfolio samples required.
- US Citizenship required, with eligibility to obtain clearances.

Salary Range: $120,000 - $150,000

## Benefits

- Flexible working hours
- Stock Options
- Unlimited PTO
- Health Insurance (includes dental & vision)
- Medical flex spending
- Life Insurance
- Retirement Plan - 401k with company match
- Enhanced maternity & paternity leave

## About Auterion

We are building the leading software platform for AI-powered autonomous systems for enterprise and government customers. Our technology is deployed in real-world defense environments and supports missions where reliability, interoperability, and rapid iteration matter most.

At Auterion, we bring together the sharpest minds who love to solve the hardest problems. Join a vibrant team built on innovation, openness, and excellence, where you’ll be empowered to develop ideas, collaborate across all levels, and make an impact that matters.

## About Auterion

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Auterion provides an open operating system and software platform that connects, controls, and orchestrates fleets of autonomous drones and robots for defense, industrial, and civil missions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Corporate Minority funding stage; total raised $140M)
- **Headquarters**: Arlington, Virginia, United States (with offices in Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada, and Rwanda)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Lorenz Meier (Co-Founder & CEO) and Markus Achtelik (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Defense & government, public safety, energy (oil & gas, utilities), infrastructure & construction, agriculture, inspection.
- **Target customers**: B2B, Government/Defense (U.S. and allied nations), drone manufacturers, large enterprise fleets.
- **Mission**: "Accelerating global adoption of autonomous robotics" by creating the connected operating system for the next evolution in computing. [auterion.com](https://auterion.com/company/)

## Products & Services
- **Auterion Mission Control** – A single application to plan, execute, and monitor drone operations across a global fleet; provides live situational awareness, cloud-based analytics, and standardized mission workflows. [auterion.com](https://auterion.com/)
- **AuterionOS** – The vendor-independent operating system for autonomous robots, built on open standards (PX4 open source), enabling continuous deployment of apps, automation of complex workflows, and consistent user experience across heterogeneous vehicles. [auterion.com](https://auterion.com/)
- **Skynode X** – Integrated compute and autopilot hardware that runs mission planning, real-time video, fleet operations, predictive maintenance, and cloud connectivity. Over 100,000 units under contract. [auterion.com](https://auterion.com/)
- **Long Range One Way Attack** – A defense-specific capability delivering precision effects at distances up to 1,000 miles, using Auterion’s software-defined autonomy stack. [auterion.com](https://auterion.com/)
- **Government Services** – NDAA-compliant, trusted systems for U.S. and allied government use, including cargo, surveillance, and swarm operations.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company).
- **Key Metrics**: Total funding $140M; estimated annual revenue $100M; headcount of 150 employees (+61.1% YoY); over 100,000 Skynode units under contract. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/auterion) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/auterion)
- **Notable Investors**: Rheinmetall (strategic), Lakestar, Mosaic Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, and eight others. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/auterion)
- **Growth Signals**: Nominated by the U.S. Government as the standard for its future drone program; achieved first global combat drone swarm live-fire test (single operator striking three targets simultaneously); 462.5% YoY increase in job postings; expansion into UK defense (GM UK Defense) and EU defense. [auterion.com](https://auterion.com/company/) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/auterion)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-source foundation**: Built on the PX4 autopilot and Dronecode ecosystem, giving customers vendor independence and continuous innovation.
- **Government standard**: Designated by the U.S. Government as the standard for its future drone program – a powerful moat in defense procurement.
- **Scale of deployment**: Over 100,000 Skynode units under contract, orders of magnitude ahead of competitors.
- **Proven in combat**: Live-fire swarm tests with the U.S. military demonstrate real-world tactical effectiveness.

## Strategic Focus
- **Defense and swarm operations**: Scaling long-range one-way attack and coordinated swarm capabilities for allied nations (U.K., EU, Indo-Pacific).
- **Ecosystem expansion**: Transitioning from single-drone ops to network-centric, multi-domain autonomy across air, land, and sea.
- **Commercial verticals**: Continued investment in inspection, energy, agriculture, and public safety use cases.
- **International growth**: Building local teams and partnerships in Europe, Canada, and Rwanda.

## Why Work Here
- **Impactful mission**: Build systems that deploy directly to military and industrial field operations – “build swarms, not drones.” [auterion.com/careers](https://auterion.com/company/careers/)
- **Engineering culture**: Ship code that reaches the field in weeks; decisions made quickly with clear ownership; emphasis on speed and execution over bureaucracy.
- **Values**: “Be bold and audacious,” “Own the outcome,” “Finish the race,” “Team over players,” “Keep moving forward.” [auterion.com/careers](https://auterion.com/company/careers/)
- **Growth opportunities**: 45 active job openings with strong hiring trend (+462.5% YoY); roles range from software engineering to GNC, systems engineering, deployment, and factory operations. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/auterion)
- **International experience**: Transatlantic travel opportunities; work across U.S., Switzerland, Germany, UK, Canada, and Rwanda.
- **No degree obsession**: “We value performance and merit, not just degrees.” [auterion.com/careers](https://auterion.com/company/careers/)

## Sources
1. [auterion.com – Company & About](https://auterion.com/company/)
2. [auterion.com – Careers](https://auterion.com/company/careers/)
3. [cbinsights.com – Auterion Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/auterion)
4. [linkedin.com – Auterion Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/auterion)

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