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# Technical Product Manager at Swarm Aero

- **Company:** Swarm Aero
- **Location:** Remote
- **Compensation:** $170k–$220k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-30
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/swarmaero/1eed50d2-daed-4551-a085-b9a2fe93dc3e

## Job description

Swarm Aero is redefining air power, building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network in the world. The company is moving quickly to launch the first aircraft designed specifically for swarming, as well as the Command & Control software to mobilize swarms of thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets and empower human operators to achieve superhuman results. The team has created and exited multiple startups, negotiated defense deals worth billions of dollars, and designed and built 30+ novel aircraft, with aerospace experience from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic.

Mission Turn operational needs, customer feedback, and product direction into clear product specifications—and then drive those capabilities through decisions, design, development, and validation. You will work directly with the Head of Product on Legion and become a core contributor to both defining the product and running the process around it.

## What You’ll Own

- Create clear, detailed product specifications for new features and capabilities.
- Take customer needs, operator feedback, technical constraints, and product direction and turn them into actionable product requirements.
- Own bounded features from early definition through design, development, feedback, and validation.
- Work directly with Product Design to translate specifications into detailed workflows and Figma designs.
- Review designs and implementations against product intent and requirements.
- Facilitate product discussions with government customers, third-party contractors, operators, engineers, and internal stakeholders.
- Prepare agendas and clearly identify topics requiring feedback, decisions, or alignment.
- Capture decisions, unresolved issues, customer feedback, and action items.
- Incorporate meeting outcomes directly into product specifications and related artifacts.
- Maintain feature status, decision history, feedback registers, and key product commitments.
- Identify ambiguity, conflicting requirements, and missing decisions before they slow the team down.
- Track important product and contractual deliverables.
- Help prepare product reviews, demonstrations, and customer discussions.
- Create enough structure to keep the organization aligned without introducing unnecessary process.

What Great Looks Like You are given a problem such as: “Operators need a better way to understand and respond to vehicle health issues during degraded communications.” You meet with the relevant operators, engineers, customers, and stakeholders. You understand the underlying problem. You separate customer requests from actual product requirements. You identify edge cases and unresolved decisions. You write a product specification that clearly explains the intended behavior, workflows, system states, requirements, and open questions. You work with Product Design to turn that specification into a strong interface. You incorporate feedback, resolve ambiguity, and keep the feature moving until the capability works as intended. The Head of Product provides direction and reviews the most important decisions—but does not need to personally produce every artifact or manage every follow-up.

Early Expectations Within the first few weeks, you should begin contributing directly to product specifications. Initially, you may draft sections of specifications or own smaller, well-bounded capabilities with guidance from the Head of Product. As your understanding of Legion, its operators, and the technical architecture grows, you will rapidly take ownership of larger features. We are not looking for someone who spends six months observing before contributing.

The Person We’re Looking For You are an excellent writer. You can take a complicated conversation and turn it into a clear product definition. You have strong product judgment and are comfortable making reasonable decisions when requirements are incomplete. You understand that a customer request is not automatically a product requirement. You are technically curious and capable of participating meaningfully in discussions with software engineers, systems engineers, operators, and external partners. You naturally ask questions like:

- What problem are we actually trying to solve?
- Who needs this capability?
- What should happen in this edge case?
- What does the operator see?
- What state is the system actually in?
- How will we know this works?
- Is this a product decision, an engineering decision, or a customer preference?
- You are highly organized, but organization is a means to an end.
- Your real job is creating clarity and moving product decisions forward.

Particularly Valuable Experience Experience with any of the following would be especially valuable:

- Technical product management
- Complex B2B software
- Command-and-control systems
- Aerospace or defense
- Robotics or autonomous systems
- Mission planning
- Geospatial software
- Systems engineering
- Government programs
- Operational testing
- Requirements development

What This Role Is Not This is not a project coordinator role. It is not a Scrum Master role. It is not an administrative Product Operations position. It is not someone whose primary contribution is scheduling meetings, maintaining Jira, or writing meeting minutes. Those activities may occasionally be necessary, but they are secondary. The primary contribution is: understanding product problems and defining excellent solutions.

Success After 90 Days

- You are independently drafting product specifications for bounded Legion features.
- Customer and operator feedback is consistently translated into clear product requirements.
- Product meetings result in updated specifications, decisions, and actionable follow-up.
- The Head of Product can delegate meaningful feature-definition work to you.
- Product Design receives clearer inputs and can move faster.
- Important product decisions and rationale are documented and traceable.

ITAR requirement To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Swarm Aero is an equal opportunity employer. We value diverse backgrounds and experiences and make employment decisions without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, or disability.

## What We Offer

- Meaningful equity in a high-growth defense technology company
- Competitive base salary commensurate with experience
- Medical, dental, vision, and 401k
- PTO and paid sick leave
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Daily catered lunch (office)
- Paid parental leave
- Direct impact on a critical national security mission
- A world-class team of engineers and operators solving genuinely hard problems

## About Swarm Aero

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Swarm Aero builds large, swarming uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) for defense, logistics, disaster response, and sensing missions, controlled by a proprietary mission-level autonomy platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private startup (Series A, $35M raised in March 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Oxnard, California, USA (with a manufacturing facility in Fayetteville, Arkansas)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Danny Goodman (CEO), Oliver Palmer (COO), Peter Kalogiannis (Co-Founder & Chief Engineer, departed April 2026)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Defense & aerospace, UAV swarm systems, advanced manufacturing
- **Target customers**: Government/military (B2G) – specifically U.S. Department of Defense and allied forces; also logistics, disaster response, and environmental monitoring agencies
- **Mission statement**: “Building the largest UAV swarm on the planet.” (LinkedIn tagline)

## Products & Services
- **Swarm-Scale Command & Control (C2) Platform**: Browser-based, platform-agnostic UI that enables small teams to coordinate thousands of uncrewed vehicles in communications-limited, contested environments.
- **Universal Swarm Node (UAV)**: A Group 5 drone designed from the ground up for swarming – not expendable (like a Switchblade) nor exquisite (like an F-35), but recoverable and mass-producible.
- **Mission-Level Autonomy Software**: Translates user intent into vehicle-level behaviors that update in real-time as the swarm detects changing conditions; includes collaborative autonomy for superhuman agility.
- **Manufacturing as a Feature**: High-rate composite manufacturing processes adapted from other industries to achieve unprecedented airframe throughput (targeting 1,000+ units per year).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $35M (Series A closed March 2026; prior $2M pre-seed in 2022 and $22M seed in 2023)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Two Sigma Ventures, Silent Ventures (co-leads Series A), Construct Capital, Alumni Ventures, Founders Fund
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 50 employees as of mid-2026 (+94.6% YoY)
  - Opened a manufacturing facility in Fayetteville, Arkansas in early 2026
  - Plans to more than double headcount by end of 2026 (per Axios)
  - First flight of the Group 5 drone expected within two years

## Competitive Advantages
- **Team expertise**: Leadership collectively has 100+ years of uniformed U.S. military service, built 30+ novel aircraft, and contributed to the highest production rate composite aircraft and rocket engines ever.
- **Manufacturing moat**: Concurrent design of factory and aircraft enables rapid scaling from prototype to 1,000+ units; “two-thirds of the cost of building a new aircraft is generally headcount” – Swarm designs for low-cost, high-rate production.
- **Software-defined swarm**: Browser-based C2 and edge-compute sensor mesh bring cloud-like agility to contested environments, allowing small teams to control massive swarms.
- **Differentiation**: Neither expendable (like loitering munitions) nor exquisite (like stealth bombers) – a recoverable, affordable mass that overmatches adversaries through numbers.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale manufacturing**: The new Arkansas facility is central to achieving high-rate composite production and reducing unit cost.
- **Headcount growth**: Aggressive hiring across engineering, manufacturing, and operations; 20 active job postings as of mid-2026.
- **First flight milestone**: Complete design, build, and test of the Group 5 drone within the next two years to enter operational service.
- **Multi-domain expansion**: Plans to deploy a combination of air, sea, and ground assets tailored to diverse missions (cargo, fire suppression, adaptive sensing, resilient communications).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Move Fast and Make Things” – a startup ethos focused on rapid design-build-test cycles and real-world impact in defense tech.
- **Work environment**: Likely on-site given manufacturing and hardware focus; offices in Oxnard, CA (HQ) and Fayetteville, AR (factory).
- **Team**: Work alongside veterans of Scaled Composites, Anduril, Northrop Grumman, and leaders who have built five billion-dollar startups and software with 4.6B combined active users.
- **Perks**: Not publicly detailed, but typical for well-funded defense startups (competitive compensation, equity, mission-driven work). The company uses modern tools (Kubernetes, Docker, Python, MATLAB, etc.) and offers roles from engineering to program management.
- **Growth opportunity**: Early-stage company with strong funding and a clear path to scale – employees can have outsized impact on product and manufacturing processes.

## Sources
1. [Swarm Aero Website](https://www.swarm.aero/)
2. [Swarm Aero LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/swarm-aero)
3. [Craft.co Company Profile](https://craft.co/swarm-aero)
4. [Axios – Exclusive: Big-drone builder Swarm Aero raises $35 million](https://www.axios.com/2026/03/11/swarm-aero-seriesa-drone-factory)
5. [Swarm Aero Team Page](https://www.swarm.aero/team-2)

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