Product Owner

Epirus designs and builds cutting-edge, high-powered microwave (HPM) systems that have the ability to transform industries. With a successful foothold in the defense industry, where we invented directed energy weapon systems that surpass current capabilities, we’re creating new possibilities for intelligently-driven power products in commercial markets.

Job objective: This is an exciting role in a growing company. The ideal candidate for the position is someone who has experience taking a technical product from concept to launch. A combination of technical prowess, strong project execution, and excellent people management skills will make a candidate successful.

Duties

• Responsible for planning product roadmap, innovation, and development for complex systems
• Partner with stakeholders and customers across the organization to inform the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization
• Translate customer feedback and roadmap features into well-defined, testable, requirements that guide the engineering team
• Work in an Agile environment and continuously reviews the business needs, refines priorities, outlines milestones and deliverables, identifies opportunities and risks, and oversees mitigation efforts
• Lead a multi-discipline team of engineers to develop a product
• Work with Marketing and Business Development to bring the product to market
• Coordinate the transition from prototype to production to enable efficient manufacturing
• Ensure company leadership is aware of product status and needs
• Hire any necessary skill sets to maximize technical edge of Epirus products
• Willingness to learn about all aspects of the system

Required Qualifications

• Balance of technical skills and business acumen
• Organized; comfortable working in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
• BS degree in an Engineering or Scientific field
• 5+ years of experience in product/project management, Systems Engineering, or related
• US Citizen and/or Permanent Resident (future security clearance may be required)

Desired Qualifications

• Track record delivering complex electro mechanical systems to production
• Expertise in developing product development plans including driving continuous improvement in product development practices
• MS degree in an Engineering or Scientific field

Epirus was the magical bow with infinite arrows wielded by the Greek hero Theseus. Like our namesake, we strive to be fast, efficient, and limitless in our approach. This agility, combined with a culture of innovation in systems development, allows us to move quickly without losing the decades of lessons learned.

We have developed technologies that leverage new breakthroughs in sensors and high-power microwaves, combined with computer vision and advanced software control. Our first broad-market application is a comprehensive defense system to defeat offensive drones at scale.