Type: Direct hire, full-time · Base: $112,000–$149,000 + equity · Clearance: Must be eligible for a U.S. Secret clearance · Travel: Required
VDS is recruiting a Product Operations Manager to keep a fleet of autonomous underwater and maritime systems ready for the mission. You will lead the team that responds when fielded systems fail and turn those lessons into engineering fixes.
What you'll do
- Lead the incident-response team for deployed maritime systems.
- Turn field failures into clear design-change requests for engineering.
- Use fleet health data to spot failures before they happen.
- Serve as the link between engineering, business development and naval end users.
- Standardize sustainment and support processes across the fleet.
What you bring
- 6+ years supporting complex technical systems, including team leadership.
- A technical bachelor's degree, or equivalent military, maritime or industrial experience.
- Comfort working from logs, dashboards and support tickets to a root cause.
Nice to have
- Unmanned underwater vehicle or munitions deployment experience, or a naval background.
- Linux, Grafana, Jira, Git, and SQL or Palantir Foundry.
Type: Direct hire, full-time · Base: $113,000–$149,000 + equity · Clearance: Must be eligible for a U.S. Secret clearance (active clearance a plus) · Travel: Field travel required
VDS is recruiting a Product Operations Manager to keep fielded defense systems available across several product lines. The role spans autonomy software, networking and hardware integration, and you will be the person who finds out why something broke.
What you'll do
- Keep deployed systems mission-ready and lead customer-facing incident response.
- Diagnose root causes from logs and the Linux command line.
- Improve system monitoring and health data.
- Analyze failure trends and drive fixes with engineering.
- Travel to customer sites when issues need hands-on work.
What you bring
- 6+ years in a technical operations, reliability or field-support role.
- A bachelor's degree; a STEM degree or MBA is preferred.
- Independence across hardware, software and networking problems.
Nice to have
- Defense, special operations or military experience.
- On-call or site-reliability background, data analysis, Grafana and Git.
Skills Required
- 6+ years supporting complex technical systems, technical operations, reliability, or field support
- Team leadership experience
- Technical bachelor's degree or equivalent military, maritime, or industrial experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Ability to diagnose root causes using logs, dashboards, support tickets, and Linux command line
- Ability to work across hardware, software, and networking problems
- Must be eligible for a U.S. Secret clearance
- STEM degree or MBA
- Unmanned underwater vehicle or munitions deployment experience
- Naval, defense, special operations, or military experience
- On-call or site-reliability background
- Data analysis experience
What We Do
Value Driven Solutions (VDS) is an operational-excellence consulting firm serving middle-market companies, private-equity firms, and portfolio companies. It improves operational and financial performance through supply-chain optimization, operations, finance, technology, procurement, strategic consulting, and vetted interim executives. VDS also applies Lean Six Sigma, automation, robotics, AI, and analytics to strengthen efficiency, margins, capital efficiency, and enterprise value, with measurable, lasting results.
