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Own the integrated software product baseline and release cadence across autonomy software, communications, data platforms, edge hardware, and firmware. Define release criteria, make inclusion decisions, manage dependencies, maintain configuration documentation, measure release health, align cross-functional teams, communicate risks, and ensure products meet customer and field requirements.

Own product positioning, messaging, launches, content, competitive intelligence, and sales enablement for Forterra’s autonomous mission systems. Translate complex capabilities across mobility, communications, compute, and sensing into compelling materials for defense decision-makers, program offices, and industry partners. Partner with engineering, marketing, growth, and business development teams to develop proof points, support demos and events, and shape product strategy.

Leads Forterra’s government contracts function, including acquisition strategy, contract structuring, negotiations, award administration, compliance, data rights, intellectual property, and subcontracting. Advises business development, proposal, engineering, finance, legal, and program teams; manages government and industry relationships; and builds scalable contracts processes. The role requires expertise in FAR, DFARS, federal acquisition, and alternative contracting instruments, plus eligibility for a U.S. security clearance.

Creates visual assets for digital, print, events, campaigns, advertising, recruiting, and internal communications. Develops campaign identities, illustrations, infographics, templates, and scalable brand systems while translating complex technical concepts into compelling visual stories. Partners with marketing, communications, product, engineering, and leadership teams; prepares production-ready assets; manages multiple projects; and coordinates with external creative and production vendors.

Own vehicle systems architecture, requirements, integration, and testing across mechanical, electrical, and software domains. Integrate COTS and custom actuation and sensing systems, troubleshoot vehicle and lab issues, develop test plans, analyze telemetry with scripts, and create safety engineering artifacts. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams while interpreting schematics, CAD models, software, and interface documentation.

Design, integrate, deploy, and validate payload software on autonomous ground-vehicle platforms. Collaborate with users, product managers, researchers, and engineering teams to deliver autonomy behaviors and mission capabilities. Optimize sensing, compute, controls, and other subsystems; analyze tests, diagnose root causes, and resolve issues through deployment. Translate customer requirements into production-quality software while supporting real-world national security missions.

Develop and execute go-to-market strategies for defense autonomy solutions, cultivate relationships with defense commands and program offices, convert pilot programs into sustained deployments, coordinate cross-functional teams, expand market presence, and build new business lines and teams.

Own Forterra’s product security program across autonomous vehicle platforms, including security strategy, governance, DoD ATO and IATT lifecycles, STIG compliance, threat modeling, SBOM and vulnerability management, incident response, and security requirements. Lead product security engineers and cross-functional contributors, brief executives and government stakeholders, support bids and customer evaluations, and build a security-focused engineering culture.

Manages the full-cycle accounts payable process, including vendor invoices, employee travel and expense reports, corporate credit card reconciliations, payment inquiries, audit-ready documentation, internal controls, and month-end close support. The role reviews transactions for accuracy and policy compliance, maintains clear audit trails, prepares audit materials, and supports reconciliations, accruals, and variance explanations.

Owns product security for DoD autonomous systems, including end-to-end RMF and ATO execution, security architecture, requirements, threat modeling, STIG applicability, vulnerability management, monitoring, secure updates, SBOMs, and secure SDLC practices. Acts as the security subject-matter expert for engineering teams and government cyber or program offices, securing embedded hardware, software, air-gapped systems, and command-and-control platforms through authorization.