As a Product Design Director, you will be responsible for leading, coaching, and inspiring a team of designers and design leaders working across multiple product surfaces. You will partner with Product and Engineering leadership counterparts to lead a product division, aligning strategy, driving decisions, and unblocking delivery. You will set and uphold an extremely high bar for craft, from UX flow to pixels to polish.

You will solve problems from first principles, not templates. You will help your team make hard decisions, move fast, and focus on outcomes over process. You will be a design quality amplifier, noticing the details others miss, and pushing the work to where it needs to be. You will build a healthy, high-trust team culture grounded in feedback, growth, and ownership.

You will stay hands-on in the work, reviewing designs, jumping into critiques, and driving clarity. You will be a key player in shaping how the entire company builds product in the AI era, not following playbooks, but writing new ones.

You will know you're successful if your team is delivering high-quality product work at speed, consistently. You've hired exceptional talent and helped your existing team grow. You've partnered with other design leaders and operations functions to implement the correct amount of structure and rigour required for success.

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This role sits at the intersection of product, growth, and creative, and is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments where the technology is as ambitious as the mission.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and drive product positioning, messaging frameworks, and win themes across Saronic's portfolio of autonomous surface vessels and software capabilities

• Own and implement marketing campaigns designed to further audience understanding of Saronic's core capabilities

• Work closely with growth to help maintain a library of product marketing collateral including presentation decks, slick sheets, capability briefs, and other materials

• Partner closely with the product team to deeply understand platform capabilities, roadmap priorities, and technical differentiators , and translate them into customer-facing value propositions

• Collaborate with the growth and business development teams to ensure marketing materials directly support capture efforts, proposals, and customer engagements

• Work with the creative team to brief and produce high-quality visual assets, graphics, and multimedia content that support product marketing initiatives

• Own and contribute to product-related web copy, ensuring messaging is consistent, current, and optimized for target audiences

• Support trade show and event presence by helping define key content themes and overall participation strategy

• Track and analyze the effectiveness of product marketing efforts, iterating based on customer feedback and market response

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of product marketing experience, preferably in defense, aerospace, or other highly technical industries

• Demonstrated ability to distill complex, technical subject matter into clear, persuasive messaging for non-technical and semi-technical audiences

• Exceptional writing and editing skills

• Experience producing marketing collateral for government or defense customers, including familiarity with how defense procurement and capture processes work

• Track record of close collaboration with product management, engineering, and sales/BD teams

• Self-starter comfortable operating in a high-velocity startup environment

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, engineering, or a related field

• U.S. citizenship required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong visual sensibility and experience briefing creative teams on asset production

• Familiarity with defense contract vehicles, proposal support, and the language of government buyers

• Experience with platforms such as Salesforce or similar CRM/marketing automation systems

• Experience working in high-growth startup environments

• Ability to operate autonomously and collaborate across technical and non-technical teams

• Active security clearance is helpful but not required

Benefits:

• Medical Insurance: Comprehensive health insurance plans covering a range of services

• Saronic pays 100% of the premium for employees and 80% for dependents

• Dental and Vision Insurance: Coverage for routine dental check-ups, orthodontics, and vision care

• Saronic pays 100% of the premium under the basic plan for employees and 80% for dependents

• Time Off: Generous PTO and Holidays

• Parental Leave: Paid maternity and paternity leave to support new parents

• Competitive Salary: Industry-standard salaries with opportunities for performance-based bonuses

• Retirement Plan: 401(k) plan with company match

• Stock Options: Equity options to give employees a stake in the company's success

• Life and Disability Insurance: Basic life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage

• Pet Insurance: Discounted pet insurance options including 24/7 Telehealth helpline

Additional Perks: Free lunch benefit and unlimited free drinks and snacks in the office

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