Digital Platform Product Manager

About the position

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling - to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today's mission and stay ahead of tomorrow's threat. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world. We are seeking a strategic and collaborative Digital Platform Services Leader to lead a team of experts in designing and delivering secure, scalable orchestration and container management platforms. This role blends product leadership, technical expertise, and team management to drive innovative solutions aligned with business goals. The leader in this role will define and execute the vision, roadmap, and strategy for platform engineering services, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and mission objectives. This position reports to Raytheon Program Digital Services and will play a key role in fostering cross-functional collaboration, advancing digital transformation, and enabling business growth through cutting-edge platform solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define the vision and roadmap for platform engineering initiatives, ensuring they deliver measurable business value.
• Drive collaboration across disciplines, manage the product lifecycle, and optimize digital platforms based on insights, analytics, and evolving customer needs.
• Define and communicate a clear product vision, minimum viable product (MVP), and roadmap for Raytheon's orchestration and container management platforms.
• Build and lead a high-performing team, including hiring, onboarding and retaining top talent.
• Plan workloads and prioritize tasks to maintain team productivity.
• Conduct ROI assessments to prioritize initiatives that balance business value, feasibility, and effort.
• Partner with cross-functional teams, including engineering, operations, and program personnel, to align on goals, requirements, and success metrics.
• Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle, including development, deployment, and continuous optimization.
• Implement and oversee measurement plans to assess product success, leveraging usage analytics, customer research, and market insights.
• Drive automation, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code practices to optimize platform performance and scalability across on-premises, cloud, and air-gapped environments.
• Collaborate to define release plans and strategies, ensuring successful adoption of new platform capabilities.

Requirements

• Typically, a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years experience.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
• 8+ years of product management experience, with at least 3+ years in a leadership role managing product teams.
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams to develop and launch successful products.
• Experience in driving product strategy, vision, and execution in alignment with business objectives.
• Experience engaging diverse stakeholders across technical and business domains.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and lifecycle management best practices.

Nice-to-haves

• Expertise in Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, and orchestration platforms.
• Experience conducting ROI analysis and prioritize projects based on business value.
• Experience in air-gapped or regulated environments, including DoD networks.
• Proficiency in Terraform, Packer, and DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes platforms like Rancher, OpenShift, or VMware Tanzu.
• Experience in delivering scalable, secure, high-performance solutions.
• Experience using analytics tools to derive actionable insights and inform product decisions.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance
• Short-term disability, long-term disability
• 401(k) match
• Flexible spending accounts
• Flexible work schedules
• Employee assistance program
• Employee Scholar Program
• Parental leave
• Paid time off
• Holidays