Product Manager

Work Arrangement

This is an onsite position in Baltimore, MD with CONUS and OCONUS travel.

Job Overview

The Mission Support Center (MSC) Product Manager owns the development, delivery, and improvement of the company’s centralized operational support capability. Treating the MSC as a product, this role defines its users, services, roadmap, and performance measures to support deployed teams, customers, and program leadership across company operations.

The manager integrates watchbill personnel, training, tooling, and procedures into a dependable support service. Responsibilities include establishing coverage, qualifying watch standers, coordinating technical reachback, and ensuring timely issue resolution or escalation. The manager works with Operations, Integrated Product Support, Engineering, IT, and program leaders to translate mission requirements and field feedback into improvements.

The role establishes service expectations and balances operational demands with capability development. Success is measured through responsiveness, resolution effectiveness, watch stander readiness, user satisfaction, and contribution to mission availability.

Essential Functions

• Product Strategy and
  
  Roadmap:
  
  Define the MSC service portfolio, operating model, roadmap, and prioritized improvement backlog across company programs.
• Watchbill Management: Manage assigned watch standers and coordinate personnel from other departments; establish coverage, qualifications, shift assignments, handoffs, and backup arrangements.
• Training and
  
  Qualification:
  
  Develop onboarding, qualification standards, recurring training, exercises, and proficiency assessments with technical SMEs.
• Tooling and Information: Define requirements for communications, issue tracking, dashboards, knowledge resources, and remote diagnostic tools; coordinate implementation with IT and Engineering.
• Procedures and Escalation: Maintain procedures for receiving requests, troubleshooting, documenting actions, transferring watches, escalating issues, and communicating status.
• Operational Support: Coordinate support to operations, exercises, testing, and customer missions; connect watch standers with technical and program authorities.
• Performance and Improvement: Track support demand, response and resolution times, recurring issues, coverage gaps, and user feedback to improve services.
• Resource Planning: Forecast staffing, training, tooling, and funding requirements; recommend investments and communicate constraints to leadership.
• Cross-Program Coordination: Establish service expectations and priorities with program leaders, including competing demands and surge requirements.
• Personnel Leadership: Coach assigned personnel, assess performance, and coordinate development with functional managers for temporary watch standers.
• Perform other duties as required.

Standard Essential Functions

• Regular and reliable attendance on a full time basis [or in accordance with posted schedule].
• Responsible for exhibiting professional behavior with both internal and external business associates that reflects positively on the company and is consistent with the company's policies and practices.
• Embodies AEVEX’s cultural values and aligns daily actions with department goals and company culture.

Qualifications and Competencies

• Ability to translate user needs into service requirements, priorities, procedures, and measurable outcomes.
• Working knowledge of issue tracking, troubleshooting workflows, knowledge management, and performance reporting.
• Strong communication, organizational, and decision-making skills during time-sensitive situations.
• Ability to support a continuously operating center, including occasional nights, weekends, and surge periods.
• Willingness to travel to operational sites to assess…