Product Director- Maritime

Overwatch Imaging is an imagery intelligence technology company working to bring sensor autonomy to time-critical airborne search, detection, tracking and monitoring missions. Our Automated Sensor Operator (ASO) software, native to our own line of purpose-built Smart Sensors and as an upgrade for airborne video gimbal platforms, brings Superhuman Vision and Workload Reduction to users of real-time imagery intelligence systems. We fundamentally believe that modern edge processing and AI-enabled autonomy can perform an important set of time-critical imagery intelligence missions better, faster and more safely than humans can alone.

Founded in 2016 in Hood River, Oregon, we support private sector companies as well as federal, state and local agencies around the world with missions ranging from wildfire mapping and disaster response to law enforcement, border security, maritime domain awareness and tactical intelligence.

Overwatch Imaging is hiring a Director of ASO for Maritime Applications to drive the adoption and growth of our Automated Sensor Operator product line across maritime domain awareness, maritime patrol, search and rescue, border and coastal security, counter-narcotics, fisheries enforcement, and related missions. Working both as an Integrated Product Team Leader and a collaborator across company functional teams, this Director will lead and influence the iterative process of understanding maritime user needs, developing and delivering capabilities that solve those needs, capturing and successfully executing contracts, learning from operational customer feedback, and converting successful deployments into growth opportunities.

This role is built for a lead-from-the-front executive who can earn trust with maritime operators while also leading a team of product developers and customer success professionals. The successful candidate will understand the operational realities of wide-area maritime search and surveillance and be able to translate those realities into differentiated product capabilities, successful deployments and sustained revenue growth. Success in this role is defined by customer success and adoption of ASO across the maritime ISR community.

This leader will work closely with business development, marketing, demonstrations, product development, test, and quality teammates across the company. This role reports directly to the CEO and will be accountable for substantial growth within the maritime mission area.

• Maintain close working relationships with maritime operators, program offices and industry partners to deeply understand mission workflows, capability gaps and emerging requirements.
• Identify opportunities to expand ASO adoption across maritime domain awareness, maritime patrol, search and rescue, counter-narcotics, border security, fisheries enforcement and related missions.
• Translate operational requirements into product capabilities that improve wide-area search, vessel detection, classification, tracking and actionable intelligence delivery.
• Deliver product prototypes and feature releases that demonstrate measurable operational value and lead to follow-on growth.
• Develop a strong understanding of adjacent sensors and data sources—including EO/IR, AIS and radar—and identify opportunities to create increasingly integrated maritime workflows.

• Identify, recruit and lead a cross-functional team capable of prototyping new capabilities, demonstrating and iterating on those capabilities, and transitioning successful concepts into long-term product offerings.
• Own product priorities and roadmap decisions for…