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AeroVironment

Principal Product Marketing Manager

AeroVironment

Simi Valley, CA · full time · Senior

$139,000 – $212,000

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What this role is

Lead the product marketing strategy for a $500M defense technology portfolio focused on loitering munitions and precision strike systems. This role combines deep technical positioning, launch execution, and sales enablement for a portfolio sold to DoD program offices, primes, and allied governments, requiring both marketing discipline and embedded partnership with the business unit.

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What they ask for

Required

  • 12+ years civilian work experience
  • 8+ years product marketing in enterprise software/hardware or defense/aerospace technology
  • Demonstrated portfolio ownership at $100M+ revenue scale
  • Fluency in DoD acquisition dynamics and program lifecycles
  • Ability to develop positioning grounded in operational evidence
  • Experience operating within export control and classification constraints
  • Self-directed operator with executive accountability
  • Ability to build trust with technical and program stakeholders
  • Commutable to AV Simi Valley Campus
  • U.S. citizenship

Nice to have

  • Direct experience marketing loitering munitions, one-way attack, or EW products
  • Prior military service or program office experience
  • Active or recent Secret clearance or ability to obtain one
  • Experience competing against established primes and emerging defense entrants

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