Principal Product Manager, Applications

About Onebrief

Onebrief is collaboration and AI-powered workflow software designed specifically for military staffs. By transforming this work, Onebrief makes the staff as a whole superhuman - meaning faster, smarter, and more efficient.

We take ownership, seek excellence, and play to win with the seriousness and camaraderie of an Olympic team. Onebrief operates as an all-remote company, though many of our employees work alongside our customers at military commands around the world.

Founded in 2019 by a group of experienced planners, today, Onebrief’s team spans veterans from all forces and global organizations, and technologists from leading-edge software companies. We’ve raised $320m+ from top-tier investors, including Battery Ventures, General Catalyst, Sapphire Ventures, Insight Partners, and Human Capital, and today, Onebrief is valued at $2.15B. With this continued growth, Onebrief is able to make an impact where it matters most.

Role Overview

This is a senior leadership role responsible for driving the vision, strategy, and execution for Onebrief’s core application. You will oversee and coordinate our persona-based teams (Commander, Collaborator, and Creator), as well as any emerging front-end focused teams, ensuring seamless user experiences, coherent workflows, and consistent product quality across the entire application layer. Candidates who have lived in both worlds – the military environment and high-scale collaboration SaaS (e.g., Google Docs, Microsoft 365/Teams/Loop, Atlassian Confluence, Figma, Miro)-will be especially competitive. This role requires a strong blend of strategic leadership, cross-team orchestration, and hands-on product management expertise, with a focus on high-impact outcomes for diverse end-users in complex, high-stakes environments.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Vision

• Define, communicate, and align team to a unified product vision and strategy for all application teams, aligning their roadmaps to company-level objectives and user needs

• Set and drive cross-team priorities, ensuring that Commander, Collaborator, and Creator products deliver a seamless, integrated experience for all user personas

• Partner with executive leadership, platform and AI teams, and other stakeholders to shape the long-term direction of application products, balancing near-term delivery with long-term innovation

Cross-Team Coordination & Oversight

• Lead the coordination of strategic initiatives, roadmap planning, and execution across application teams, identifying and resolving cross-team dependencies and bottlenecks

• Ensure clean integration of application features with shared platform services (e.g., data models, UI libraries, real-time sync), with clear interfaces and reuse of core components

• Establish and run mechanisms for alignment, such as product councils, shared planning rituals, and transparent decision-making frameworks

Product Excellence & Execution

• Set high standards for UX, quality, reliability, and performance across all application surfaces

• Use user research, analytics, and feedback loops to inform priorities, guide iteration, and measure impact

• Ensure that each application team (Commander, Collaborator, Creator) delivers on its charter:

  • Commander: High-fidelity, actionable brief outputs and approval flows tailored for senior decision-makers

  • Creator: Powerful, flexible tools for authoring complex plans and content, enabling rapid iteration and high-quality outputs

  • Collaborator: Robust systems for feedback, tasking, comments, permissions, and provenance, supporting safe and efficient multi-user collaboration

Stakeholder Engagement

• Champion the voice of the user, grounded in a deep understanding of customer workflows and mission-critical needs

• Serve as the primary point of contact for application-layer product strategy, representing application team needs and priorities to executive leadership and the broader organization

• Build strong partnerships with engineering, design, customer success, and go-to-market teams to ensure successful delivery and adoption

Talent Development & Team Leadership

• Lead and mentor application Product Managers, providing coaching, context, and support to enable high performance and growth

• Help shape the application product management organization, contributing to hiring, onboarding, and best practices for distributed, cross-functional teams

Required Qualifications