• Own product strategy and roadmap for commercial defense product lines, grounded in customer workflows, constraints, and adoption patterns • Lead product discovery with primes, Tier 1 suppliers, and defense-focused technology companies to identify high-value, repeatable product opportunities • Translate customer problems into clear product bets, success metrics, and sequencing decisions • Engage directly with commercial defense customers to understand how they evaluate, adopt, and scale new technology • Build credibility with technical, engineering, and product stakeholders inside customer organizations • Identify patterns across customer engagements that inform platform capabilities rather than one-off solutions • Partner closely with Growth to inform ICPs, value propositions, and opportunity shaping • Collaborate deeply with Engineering to frame problems, explore solution spaces, and sequence product investments • Provide clarity and focus to small, fast-moving teams operating in complex technical environments • Help identify where Code Metal should - and should not - invest product effort within the defense market • Represent the voice of the commercial defense customer internally, grounding decisions in external reality rather than internal assumptions