Principal Product Manager

We are seeking a strategic, execution-oriented Principal Product Manager to lead the development of complex, high-impact software products serving aerospace engineering and defense customers. This role is ideal for a seasoned product leader with deep experience shaping product vision, validating hypotheses through customer insight, and driving cross-functional teams toward delivery in high-stakes, secure environments. As a key member of the product leadership team, you will play a pivotal role in defining and delivering user-centric solutions that meet mission-critical needs. Your background in software engineering or product development—particularly in the Department of Defense (DoD), aerospace, or other cleared work environments—will be instrumental to your success.

Istari is a digital engineering software company enabling our customers to turn the physical world into the digital to accomplish their specific mission or business objectives. Istari was founded with the vision of making open, scalable digital engineering ecosystems a reality – where new technologies and systems are created digitally, free from the real-world constraints of costs and schedules. We are creating the world's best engineering model sharing platform, allowing our customers to simply and securely integrate their models across different engineering disciplines, organizations, and security levels. At Istari, we are passionate about our mission of creating the world's first open and scalable industrial metaverse. Whether our customers are designing prototypes, performing virtual testing, or training AI and autonomy for complex systems, we know that going digital will save them time, resources, and reduce their environmental impact. While we are a distributed team with most team-members working remotely, we place an emphasis on staying connected and collaborative, prioritizing in-person opportunities to build trust as a team. At Istari, we still believe that trust is best built in-person. To do this, we have an engineering headquarters in Cambridge, MA for focused technical development and several times per year we gather for an off-site that allows us to develop our professional skills and our team relationships.