Senior Product Manager

Brisbane, Australia

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refuelling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Group Overview

Metrea is actively building its presence in Australia as part of a deliberate, globally coordinated expansion into the Asia-Pacific region. Our Asia-Pacific Market Group, headquartered in Brisbane with an additional office in Perth, is the enterprise's dedicated regional interface — connecting Australia's national security community with Metrea's full suite of capabilities across three core domains: Aerospace, Electromagnetic & Cyber, and Digital & Synthetic. Metrea is now bringing that same depth of mission expertise and proven operating model to Australia.

Underpinning these capabilities is a global network of Support Groups spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement — ensuring that as we grow in Australia, we do so with the full weight of an established global enterprise behind us.

Metrea's solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving — enabling our partners to scale capacity and achieve asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Position Summary

As Senior Product Manager you will be responsible for capturing insights and requirements from customers, the market, and internal strategy and making key decisions that impact the product roadmap. You will collaborate with other Product Managers to decide when to make core product changes, configurations, or customizations to maximise the utility of the product while meeting the needs of our key customers. As our first Product hire in Australia, you will also be partly responsible for our regional presence and for building on our already deep understanding of the Australian market.

What You'll Do

Deeply understand the requirements of our key customers in Australia and continuously gather feedback, ideas, and other insights

Maintain strong relationships with our market group teammates and support when required with customer visits, contract performance reviews, and other customer-facing activities

Scope potential developments and perform the role of Product Owner within the local development team

Work with other product leaders to optimize the product roadmap for customer-specific needs and general market needs

Develop an understanding of Metrea’s unique strategy, value propositions, and Firmware (see below) and contribute to growing more Metreans

What You Bring

Experience building trusted relationships and operating effectively within Australian Government and national security environments

The ability to uncover real insights through listening, questioning, and learning

Understanding of Agile software development, preferably within a complex product architecture where multiple versions are developed concurrently

Experience shipping software in regulated environments and an understanding of the associated challenges

Technical understanding in one or more areas related to the role: user interface design, software engineering, maritime operations, airborne operations, ops and control room software

Benefits

Private Health Insurance

Generous PTO

Annual incentive plan

Paid parental leave

Life and TPD insurance

Income Protection Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Novated Car Leasing

Security Clearance

Ability to obtain and maintain an AGSVA Security Clearance and government administered background checks.

Inclusion

We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad range of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and make hiring decisions based on capability, potential and alignment with our values. If you require any adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please let us know.

Our Firmware

At Metrea, our single core value is Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes are Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.

Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.

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