Product Specialist
About this role
Istari Digital builds the connective tissue for defense acquisition. Our platform lets engineering models, simulations, and digital threads move securely across primes, suppliers, and government program offices, so a system can be tested, trusted, and fielded in months rather than years. We work at the center of some of the hardest problems in defense acquisition: getting the right model, to the right person, at the right classification, at the right time. We are a small, senior team, and every hire changes what the company can do next.
The role
Istari is a platform for sharing and working on engineering data in highly regulated, no-fail industries — where a mistake can cost a mission, an aircraft, or a life. Teams building spacecraft, hypersonic vehicles, and submarines use it to keep their models, simulations, and test results connected, so they can move fast and not break things.
We’re hiring a Product Specialist to be the connective tissue between our product and the people who use and sell it. This is an early-career role with an unusual amount of surface area: some days you’ll be interviewing customers about what’s working and what isn’t, other days you’ll be building a one-pager for the sales team, recording a demo of a feature that shipped last week, or turning a pile of feedback from customer-facing teams into something product can act on.
We’re not hiring for years of experience. We’re hiring for smarts and hustle — someone who learns fast, follows through on everything they pick up, and finds real energy in being useful across a lot of fronts at once. You’ll work directly with our Head of Product, and you’ll learn how product gets built at a company where the users are aerospace and defense engineers and the stakes are real.
Done well, this role is a launchpad. You’ll touch customer research, product marketing, sales enablement, and product management in your first year — and the more you take on, the more you’ll be given.