Manufacturing, Engineering Services

Product Lead, Internal Tools

El Segundo, CAOnsiteFull TimeLead$211,000–$290,000 /yrPosted 14 days agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

internal software
AI
bottlenecks
opportunities
problem statements
user workflows
success measures
scoped projects
software opportunities
process

Nice to have

enterprise-platform team
ERP
CRM
QMS
manufacturing
data platforms

Role summary

CHAOS Industries is seeking a Product Lead for its new Internal Tools and AI team in Los Angeles. This role involves identifying high-value problems across business functions, deciding on build/buy/integrate strategies, and developing software solutions. The Product Lead will be hands-on, prototyping, coding, and integrating solutions using AI-assisted tools. Responsibilities include translating ambiguous requests into clear problem statements, prioritizing projects with a steerco, and building reusable capabilities for data access, permissions, and workflows. The ideal candidate has 4+ years in product management with a software engineering background, strong technical judgment, and experience in high-autonomy, ambiguous environments. Fluency with modern AI development tools is essential. This is an onsite role.

CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage—domain dominance. The company's products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats.

CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised a total of $1 billion in funding from leading investors, including 8VC, Accel, and Valor Equity Partners. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and London. For more information, please visit www.chaosinc.com.

Role Overview

Agents of CHAOS is a new internal software and AI team focused on making CHAOS faster and more effective. As Product Lead, you’ll work across business functions to identify high-value problems, decide when to build, buy, integrate, automate, or change a process, and turn the best opportunities into working software. You’ll also balance your team building software versus creating capabilities (software and enablement) for other internal teams to develop their own. Especially early on, this is a builder role as much as a product role. You’ll prototype, write code, create automations and integrations, and use AI-assisted development tools alongside engineers—not simply scope work for others. Over time, you’ll help establish reusable foundations that enable teams across CHAOS to build and automate more effectively themselves.

Responsibilities

Work directly with teams across Finance, HR, Recruiting, Growth, Operations, Engineering, Manufacturing, IT, and Security to understand workflows, bottlenecks, and opportunities for internal software or AI.

Turn ambiguous requests into clear problem statements, user workflows, success measures, and appropriately scoped projects; distinguish software opportunities from process, policy, training, or vendor problems.

Develop priorities in concert with a steerco to address quick wins, reusable platform capabilities, and longer-term internal systems while balancing impact, urgency, cost, risk, dependencies, and maintenance burden.

Personally build working prototypes, automations, lightweight applications, and integrations using code, APIs, AI-assisted development tools, and low-code platforms; particularly early on, expect to implement meaningful portions of solutions.

Partner closely with engineers to move solutions from prototype to production, making pragmatic decisions about architecture, data flows, permissions, maintainability, sequencing, and build-versus-buy tradeoffs.

Create reusable capabilities for data access, permissions, integrations, agent workflows, and other common needs so each new internal tool is easier to build, deploy, and operate than the last.

Work full-time onsite in our Los Angeles office.

Occasional travel may be required for cross-functional collaboration with other CHAOS offices and operating locations.

Minimum Requirements

4+ years in product management delivering software products or internal tools in high-ambiguity environments.

A software engineering background with meaningful hands-on coding experience and strong working knowledge of modern web applications, APIs, data models, integrations, authentication, permissions, and software architecture.

You are equally comfortable interviewing a business team about a broken workflow and opening an IDE to test a solution.

You have strong product judgment and focus on the underlying problem rather than the requested feature.

You thrive in high-autonomy, ambiguous environments and can move from discovery to a working solution without waiting for perfect requirements.

You know when to prototype quickly, when to invest in durable infrastructure, and when not to build software at all.

You earn credibility with engineers through technical depth and with business teams through pragmatism, communication, and follow-through.

Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous business problems from discovery through implementation and adoption, ideally across multiple functions, clients, or domains.

Fluency with modern AI development workflows and tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, or similar, including using them to materially accelerate prototyping and software development.

Preferred Requirements

Experience in a design-build software consultancy, internal-tools or enterprise-platform team, forward-deployed engineering organization

Familiarity with systems such as ERP, CRM, QMS, manufacturing, or data platforms

Why CHAOS?

Health Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid for by the company

Additional benefits: 401k (+ 50% company match up to 6% of pay), FSA, HSA, life insurance, and more

Our Perks: Free daily lunch, ‘No meeting Fridays’, unlimited PTO, casual dress code

Compensation Components: Competitive base salaries, generous pre-IPO stock option grants, relocation assistance, and (coming soon!) annual bonuses

Team Growth: 350 employees and counting across 5 global offices

Salary Range: $211,000 - $290,000

The stated compensation range reflects only the targeted base compensation range and excludes additional earnings such as bonus, equity, and benefits. If your compensation requirements fall outside of the range, we still encourage you to apply. The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations.

Recruiting Agencies: CHAOS Industries does not accept unsolicited resumes or outreach. Unsolicited submissions will not be reviewed or compensated.

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