# Omri D. > Senior Product Manager Location: Mountain View, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/omrid Experienced product leader with over a decade of experience in product management. Proven success driving products from concept to launch through strategic planning, market research, road mapping, and cross-functional team leadership. I am passionate about identifying and solving problems for customers through technology. ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Manager @ Blue River Technology Jan 2025 – Present | California, United States ### Group Product Manager @ Elbit Systems Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 • Managed a cross-functional team of 6 Product Managers to design and develop the company’s flagship unmanned aerial system • Prioritized customer use cases and directed development efforts to align with mission-critical needs, resulting in improved operational capabilities • Developed and launched 4 user-facing software applications, including a flight station, ground testing simulator, and flight analysis tool. Integrated real-time data processing and UI/UX enhancements, improving GUI efficiency by 35% • Drove adoption & retention by engaging users through continuous feedback loops, refining key software features based on customer workshops and field testing, increasing feature adoption rates by 20% and user satisfaction by 25% • Developed an AI-driven image-based monitoring system, utilizing real-time sensor data to detect anomalies, automate diagnostics, and enhance predictive maintenance, reducing scheduled maintenance by 80% and ensuring seamless user experience • Accelerated product development timelines bringing the product to market faster than comparable programs • Drove user-centric design improvements, enhancing usability and operational efficiency across multiple systems • Ensured high-quality outcomes by fostering close collaboration between engineering, design, and product teams • Guided an expedited product development initiative, bringing the product to market 66% faster than similar products ### Senior Product Manager @ Elbit Systems Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 • Redesigned flight station software, streamlining workflows and reducing misclicking by 100%, resulting in increased adoption across product lines • Defined functional and design roadmaps for complex aerial systems through detailed specifications, regulatory compliance, and algorithm development • Collaborated with cross-functional teams and external partners, ensuring seamless API and system integrations for clients • Led new feature and defect tracking strategy, reducing user-impacting issues by 50% and minimizing urgent patches through validation of customer needs • Prioritized new features, bug fixes, and integrations via a comprehensive analysis and validation of customer needs, increasing time between minor SW versions by 50% • Created tools via Python to analyze telemetry and identify faults, reducing flight analyzing time by 60% ### Product Manager @ Elbit Systems Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 • Led development of SW for multidisciplinary products from concept to launch • Optimized UX for user-facing products, enhancing user accuracy and control, reducing preflight time by 20%, and driving customer requests for similar upgrades across product lines • Proactively developed Python tools to analyze telemetry data, reducing flight analysis time by 60%, delivering faster insights for customers and accelerating data-driven decision • Developed functional and design roadmaps for complex aerial systems through detailed specifications, algorithm development and hands-on collaboration with SW engineers • Worked closely with customers in B2C settings, providing solutions and directly shaping the strategic direction of the product design and future features • Enhanced UX increasing user accuracy and control, reducing preflight time by 20%, resulting in requests from customers for similar upgrades in other systems ### UAV Lead Test Pilot and Product Designer @ Elbit Systems Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 • Managed a team of 10 flight crew members and oversaw flight crew qualifications, briefing and debriefing flights, creating a uniform format for all activities • Designed and carried out test flights, leading and instructing flight teams for all experiment flights, increasing flight data collection by 25% per flight • Designed and implemented a flight data collection system which supported cross-referencing analysis reducing the number of reoccurring test flights by 30% ### UAV Instructor and Test Pilot @ Elbit Systems Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 • Executed test flights for new aerial systems, generating a database currently implemented in all new products, reducing number of flights for new platforms by 20% • Led demo flights, customer presentations, training, and logistics in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia ## Education ### Master of Business Administration - MBA Tel Aviv University - Coller School of Management ### Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc in Engineering/Industrial Management Shenkar - Engineering. Design. Art. ### Business Administration and Management Florida Atlantic University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/omrid --- Source: https://flows.cv/omrid JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/omrid/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05