Radar Product Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the product and business strategy for the transportable radar product, encompassing vision, roadmap, market positioning, prioritization, packaging, configurations, and execution.

• Cultivate a thorough understanding of customers, users, missions, workflows, operational environments, procurement factors, and purchasing behaviors.

• Collaborate with commercial and government clients, operators, mission partners, internal stakeholders, and subject-matter experts to identify needs and confirm opportunities.

• Identify and prioritize market segments, mission areas, use cases, deployment models, and customer challenges.

• Convert customer, mission, and business requirements into product specifications, system capabilities, configurations, interfaces, and prioritized development tasks.

• Work alongside radar, hardware, software, systems, data, infrastructure, and operations teams during discovery, development, integration, testing, deployment, operation, and iteration.

• Make product investment choices based on customer value, differentiation, revenue potential, sensor performance, feasibility, complexity, scalability, and company priorities.

• Establish product capabilities, configurations, service levels, and access models, and effectively position them for customers.

• Collaborate with Sales, Business Development, Marketing, and Customer Success on engagements, discussions, demonstrations, proposals, pursuits, pilots, and go-to-market initiatives.

• Assist in shaping pricing, packaging, service models, and commercial frameworks.

• Assess trade-offs between radar performance, deployment location, coverage, capacity, tasking, reliability, availability, maintainability, cost, and mission results.

• Enhance sensing capabilities, data quality, coverage, availability, operational efficiency, and customer value in partnership with Engineering and Operations.

• Define customer interaction and tasking requirements, data delivery, and system integrations.

• Maintain and communicate the product roadmap and ensure alignment among Product, Engineering, Radar Operations, Sales, Business Development, Customer Success, and leadership.

• Define and track product, business, and operational metrics.

• Lead product launches and internal enablement initiatives.

• Analyze competing sensing solutions, emerging radar and sensor technologies, market trends, and changing space and national-security needs.

• Differentiate repeatable market demands from unique customer requests and develop a scalable product family.

• Contribute to establishing and enhancing product management practices.

• Achieve success by aligning product and market strategies, clearly packaging capabilities, improving product performance and usability, driving customer mission value and revenue growth, and maintaining cross-functional alignment.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in product management, preferably with products that involve hardware, software, data, sensing, infrastructure, or other complex technical systems.

• Professional background in the space industry, or in a closely related aerospace, defense, or national-security sector, with a proven understanding of space missions, customers, operators, or technologies.

• Proven experience managing products or significant product areas from market discovery and product strategy through development, deployment, launch, adoption, and iteration.

• Strong business acumen and the ability to link product decisions to customer mission outcomes, competitive differentiation, revenue opportunities, and company strategy.

• Excellent customer orientation and experience engaging directly with customers to uncover needs, validate opportunities, and translate feedback into scalable products.

• Demonstrated capability to comprehend complex technical systems and translate technical capabilities, limitations, and trade-offs into clear product directives and priorities.

• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary engineering teams, including hardware, software, systems, infrastructure, data, operations, or other related technical functions.

• Ability to make informed prioritization decisions across customer requests, market opportunities, engineering constraints, operational considerations, cost, schedule, and strategic priorities.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, utilizing technical performance data, customer feedback, market information, and business considerations.

• Capacity to function effectively in a fast-paced environment.

• Curiosity and a willingness to develop expertise in radar, RF systems, space surveillance, orbital operations, and related technical fields.

• Ability to operate with a high level of ownership and independently drive product decisions while fostering alignment across multiple organizations.

• Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally.

• Occasional travel is required to understand customer missions, support engagements and deployments, and represent the product in the market.

• Preferred: experience with radar, RF systems, remote sensing, ground-based sensors, satellite sensors, or other advanced sensing technologies.

• Preferred: experience in developing or commercializing products that integrate hardware, software, data, communications, infrastructure, and operational systems.

• Preferred: direct experience with Space Domain Awareness, Space Situational Awareness, Space Surveillance and Tracking, satellite operations, orbital analysis, or related space missions.

• Preferred: familiarity with missile warning, missile tracking, and integrated air and missile defense missions.

• Preferred: experience working with satellite operators, U.S. government space organizations, allied defense organizations, intelligence organizations, or commercial space companies.

• Preferred: familiarity with radar concepts such as detection, tracking, search, revisit rates, coverage, waveforms, beam scheduling, capacity, measurement quality, or sensor tasking.

• Preferred: familiarity with orbital mechanics, tracking data, state vectors, conjunction assessment, maneuver detection, object characterization, or other space-domain concepts.

• Preferred: experience with deployed products or infrastructure where reliability, availability, maintainability, logistics, site selection, and operational support are crucial.

• Preferred: experience supporting government acquisition processes, strategic pursuits, proposals, demonstrations, pilots, customer evaluations, or major program captures.

• Preferred: experience defining product packaging, pricing, configurations, service levels, or go-to-market strategies for complex technical products.

• Preferred: experience working with products sold through various ownership, operating, or service models.

• Preferred: experience working directly with government and commercial customers in complex enterprise sales environments.

• Preferred: technical degree or background in engineering, physics, computer science, aerospace, electrical engineering, systems engineering, or a related field.

• Preferred: active U.S. Government security clearance, or the ability and willingness to obtain and maintain one.

• Must be eligible to obtain the necessary ITAR authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Equity

• $100 monthly wellness benefit to support your health and well-being

• $300 home office setup stipend, available for use within your first six months

• $75 monthly home internet allowance, paid directly through your regular paycheck

• Individual Development Fund to support training, learning, and professional development

• Employee Recognition Program to celebrate contributions and achievements across the team

• Employee Referral Program

• And much more!