Software Product Manager

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

📋 Description

• Take responsibility for the product and business strategy of LeoLabs’ SDA software product, encompassing product vision, roadmap, market positioning, prioritization, packaging, and execution.

• Cultivate a comprehensive understanding of customers, users, missions, workflows, operational challenges, and purchasing behavior.

• Collaborate with commercial and government clients, operators, analysts, internal stakeholders, and subject-matter experts to identify unmet needs and validate opportunities.

• Identify and rank market segments, use cases, and customer challenges.

• Convert customer, mission, and business requirements into product specifications, capabilities, user experiences, and prioritized development tasks.

• Partner with Engineering throughout the stages of discovery, definition, development, testing, release, and iteration.

• Make informed product investment decisions based on customer value, differentiation, revenue potential, feasibility, scalability, and company priorities.

• Define product packaging and positioning strategies.

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

• Aid in shaping pricing, packaging, and commercial models.

• Maintain and communicate the product roadmap across cross-functional teams and leadership.

• Define and monitor product and business metrics, including adoption, usage, customer outcomes, retention, expansion, revenue impact, and product performance.

• Lead product launches and internal enablement efforts.

• Assess competitors, adjacent markets, acquisition trends, emerging technologies, and shifts in the space and national-security landscape.

• Differentiate between repeatable market needs and individual customer requests.

• Enhance product management practices as LeoLabs grows.

• Success is defined by establishing a distinctive product strategy, enhancing customer adoption and outcomes, supporting revenue growth, empowering Sales and Business Development, and ensuring cross-functional alignment.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of product management experience, ideally with software, data, analytics, enterprise, or other highly technical products.

• Professional experience in the space industry or a closely related aerospace, defense, or national-security environment, demonstrating an understanding of space missions, customers, operators, or technologies.

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

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

• A customer-centric approach with experience engaging directly with customers to uncover needs, validate opportunities, and translate feedback into scalable products.

• Demonstrated capacity to distill complex technical, operational, or customer issues into clear product direction and priorities.

• Experience collaborating closely with software engineering teams and technical leaders throughout the product development lifecycle.

• Ability to make informed prioritization choices among competing customer requests, business opportunities, strategic priorities, and technical limitations.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills tailored to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities utilizing both quantitative and qualitative data.

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

• Curiosity and eagerness to acquire deeper expertise in complex space, technical, and mission domains.

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

• Willingness and capability to travel domestically and internationally.

• An active U.S. Government security clearance, or the willingness and ability to obtain and maintain one, is preferred.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus and 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 growth.

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

• Employee Referral Program to help us connect with exceptional talent.

• And much more!