Founding Product Manager

Role overview

A space technology startup is hiring a founding product manager to help build and commercialize an advanced environmental intelligence platform. The role sits at the crossroads of AI/ML, sensor fusion, space operations, and national security, and will be central to turning an established technical capability into a scalable offering for both public-sector and commercial buyers.

This is a high-impact opportunity for a product leader who enjoys working in deeply technical environments and wants to influence both the product direction and market growth from an early stage.

What you'll do

• Define and own the product vision, roadmap, and overall strategy for a critical technology platform.
• Act as the main interface between customers, operators, and engineering teams.
• Collect, evaluate, and rank customer needs to inform product development.
• Convert sophisticated technical features into usable customer-facing solutions.
• Assist with customer demos, workshops, and other technical discussions.
• Set product requirements, acceptance standards, and release priorities.
• Partner closely with engineering to shape feature delivery and product growth.
• Spot new applications, markets, and expansion opportunities.
• Contribute to commercialization work, including positioning and go-to-market execution.
• Help drive deployment success and adoption within customer environments.

What the employer is looking for

• Background managing complex technical products in aerospace, defense, space, communications, or closely related sectors.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, scientists, and other technical stakeholders.
• Experience turning customer problems into product requirements and roadmap decisions.
• Familiarity with data-centric systems, analytics platforms, sensor networks, or mission-critical technologies.
• Exposure to space systems, Space Domain Awareness, RF, radar, SATCOM, GNSS, or communications technologies is valuable.
• Experience serving defense, government, or national security customers is preferred.
• Prior involvement in product launches or 0-to-1 product development is beneficial.
• Experience in startup, venture-backed, or dual-use technology environments is a plus.

Additional information

This is a rare founding-level role at a company that is at an important inflection point. The position offers direct influence over product direction, customer adoption, and long-term business outcomes, while helping bring a category-defining capability to market.

How to apply

Interested candidates can respond directly to the hiring contact mentioned in the source.