Product Manager, Mission Planning

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap and long-term vision for Mission Planning across Plan and Portal products.
• Define product requirements, user stories, success metrics, and priorities aligned with customer needs and mission-operations strategy.
• Collaborate with engineering and design to create intuitive, scalable capabilities from operational problems.
• Participate in technical and architecture discussions and make tradeoffs among customer needs, usability, and long-term product health.
• Conduct user research, shadow workflows, analyze operational data, and synthesize customer feedback.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual planning and coordination using constraint-aware workflows.
• Develop planning capabilities for spacecraft activities, ground contacts, payload operations, and other mission activities.
• Account for operational constraints, resource availability, dependencies, priorities, and changing mission conditions.
• Define multi-party workflows with appropriate roles, permissions, operational boundaries, activity requests, status visibility, and situational awareness.
• Track planning effectiveness through metrics such as planning time, scheduling success, operator intervention, request turnaround, utilization, and automation adoption.
• Drive alignment across engineering, product, design, customer success, program teams, and leadership.

Requirements

• 3+ years of product management experience, preferably in aerospace, schedule optimization, autonomous vehicle operations, or complex technical SaaS.
• Proven ability to own product roadmaps and deliver complex features end-to-end.
• Ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance.
• Ability to understand complex user workflows and translate them into intuitive product experiences.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, cross-functional leadership, and prioritization skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in geospatial science, computer science, aerospace, business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, evolving environment with high ownership.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with satellite mission planning, spacecraft operations, ground segment systems, or aerospace scheduling.
• Experience designing products for multiple user personas with different roles, permissions, and levels of operational authority.
• Active U.S. security clearance at Secret level or higher.

Compensation and Benefits

• Salary range: $120,000–$180,000 annually.
• Unlimited PTO with a required minimum of 15 days off.
• Quarterly health and wellness benefits.
• Comprehensive health insurance with 100% employee coverage.
• 4% 401(k) matching.
• Annual four-day company offsite.