Product Management Intern

Responsibilities

• Drive definition on portions of existing and next-generation hardware products, including drones, controllers, cameras, and accessories.
• Engage with customers, prospects, and internal stakeholders to understand core business problems.
• Draw upon direct customer experiences, ride-alongs, and usage analytics to inform projects.
• Develop, own, and publish product requirement documents for vehicle hardware, controllers, cameras/sensors, and embedded software.
• Partner with designers and engineering leaders spanning hardware, firmware, computer vision, AI, and machine learning to execute on self-contained projects expected to ship during the internship or shortly after.
• Capture, document, and distill feedback from customers and prospects to steer product development.
• Collaborate closely with sales and customer success to build and maintain close customer relationships.
• Partner with product marketing to develop launch plans, product positioning, and messaging.
• Collaborate with the Go To Market Strategy team to forecast demand and price products.

Requirements

• Track record of success demonstrating high ownership and high agency in fast-paced environments.
• Clear and effective communicator in both technical and storytelling contexts.
• Exceptional critical thinker who loves to learn and can process and leverage new information rapidly.
• Team player willing to take on any task to get the job done.
• Strong spatial and mechanical reasoning ability.
• Love to get out “in the field” to learn first-hand.
• Great sense for risk management and comfortable forming strong opinions with partial information.
• Strong business acumen; can approach problems from top-down business or bottom-up technical perspectives.
• Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days of employment is strongly encouraged.

Nice-to-Haves

• Background in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or computer science.
• Advanced degree or degree in progress such as an MBA.
• Aviation or drone experience.
• Experience with IoT or networked devices.
• Experience working in core verticals (Law Enforcement, National Security, Electrical Utilities).
• Experience with enterprise/professional robotics or drones.
• Direct or indirect engineering experience allowing active participation in technical architecture discussions and tradeoffs.

Compensation

• Hourly base salary: $47/hr for Undergrad, $53/hr for Graduate students, $58/hr for PhD students.
• Compensation varies based on skill level, proficiencies, transferable knowledge, and experience.