Product Manager - Advanced Space Capabilities
Electro Optic Systems
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Job summary
EOS Space Systems is seeking a Product Manager to shape and evolve our space-focused product portfolio. You will translate defence, civil, and commercial space needs into strategic roadmaps and investment decisions, spanning customers, engineering, and business development.
Gain exposure to a broad set of missions, managing lifecycle from concept through market adoption, and delivering products that address real customer challenges and opportunities for sustainable competitive advantage.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience in Product Management, Product Strategy, Systems Engineering, Capability Development, or a related discipline.
- Experience working within the space, defence, aerospace, intelligence, or advanced technology sectors.
- Proven ability to develop and execute product roadmaps from concept through to market adoption.
- Experience translating customer requirements and operational needs into product requirements and development priorities.
- Strong understanding of product lifecycle management, including development, sustainment, and retirement.
- Experience engaging with customers and stakeholders to identify market opportunities and capability gaps.
- Demonstrated commercial acumen, including business case development, investment prioritisation, and market analysis.
- Experience in cross-functional teams across engineering, sales, business development, and leadership.
- Ability to assess market trends, competitor offerings, and technology developments to inform strategy.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the EOS Space Systems product strategy and roadmap.
- Balance short-term customer opportunities with long-term product investment.
- Assess existing products and identify opportunities for refresh, modernisation, repositioning, or retirement.
- Define future product concepts aligned to emerging space missions and customer priorities.
- Establish clear product lifecycle management processes.
- Develop deep understanding of defence, civil, intelligence, and commercial space markets.
- Engage directly with customers to understand operational challenges and future missions.
- Monitor market trends, competitor activity, emerging technologies, and evolving doctrines.
- Translate customer insights into product requirements and investment recommendations.
- Ensure EOS products remain aligned to evolving mission needs.
- Define product requirements, use cases, and value propositions.
- Collaborate with engineering and project teams to translate needs into deliverables.
- Prioritise features and investment based on value, alignment, cost, schedule, and risk.
- Support trade studies and investment decisions for future capability development.
- Develop business cases supporting product investment decisions.
- Define pricing, positioning, target markets, and differentiation.
- Support proposal development and customer campaigns.
- Work with sales and business development to drive product adoption.
Skills
Job description
We continually strive to help our workforce achieve their professional and personal goals, engaging them in challenging and inspiring projects.
EOS Space Systems develops and delivers advanced space domain awareness, space control, optical sensing, laser communication, and mission-critical technologies supporting civil, commercial, and defence customers globally.
With over 40 years of innovation, EOS has built a portfolio of world-class capabilities. As the market rapidly evolves, our success will depend not only on maintaining technical excellence, but ensuring our products remain relevant to emerging customer missions, operational concepts, threats, and commercial realities.
The Product Manager is responsible for developing and evolving the EOS Space Systems product portfolio to ensure our capabilities remain relevant, competitive, and commercially successful. Working across customers, engineering, strategy, and business development, the role will translate evolving defence, intelligence, civil, and commercial space mission needs into product strategies and roadmaps.
The Product Manager will drive investment decisions, identify new market opportunities, modernise existing offerings, and ensure EOS focuses on products that solve real customer problems, deliver mission outcomes, and create sustainable competitive advantage.
- Develop and maintain the EOS Space Systems product strategy and roadmap.
- Balance short-term customer opportunities with long-term product investment.
- Assess existing products and identify opportunities for refresh, modernisation, repositioning, or retirement.
- Define future product concepts aligned to emerging space missions and customer priorities.
- Establish clear product lifecycle management processes.
- Develop deep understanding of defence, civil, intelligence, and commercial space markets.
- Engage directly with customers to understand operational challenges, future missions, and capability gaps.
- Monitor global market trends, competitor activity, emerging technologies, and changing operational doctrines.
- Translate customer insights into product requirements and investment recommendations.
- Ensure EOS products remain aligned to evolving mission needs rather than historical requirements.
- Define product requirements, use cases, and value propositions.
- Work collaboratively with engineering and project teams to translate customer needs into deliverable capabilities.
- Prioritise features and investment based on customer value, strategic alignment, cost, schedule, and risk.
- Support trade studies and investment decisions for future capability development.
- Develop business cases supporting product investment decisions.
- Define pricing, positioning, target markets, and competitive differentiation.
- Support proposal development and customer campaigns.
- Work closely with sales and business development teams to drive product adoption.
- Demonstrated experience in Product Management, Product Strategy, Systems Engineering, Capability Development, or a related discipline.
- Experience working within the space, defence, aerospace, intelligence, or advanced technology sectors.
- Proven ability to develop and execute product roadmaps from concept through to market adoption.
- Experience translating customer requirements and operational needs into product requirements and development priorities.
- Strong understanding of product lifecycle management, including product development, sustainment, enhancement, and retirement.
- Experience engaging directly with customers and stakeholders to identify market opportunities, capability gaps, and emerging requirements.
- Demonstrated commercial acumen, including business case development, investment prioritisation, and market analysis.
- Experience working in cross-functional teams involving engineering, sales, business development, project delivery, and executive leadership.
- Ability to assess market trends, competitor offerings, and technology developments to inform product strategy.
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