Technical Product Leader — ML Fire Forecasting Platform

Sarah Smith Fund; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Skyward Wildfire Technologies is hiring a Technical Product Manager to own the Vista platform – translating research into reliable, scalable products. You will work across atmospheric science, ML, software, and field operations, coordinating deadlines in a fast‑paced environment.

You will lead cross‑functional teams, engage with public sector and B2B partners, and drive end‑to‑end delivery from problem framing to launch and iteration.

Qualifications

• Product management experience in an early‑stage or fast‑moving startup environment.
• Hands‑on project management experience coordinating complex, multidisciplinary technical work
• A track record of shipping data intensive, machine learning, or technically complex products
• Experience owning a roadmap from problem definition through launch, adoption, and iteration
• Technical fluency across machine learning models, data pipelines, APIs, software architecture, and systems integrations
• Experience translating ambiguous scientific, technical, or customer requirements into executable work
• B2B product experience, ideally with enterprise, regulated, infrastructure, or asset intensive customers
• Experience conducting customer discovery and distinguishing scalable market needs from one‑off feature requests
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Comfort operating with broad ownership in an early‑stage company

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for Vista
• Translate scientific and machine learning research into product requirements, project plans, milestones, and release schedules
• Coordinate work across science, engineering, software, operations, and commercial teams
• Manage scope, timelines, dependencies, risks, and competing priorities
• Pressure test model outputs, validation approaches, product assumptions, and operational trade‑offs
• Lead product discovery with wildfire agencies and prospective customers
• Help turn early pilots and customer‑specific deployments into a repeatable, scalable product
• Define the integrations, APIs, reporting, reliability, and onboarding capabilities required by enterprise customers
• Communicate progress, risks, roadmap decisions, and trade‑offs to leadership and external partners
• Maintain focus and momentum as priorities shift

Job description

Skyward Wildfire Technologies is hiring a Technical Product Manager to own the Vista platform – translating research into reliable, scalable products. You will work across atmospheric science, ML, software, and field operations, coordinating deadlines in a fast‑paced environment.

You will lead cross‑functional teams, engage with public sector and B2B partners, and drive end‑to‑end delivery from problem framing to launch and iteration.