Mission Planning Product Manager: Scale Complex Space Ops

Quindar; Arvada (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Comprehensive health insurance for you

4-day company offsite

4% 401(k) matching

Job summary

Quindar is seeking a technically minded Product Manager to lead the evolution of Mission Planning across our Plan and Portal products. You will own how missions translate operational objectives into executable plans, from scheduling spacecraft activities to coordinating requests between mission teams and stakeholders.

You will collaborate with engineering, design, and customer-facing teams to define requirements, prioritize features, and drive end-to-end delivery while maintaining user empathy

Qualifications

• 3+ years of product management experience, preferably in aerospace, schedule optimization, autonomous vehicle operations, or complex technical SaaS products.
• Proven ability to own product roadmaps and deliver complex features end-to-end.
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance required.
• Demonstrated 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, computer science, aerospace, business, or related field.
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, evolving environment with high ownership.

Responsibilities

• Strategy & Vision: Own the roadmap and long-term vision for Mission Planning across Quindar's Plan and Portal products. Define product requirements, user stories, success metrics, and priorities that align customer needs with Quindar's broader mission operations strategy.
• Execution: Collaborate closely with engineering and design to turn operational problems into intuitive, scalable product capabilities. Participate in technical and architecture discussions and make thoughtful tradeoffs between immediate customer needs, usability, and long-term product health.
• User Understanding: Develop deep empathy for mission operators, payload operators, mission planners, and other users by conducting research, shadowing workflows, analyzing operational data, and synthesizing feedback from customer-facing teams.
• Automation & Scale: Identify opportunities to move customers from manual planning and coordination toward increasingly automated and constraint-aware workflows. Ensure planning capabilities can scale from individual spacecraft to large fleets and increasingly complex mission architectures.
• Planning & Scheduling: Evolve how operators plan spacecraft activities, ground contacts, payload operations, and other mission activities. Develop capabilities that account for operational constraints, resource availability, dependencies, priorities, and changing mission conditions.
• Multi-Party Mission Operations: Define workflows that enable mission operators, payload operators, customers, and other stakeholders to coordinate effectively while maintaining appropriate operational boundaries and permissions.
• Metrics & Iteration: Define and track measures of planning effectiveness, including planning time, scheduling success, operator intervention, request turnaround, utilization, and adoption of automated workflows.
• Leadership: Serve as the go-to expert on mission planning workflows, scheduling, payload operations, and the relevant competitive landscape.
• Collaboration: Drive alignment across engineering, product management, design, customer success, program teams, and leadership.

Skills

Product management

Roadmaps

Cross-functional leadership

Scheduling & planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in geospatial, computer science, aerospace, business

Job description

Quindar is seeking a technically minded Product Manager to lead the evolution of Mission Planning across our Plan and Portal products. You will own how missions translate operational objectives into executable plans, from scheduling spacecraft activities to coordinating requests between mission teams and stakeholders.

You will collaborate with engineering, design, and customer-facing teams to define requirements, prioritize features, and drive end-to-end delivery while maintaining user empathy