Principal Product Manager – SAR Data Products

ICEYE; Herndon (VA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible PTO

Friendly work environment

Extra perks

Job summary

ICEYE is seeking a Principal Product Manager for SAR Data Products to guide cross-functional teams from concept to release. You will own the vision for ICEYE's commercial SAR offerings and drive product strategy, roadmaps, and go-to-market collaboration across engineering, sales, and customer delivery.

A strong technical leadership background and experience with SAR data are essential. You will engage with domestic and international customers, quantify value, and influence the roadmap while

Qualifications

• US citizen with an active TS/SCI clearance.
• Master's degree in a relevant field (additional years of experience may substitute).
• Minimum 10 years of related experience in product development.
• Demonstrated product or program management experience with complex/technical products.
• Experience with SAR data and applications (space-based SAR).

Responsibilities

• Own the vision and strategy for our commercial SAR product offerings.
• Lead the full product lifecycle from evolution to release.
• Translate customer use cases into technical requirements and ROI.
• Maintain ICEYE US SAR product roadmap with engineering and affiliate PMs.
• Identify product gaps and prioritize solutions for the roadmap.
• Lead product launch checklists and coordinate go-live readiness.
• Generate and maintain product information for stakeholders and customers.
• Coordinate with Marketing to support product marketing strategies.
• Support proposal development based on capabilities.
• Coordinate with US regulatory teams as needed.
• Support customer adoption and education of current and future products.

Skills

Product management

SAR data

Cross-functional collaboration

Roadmap development

Prioritization

Education

Master's degree

Job description

Principal Product Manager - SAR Data Products

At ICEYE, we design, build and operate the largest fleet of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites in the world. Using advanced technology, our constellation collects topographical data about any location on Earth, day or night, through any weather conditions.

Headquartered in Southern California, our customers are society's heroes - intelligence professionals, warfighters, first responders, and scientific researchers. As a trusted mission partner, the United States and its allies depend on us for critical information when it matters most.

Role Description

We're looking for a confident leader who can guide cross-functional teams in the creation of market facing products that meet customer needs and grow ICEYE's market share.

This role involves significant collaboration with ICEYE US and affiliate product management, engineering, sales and customer delivery teams through all aspects of the product development and delivery lifecycle.

Through that collaboration, this role is responsible for establishing and delivering world class SAR constellation access and SAR data products through an intuitive system that ensures customers can easily interact with the constellation and integrate our data and capabilities into existing workflows and analytics platforms. This role is highly focused on providing value to both domestic and international government agencies.

Active customer interaction and advocacy will be needed to understand and codify requirements, help to manage relationships with representatives within the customer’s organization, drive product improvements and competitive advantage for ICEYE US. The Product Manager will play the lead role in quantifying customer value to the product development organization, informing our overall product roadmap.

This person should be a highly technical leader with a proven ability to establish the product strategy for the full lifecycle of a product, from concept to release.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of the Vision and Strategy for our commercial SAR product offerings
• Leads the full product lifecycle for our SAR line of business which includes evolution of the product offering, guiding development prioritization, and product release.
• Fully understands customer use cases and creates product strategy that describes technical requirements, operational impacts and ROI
• Develops/maintains the ICEYE US SAR product roadmap, in collaboration with US engineering and affiliate Product management
• Deeply understands the products and capability shortfalls; recommends and prioritizes solutions to the US and affiliate Product organization leadership to inform future roadmap decisions
• Leads product launch checklist(s) and coordinates with the respective teams on development execution to ensure go-live readiness and high product reliability
• Generates and maintains product information and documentation for internal ICEYE US stakeholders and external customers
• Coordinate with ICEYE US and affiliate Marketing leads to support and influence product marketing strategies
• Supports proposal development based on current and future capabilities.
• Coordinates with the US regulatory teams as needed
• Supports customer adoption and education of current and future products offerings

Required Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. citizen with an active U.S. Government security clearance TS/SCI
• Master's degree in a relevant field. Additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree.
• Minimum of 10 years of related experience, preferably in a product development organization
• Demonstrated experience in product or program management including the release or delivery of complex or highly technical products
• Demonstrated experience with SAR data and applications including, space based SAR collection capabilities, SAR and InSAR analysis, or the utilization of these products in real-world applications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience defining the Vision and Strategy for commercial or government focused product offerings
• Product Management experience including roadmap development, prioritization across multiple internal and external stakeholders, release planning, and execution
• Experience with product launches including support of GTM strategy development

Pay Range and Compensation Package

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $190k- $230k depending on experience
• Other benefits include health coverage, flexible PTO, a friendly work environment, plus extra fun perks!

Physical Requirements

This position primarily works in an office environment. It requires the ability to sit or stand for long periods of time and frequent walking. Daily use of a computer, phone, office equipment and other computing and digital devices is required. Some travel may be necessary - the ability to travel by car, plane, train, bus, vessel, or metro, operate a motor vehicle and maintain a valid Driver's License and/or effectively navigate public transportation is required. While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee must be able to read and respond to inter-office communications as well as effectively participate in meetings. The employee is often required to sit and use their hands or fingers, to lift up to 50 lbs., pull, push, carry, handle, or feel. The employee is required to carry, handle items, reach with arms and hands, to stoop, kneel, or crouch; talk, or hear. Mental demands may require prolonged concentration, reading comprehension, understanding and interpretation of concepts, ideas, and philosophies. The physical demands of the position described herein are essential functions of the job and employees must be able to successfully perform these tasks for extended periods. Reasonable accommodations may be made for those individuals with real or perceived disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job described unless such accommodations would cause ICEYE US an undue burden.

EEO Statement

ICEYE US is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law.