Product Manager

Climactic; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grant

Medical, dental and vision insurance

401k retirement plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Muon Space is seeking a Product Manager to own a defined product slice within our hardware-plus-software space systems. You’ll oversee discovery, requirements, prioritization, and release coordination, with mentorship from senior PMs, in a hybrid role on-site in Mountain View, CA.

You will partner across software, hardware, and operations, conduct customer interviews, instrument product usage, and guide roadmap decisions to deliver mission-critical data products.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of Product Management experience shipping technical products.
• Translate customer and user needs into clear requirements and drive them to release.
• Strong written communication for PRDs, memos, release notes, and status updates.
• Comfort working with engineers on technical trade-offs; read API specs and ask questions.
• Strong execution instincts: backlog, release trajectory, and escalation when needed.

Responsibilities

• Own the backlog, PRDs, and release planning for your product area; ensure clear requirements and acceptance criteria for engineering.
• Partner with engineering leads on scoping, sequencing, and trade-offs within each release.
• Run customer interviews, synthesize insights, and turn them into concrete requirements and prioritization.
• Contribute to productization decisions and maintain clean configuration/change management.
• Collaborate with software, hardware, and operations as a strong day‑to‑day product partner; support GTM with docs and demos.

Skills

Product management

Technical fluency

Stakeholder communication

Requirements gathering

Prioritization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or related technical field

Job description

About The Role

Muon Space is hiring a Product Manager to own a defined slice of one of our larger product areas — for example, a specific capability within the spacecraft platform, part of the bits‑to‑ground data path, a workflow on our on‑board high‑performance compute stack, or a feature set tied to one of our instruments. You’ll run the day‑to‑day product work for that area: discovery, requirements, prioritization, release coordination, and the feedback loop with customers and internal mission teams.

Reporting to a Director of Product or the VP of Product and working closely with senior PMs on the team, this is a Level 4 IC role. We’re looking for someone with strong product fundamentals, real technical fluency, and the drive to grow their craft inside a hardware‑plus‑software environment. You will have meaningful ownership of your area from day one, with mentorship and air cover from more senior PMs on the decisions that extend beyond its boundaries. This position is hybrid and requires working on‑site in our Mountain View, CA office three days per week.

Responsibilities

• Area execution
  • Own the backlog, PRDs, and release planning for your product area; keep requirements, acceptance criteria, and open questions clear enough that engineering can execute without ambiguity.
  • Partner with engineering leads on scoping, sequencing, and trade‑offs within each release; help the team make good calls on what to cut, defer, or simplify.
  • Track delivery, surface risks early, and keep stakeholders informed with crisp written updates.
  • Contribute to the roadmap for your area under the direction of the responsible senior PM or the VP of Product, bringing data, customer input, and your own point of view.
• Discovery & customer understanding
  • Run customer and user interviews (external customers, internal mission teams, partners), synthesize what you hear, and turn it into concrete requirements and prioritization input.
  • Instrument your product, track usage and performance, and use evidence rather than opinion when making the case for what to build next.
  • Follow won/lost deals and customer escalations relevant to your area; feed structured observations back to the product and engineering teams.
• Productization support
  • Contribute to productization decisions in your area — capability packaging, tiering, SLAs, documentation, deprecation — in partnership with the senior PM who owns the broader area.
  • Keep configuration control and change management clean for anything your area ships into production.
• Cross‑functional partnership
  • Work closely with engineering across software, hardware, and operations as a strong day‑to‑day product partner.
  • Support Go‑To‑Market teams with technical documentation, sales enablement material, RFP input, and customer demonstrations for your area.
  • Partner with Marketing on messaging and content tied to your area when needed.
  • Collaborate with the broader PM team on cross‑area dependencies, shared conventions, and roadmap alignment.

Required Qualifications

• 3–5 years of Product Management experience shipping technical products — ideally spanning software, hardware, or data systems.
• Demonstrated ability to translate customer and user needs into clear requirements and acceptance criteria, and to drive them through to release.
• Strong written communication: PRDs, decision memos, release notes, and status updates that are clear enough to act on.
• Comfort working closely with engineers on technical trade‑offs; able to read enough of a design doc or an API spec to ask the right questions.
• Strong execution instincts: can run a backlog, keep a release on track, and know when to elevate.
• Curiosity and willingness to grow inside a deep‑tech domain; receptive to feedback and coaching from more senior PMs.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related technical field.

Nice‑to‑have Skills

• Exposure to remote sensing, geospatial, Earth observation, or adjacent deep‑tech data domains.
• Familiarity with space systems and LEO constellations — spacecraft platforms, instruments, ground segment, or satellite data pipelines.
• Experience with configuration control, change management, or safety‑critical / mission‑critical product environments.
• Prior experience in a startup or high‑growth technology environment.

Salary

The salary range for this role is $190,000 - $210,000, plus a competitive equity grant and comprehensive benefits package. Final compensation will be determined based on skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location as assessed during the interview process.

About Muon Space

Founded in 2021, Muon Space is an end‑to‑end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations delivering mission‑critical data. Our revolutionary, integrated technology stack enables customers to optimize every dimension of their missions for faster time‑to‑orbit and superior constellation remote sensing performance. Our state‑of‑the‑art facility in the heart of Silicon Valley is optimized for manufacturing spacecraft and rapid, flexible payload integration at scale. From climate monitoring to national security, Muon Space is dedicated to delivering Earth Intelligence for a safer and more resilient world.

Taking Care of Our Team

At Muon salary is only part of our total compensation package. In addition to salary, full‑time employees receive equity compensation as well as benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k retirement plan, short & long term disability and life insurance. We also offer three weeks paid vacation for new employees, along with 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time and paid parental leave.

Our mission embraces the entire planet and we believe our team should too. Muon is dedicated to creating a diverse and dynamic company and workforce. We believe in equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or gender identity. We value diversity in the workplace, and that starts with our applicants. We encourage you to apply, even if you don’t check all the boxes, and we look forward to reviewing your application! In addition, if you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know.

Muon is currently registered and able to hire in the following states: AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, IA, ID, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX, VT, VA, WA.

ITAR/EAR Requirements

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C.
1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C.

• 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. The Company may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.