Product Manager, Mission Planning & Automation

EVONA; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

EVONA is partnering with a fast-growing space technology company to hire a technically minded Product Manager who will own a core mission planning product used by operators to schedule activities and manage constraints. You will inherit an established product and drive toward more automation while collaborating with operators, payload teams and customers.

You will shape the future direction of an emerging product area focused on payload operations and cross-party mission coordination, visiting

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Product Management experience within autonomous systems, aerospace, space technology or another complex technical environment.
• Experience owning and maturing an existing software product.
• Strong understanding of scheduling, mission planning, resource allocation or similarly constraint-heavy operational problems.
• Comfortable working closely with highly technical engineering teams.
• Strong product discovery skills with the ability to turn complex user workflows into intuitive experiences.
• Experience balancing immediate customer requirements against longer-term product strategy.
• Able to operate effectively in areas where the product direction is not yet fully defined.
• Strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Must meet applicable U.S. export-control requirements and be able to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap and vision for mission planning and scheduling capabilities.
• Take ownership of an existing product and determine how it should evolve based on customer feedback, usage and market needs.
• Drive the transition from manual planning processes towards increasingly automated, constraint-aware scheduling.
• Work closely with spacecraft operators, mission planners, payload teams and customers to understand complex operational workflows.
• Translate scheduling challenges, dependencies, priorities and operational constraints into intuitive product capabilities.
• Partner closely with software engineering and product design from discovery through delivery.
• Contribute to technical and architectural discussions and make informed product trade-offs.
• Help define the future direction of an emerging product supporting payload and multi-party mission operations.
• Define product success metrics and use customer feedback and data to continuously improve the platform.
• Visit customers and represent the product at relevant industry conferences.

Skills

Product management

Aerospace domain knowledge

Stakeholder management

Discovery

Technical fluency

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Job description

EVONA is partnering with a fast-growing space technology company to hire a technically minded Product Manager who will own a core mission planning product used by operators to schedule activities and manage constraints. You will inherit an established product and drive toward more automation while collaborating with operators, payload teams and customers.

You will shape the future direction of an emerging product area focused on payload operations and cross-party mission coordination, visiting