Space Systems Product Manager Hybrid Mountain View

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

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.