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Salary: USD 171,000 - 194,000 / annual
LeoLabs is building a living map of activity in space through a proprietary global radar network and AI-enabled analytics platform. The company collects millions of measurements daily on over 25,000 objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) and serves commercial and government customers with space domain awareness, space traffic management, and national security solutions.
You will own the product and business strategy for LeoLabs' Space Domain Awareness (SDA) software product, a core offering that transforms radar data and space-domain information into operational intelligence, analytics, alerts, and mission workflows. This role sits at the intersection of customers, market needs, product strategy, engineering, and business objectives.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning product vision, roadmap, market positioning, prioritization, packaging, and execution for the SDA software product
- Developing deep understanding of customers, users, missions, workflows, operational challenges, and buying behavior
- Working directly with commercial and government customers, operators, analysts, and subject-matter experts to identify unmet needs and validate opportunities
- Identifying and prioritizing market segments, use cases, and customer problems where the product can create mission impact and business growth
- Translating customer and business requirements into clear product requirements, capabilities, and user experiences
- Partnering closely with Engineering throughout the product lifecycle from discovery through development, testing, release, and iteration
- Making product investment decisions based on customer value, strategic differentiation, revenue potential, technical feasibility, and company priorities
- Defining how SDA capabilities are packaged and positioned for customer clarity and adoption
- Partnering with Sales, Business Development, Marketing, and Customer Success on customer engagements, demonstrations, proposals, and go-to-market activities
- Helping shape pricing, packaging, and commercial models in partnership with product leadership
- Maintaining and communicating a clear product roadmap with alignment across Product, Engineering, Sales, Business Development, Customer Success, Operations, and leadership
- Defining and monitoring product and business metrics for adoption, usage, customer outcomes, retention, expansion, and revenue impact
- Leading product launches and internal enablement for customer-facing teams
- Evaluating competitors, adjacent markets, emerging technologies, and changes in the space and national-security environment
- Distinguishing between individual customer requests and repeatable market needs to ensure scalable product evolution
- Helping establish and improve product management practices as LeoLabs scales its product organization
The ideal candidate is a strong product thinker with both commercial and technical judgment, experience in the space industry or closely related aerospace/national-security environments, comfort engaging with sophisticated commercial and government customers, and ability to translate complex mission problems into clear product and business direction.
**Requirements:**
- 5+ years of product management experience, preferably with software, data, analytics, enterprise, or other highly technical products
- Professional experience working in the space industry, or in a closely related aerospace, defense, or national-security environment, with demonstrated understanding of space missions, customers, operators, or technologies
- Demonstrated experience owning products or major product areas from market discovery and product strategy through development, launch, adoption, and iteration
- Strong business judgment and ability to connect product decisions to customer outcomes, competitive differentiation, revenue opportunities, and company strategy
- Strong customer orientation and experience engaging directly with customers to uncover needs, validate opportunities, and translate feedback into scalable products
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical, operational, or customer problems into clear product direction and priorities
- Experience working closely with software engineering teams and technical leaders throughout the product development lifecycle
- Ability to make informed prioritization decisions across competing customer requests, business opportunities, strategic priorities, and technical constraints
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to communicate effectively with engineers, customers, executives, operators, and technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including ability to use quantitative and qualitative information to make product decisions
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment where customer needs, technology, and market conditions evolve quickly
- Curiosity and willingness to develop deeper expertise in complex space, technical, and mission domains
- Ability to operate with high degree of ownership and independently drive product decisions while building alignment across multiple organizations
- Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally to engage with customers, partners, and internal teams
**Preferred Qualifications:**
- Experience building and commercializing products for government, aerospace, defense, intelligence, or other highly technical markets
- Direct experience with Space Domain Awareness, Space Situational Awareness, Space Traffic Management, satellite operations, orbital analysis, command and control, or related space missions
- Experience working with satellite operators, space mission operators, U.S. government space organizations, allied defense organizations, or commercial space companies
- Familiarity with orbital mechanics, tracking data, conjunction assessment, maneuver detection, satellite behaviors, or other space-domain concepts
- Experience supporting government acquisition processes, strategic pursuits, proposals, demonstrations, pilots, or customer evaluations
- Experience working with data-intensive products, APIs, analytics platforms, event detection, visualization tools, or operational decision-support systems
- Experience defining product packaging, pricing, positioning, or go-to-market strategy
- Experience working directly with government and commercial customers in complex enterprise sales environments
- Technical background or demonstrated experience working closely with highly technical engineering, data science, scientific, or aerospace teams
- Experience working in markets where customer requirements may be ambiguous, procurement cycles are complex, and product managers must identify common product needs across multiple customer missions
- Active U.S. Government security clearance, or ability and willingness to obtain and maintain one
