Technical Product Management Director, BlackSky Global

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or the physical sciences
• At least 10 years of experience working in either a scientific, engineering, or technical product management role focused on the exploitation/analysis of rastered data
• Experience in the analysis and exploitation of satellite imagery
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and an ability to articulate technical concepts clearly and succinctly
• Comfortable with a common scripting and data analysis language (eg Python)
• Prior experience with government procurement and capture process (both defining the technical solution and pricing it)
• Experience bringing analytic products and solutions to markets/customers
• Proven track record of translating customer problems into high-margin revenue through scalable solutions
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a US security clearance

Desirable

• Build a thriving, ever-expanding, and high-margin analytics segment by defining and delivering analytics products that solve scalable customer problems
• Engage with key customers to understand their mission needs, strategic direction, structural incentives, and purchasing mechanics; use this information to ensure that BlackSky products are impactful, cutting edge, purchasable, and usable
• Define and evolve the analytics roadmap in partnership with Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Finance, and Global Services to unlock the value of ultra-high revisit monitoring and tactical ISR from space
• Define winning technical and price combinations for critical opportunities in partnership with Engineering, Finance, Sales, and Programs
• Drive increasing margins into analytics products through effective cross-functional communication, operational efficiency, and compelling value-added services
• Support the evolution of efficient and agile product management, development, sustainment, and end-of-life processes
• Support Marketing to build compelling sales tools/narratives for analytics products
• Support Engineering to define, build, test, validate, and sustain analytics products
• Other job-related duties as assigned