Product Management Director, BlackSky Global

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field
• Minimum of ten years of experience working with advanced automation and data analytics
• Minimum of five years of product management experience
• Strong technical aptitude and experience building and scaling analytics products
• Strong business and technical acumen with top notch verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally approximately 20% of working days
• Previous experience working on GTM product launches with a specific focus on information, intelligence and insights derived from integrated data sources
• Ability to leverage outside-in customer-centric approach to identify unmet market opportunities then build offerings that solve customer problems with optimal product-market fit
• Ability to operate independently, effectively and decisively in a highly technical data-rich environment with minimal guidance and intellectual curiosity
• Ability to create cross-functional stakeholder alignment across a highly collaborative team environment by providing leadership through influence

Desirable

• The Director of Product Management for Analytics will drive sustainable business growth by crafting and executing BlackSky’s analytics product strategy through product specification, strategic roadmap management, product KPI formulation and tracking, product marketing, and direct support to the Sales and BD organization
• This role reports directly to the Vice President of Product Management
• Work within an industry-leading team of Product Managers to bring the BlackSky strategic vision to life through development and release of analytics products which deliver the highest collection persistence, lowest latency delivery for Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance capabilities available to mission partners
• Develop and maintain the analytics product specification and development roadmap
• Define business and technical KPI’s and report performance against those KPI’s on a regular basis
• Interact directly with internal and external stakeholders to gain feedback on product strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and risks as they relate to both the analytics business model and technical capabilities
• Form relationships with industry partners to support the complete Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TC-PED) needs of subscribers
• Publish white papers and present at industry events to promote awareness of the analytics products
• Support product sales opportunities through both remote engagements and some domestic and international travel to customer locations and industry events (approximately 20% travel)
• Collaborate with internal teams to create product marketing materials
• Other job-related duties as assigned