Senior Product Manager, Skydio
Cloud & Remote Ops
$125-160k
Plus stock options
More information about location
5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Drone manufacturer
Posted today
Drone manufacturer
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$125-160k
Plus stock options
More information about location
5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make the world more productive, creative, and safe with autonomous flight.
Role
Who you are
- 2–5+ years defining and delivering market-leading software products, including specific experience leading development of compelling user-facing software for complex, electronic hardware products. Drone experience is a plus but not required
- Ability to work autonomously with exceptional attention to detail and execution
- Experience wireframing and collaborating closely with UX design
- Familiarity with data modeling and API-driven architectures; able to reason about systems at scale
- Strong technical fluency and ability to work effectively across autonomy, firmware, and cloud engineering teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Deep curiosity and empathy for users managing real-world, operational complexity. Excitement to travel to customer sites and engage with end-users to gain a deep understanding of real problems and how Skydio can best solve them
What the job involves
- As a Senior Product Manager for Fleet Management, you'll lead the vision and execution for how customers manage large-scale drone deployments, ensuring visibility, fleet health, and compliance across distributed operations
- You’ll work across cloud services, APIs, and UX to create seamless, powerful tools for managing autonomous systems at scale
- Own and evolve the roadmap for Skydio’s Fleet Management capabilities spanning device observability and health monitoring, troubleshooting and support tooling, and general customer organization administration (user, data, settings, and integration management)
- Drive feature definition and prioritization in close collaboration with design, engineering, and go-to-market teams
- Wireframe and validate UX flows that make complex workflows simple and actionable
- Contribute to discussions on backend data models, system architecture, and API design with engineering
- Engage with customers, prospects, and internal stakeholders to understand core business problems to develop and iterate user personas and their use case-specific requirements
- Communicate plans and progress clearly across stakeholders; follow through to launch and adoption
- Collaborate with marketing, support, and customer success to deliver impactful product releases
Our take
A leader in autonomous flight, Skydio builds drones that can track and film targets while avoiding obstacles. Its products have a wide range of applications, most notably for businesses that need to undertake inspections in unsafe places. The drones are also valuable to search and rescue efforts, police forces, and the US army.
Backed by a range of top investors and strategic partners (including Andreesen Horowitz, Levitate Capital, and Next 47) Skydio sets itself apart from its competitors by marketing its products predominantly to businesses. With technology such as 3D scanning and a 360-degree superzoom mode, its drones have a wide range of applications and functionality.
The company raised funding in 2023, which has boosted its valuation to over $2 billion. It has since focussed on R&D, developing and launching the X10 model which is designed for first responders and the military, as well as enhancing its remote control and thermal imaging capabilities. As the largest American drone company, there is no reason Skydio shouldn't remain a key industry actor for years to come.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2023
$230m
SERIES E
Feb 2021
$171m
SERIES D
Total funding: $571m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Western Hills, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Adam Bry
(CEO)Having studied at MIT, they spent a year and a half at Google as a Software Engineer. They left this position in February 2014 to co-found Skydio.
Abraham Bachrach
(CTO)Earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and was a Software Engineer for Google's Project Wing.
Matt Donahoe
(CXO)Previously a Research Assistant at MIT Media Lab and a Mobile Engineer at Pocket Gems.
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