Staff Technical Product Manager, Capella Space

• You are highly technical and willing to dive deep with engineers within and outside of Capella
• You are a curator who knows how to take complex technical challenges and shape them into simple solutions for our customers
• You are a curious learner who seeks to be a strong subject matter expert for the products that you own
• You can move ideas from early product discovery through to definition, execution, and go-to-market
• 8+ years of product management experience, ideally with technical platforms, APIs, or infrastructure products
• Proven expertise in DaaS or SaaS environments, with deep knowledge of multi-tenant architecture and cloud-native systems
• Strong background in B2B, B2G, or B2M enterprise software, including APIs, web applications, and mobile platforms
• Deep understanding of RESTful APIs, authentication protocols, and API lifecycle management
• Proficiency with tools like Postman/Bruno, GitHub, GitLab, Jira, and Confluence
• Collaboration-focused approach, working with engineering and customer-facing teams to assess feasibility and drive adoption of product features and capabilities
• Experience in platform strategy and roadmap development, prioritization across multiple internal and external stakeholders, and release planning and execution
• Excellent communication, writing, and cross-functional collaboration skills—particularly adept at bridging the 'what' and the 'how' between business objectives and technical implementation
• Customer-centric mindset, with a strong ability to translate customer challenges into actionable product direction for engineering teams
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; MBA or equivalent experience is a plus

Desirable

• We are seeking a Staff Technical Product Manager (TPM) to lead the strategy, development, and growth of our Platform and API products that underpin our Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) offerings
• This is a highly cross-functional role that bridges engineering, architecture, business, and customer success teams to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable APIs and core platform capabilities
• The product management team at Capella Space is focused on delivering the value of high-resolution SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) to customers across commercial verticals and government organizations, domestically and internationally
• Whether their needs are reliable revisit, understanding change, or customized analytics that leverage the power of SAR, the product management team meets our customers where they work and delivers information that helps them achieve their business and mission objectives
• Core to our DaaS business, the product management team’s mission is to massively expand the usefulness and adoption of SAR data for a variety of applications from security to commerce to environmental monitoring
• The problems we solve stretch from the ground to space, ensuring that our customers get the data they need, when they need it, in the easiest way possible so that they can do amazing things that we couldn’t have even imagined
• You will be responsible for the core data platform that both human imagery analysts and software systems use to solve a diverse set of problems
• Success in this role requires a deep understanding of our customers’ workflows and identifying how to rapidly integrate and improve our data platform with their process processes
• Contribute to the vision, strategy, and development of Capella’s data platform and APIs, ensuring alignment with the needs of government and commercial customers
• Partner closely with product managers, product owners, engineering, customer engagement teams, and marketing to build solutions that drive positive business impact
• Innovate by leveraging a deep understanding of Capella’s capabilities, industry standards, data platforms, APIs, and customer needs to anticipate market opportunities and deliver new, forward-thinking solutions
• Enhance and optimize a comprehensive data platform that enhances the usability of SAR data and contributes to industry growth
• Evaluate technical tradeoffs, ensuring feasibility, scalability, and cost optimization in product and platform decisions
• Align cross-functional teams, keeping stakeholders informed and ensuring collaboration between engineering, UX, and business teams
• Improve API and web application usability and experience, driving clear documentation, onboarding support, and ecosystem engagement
• Define and track system performance & reliability KPIs, ensuring high availability, low latency, and seamless scalability
• Maintain security & compliance, ensuring regulatory standards
• Lead integration strategy, managing third-party APIs, SDKs, and interoperability across platforms
• Optimize operational costs, working with cloud infrastructure providers and internal teams to improve hosting efficiency
• Optimize the platform to improve SAR tasking, collection, processing and dissemination capabilities to improve capacity, latency, security and other key drivers for customers