Hybrid Director, Product Management – Grade P13

at SES Space & Defense

• Job title: Director, Product Management – Grade P13
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Reston, United States

About the role

• Director, Product Management leading product development for satellite communications at SES Space & Defense. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet customer requirements and market needs.

Responsibilities

• Meet with customers to identify user desires, pain points, latent needs, and motivations, to be translated into product features and user stories.
• Investigate opportunities for hosted payloads and augmentations on our future constellation updates.
• Identify requirements and features for our next generation user terminals, which may support LEO, MEO, and GEO satellite connections and tracking.
• Translate market research into detailed, actionable product requirement documents (PRDs), including epics, features, and user scenarios.
• Analyze direct and indirect competitors to understand their strengths and weaknesses of product features and market positioning to identify opportunities for differentiation.
• Use data-driven insights to rank potential product features based on market demand, technical feasibility, differentiation and alignment with business goals.
• Work with cross functional departments through the development process to create Minimum Viable Products as precursors to a final product offering.
• Employ Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) or prototypes to gather feedback from potential users, testing usability and functionality before full-scale development.
• For hosted payloads, user terminals or other hardware development, track the requirements, testing, and validation from cradle to grave to ensure full compliance to the product needs.
• Participate in the development and management of annual IR&D/CAPEX and OPEX budgets targeted toward achievement of objectives that create new revenue or drive additional revenue for the business.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer & Electronic Systems, Computer Engineering, Software Development, or related field required.
• Extensive knowledge in the field of satellite communications, satellite ground systems, satellite user terminals, as well as related operations.
• 12+ years of progressive experience in government SATCOM.
• Experience with gathering use cases, developing vendor requirements, development, testing and deployment preferred.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 suite, as well as ADO, Salesforce, Deltek Costpoint, and related software applications.
• Ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance required.
• Active TS/SCI clearance preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Paid time off
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development