Director, Product Management

Summary

Join BlackSky, a real-time intelligence company, as the Director, Product Management for Assured Access Subscriptions. You will drive business growth by executing the product strategy, managing the roadmap, defining KPIs, and supporting sales. This role requires strong business and technical acumen, geospatial intelligence experience, and the ability to obtain a US clearance. While based in Herndon, VA or Seattle, WA is preferred, remote work in certain states is possible. The position involves collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, product marketing, and some travel. BlackSky offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, paid time off, retirement benefits, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field
• Minimum of ten years of geospatial intelligence industry experience
• Minimum of five years of product management experience
• Must be eligible to obtain a US clearance; this requires US citizenship
• 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 multiple hybrid input 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
• Create cross-functional stakeholder alignment across a matrixed highly collaborative team environment by providing leadership through influence

Responsibilities

• Work within an industry-leading team of Product Managers to bring the BlackSky strategic vision to life through development and release of products which deliver the highest persistence, lowest latency commercial Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance capabilities available to mission partners
• Develop and maintain the Assured Access subscription product specification and development roadmap
• Define Assured Access subscription 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 Assured Access 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 presentations at industry events to promote awareness of the Assured Access product
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within an international sales and business development organization
• Advanced graduate degree or MBA
• Military and/or intelligence community work experience
• Active US security clearance, secret or top secret
• Experience managing products at a startup or rapidly innovating public company with an entrepreneurial spirit, strong business acumen and passion for disruptive technologies

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life and AD&D, voluntary life and AD&D insurance
• BlackSky pays 100% of employee-only premiums for medical, dental and vision and contributes $100/month for out-of-pocket expenses!
• 15 days of PTO, 11 Company holidays, four Floating Holidays (pro-rated based on hire date), one day of paid volunteerism leave per year, parental leave and more
• 401(k) pre-tax and Roth deferral options with employer match
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs
• Employer matching donations
• Professional development
• Mac or PC? Your choice!
• Awesome swag