Director, Product Management

Summary

Join BlackSky, a real-time intelligence company, as the Director of Product Management for Analytics. You will drive sustainable business growth by defining and executing the analytics product strategy, encompassing product specification, roadmap management, KPI formulation, product marketing, and sales support. This role reports to the VP of Product Management and offers remote work options for qualified candidates. Responsibilities include developing and maintaining product specifications and roadmaps, defining and tracking KPIs, gathering stakeholder feedback, collaborating with industry partners, publishing white papers, supporting sales efforts (including travel), and creating marketing materials. The position requires a Bachelor's degree, 10+ years of experience in data analytics, and 5+ years in product management. US citizenship is required for security clearance eligibility.

Requirements

• 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
• Must be eligible to obtain a US clearance; this requires US citizenship

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

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

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