Manager, Product Insights

BlackSky • Herndon, VA

1d • $165,000 - $205,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

BlackSky is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead its newly established Product Insights team. This team is responsible for accelerating the delivery of high-value insight products directly through the BlackSky platform, enabling customers to derive value from BlackSky imagery without relying on multiple external vendors. The team will bridge this gap by designing, building, integrating, and operating scalable product pipelines that make advanced analytics available natively within BlackSky. The role involves integrating and operating products from partners or new analytic flows, developing platform capabilities to host, orchestrate, and disseminate BlackSky products, and ensuring the reliability, consistency, and quality of insight products delivered to customers. Collaboration across imagery, platform, partner engineering, and product teams is key to accelerating product time-to-market.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• A minimum of eight (8) years of professional experience in software engineering, including experience building or operating complex distributed, autonomous, or mission‑critical systems.
• At least two (2) years of experience leading engineering teams as a people manager or technical lead with formal leadership responsibilities.
• Minimum of two years of experience managing or leading high-performing engineering teams, including hiring, capacity planning, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Demonstrated experience designing and building scalable production software solutions and architectures.
• Hands on experience with cloud services such as AWS EKS, S3, EC2, Aurora / RDS, SQS, SNS, Batch, etc.
• Excellent communication skills and expert at bridging the gap between highly technical teams and non-technical business units.
• Some programs this role supports may require the candidate to be a U.S. citizen.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree (or higher) in a relevant technical field.
• Ten or more years of professional engineering experience, including leadership of teams responsible for high-availability or mission-critical software.
• Two or more years of experience in the geospatial industry.
• Knowledge and experience with MLOps and DataOps as a practice.
• Experience with distributed compute environments such as Kubernetes and Dask.
• Strong Python or Golang proficiency and experience writing production software for data ETL, micro-services, geospatial, data analytics, and/or cloud deployment.
• Knowledge of system safety, fault tolerance, redundancy, and recovery strategies in autonomous or operationally sensitive environments.
• Proven track record partnering with Product, Sales, and Executive leadership to align roadmaps with business goals.
• Prior experience aligning engineering execution with both commercial production SLAs and program‑specific requirements, deliverables, or milestones.

Responsibilities

• Build, develop, and retain a high-performing engineering team focused on product hosting, partner product integration, and platform-based product delivery.
• Set technical strategy and roadmap for the Product Insights team, ensuring the platform can scale to support a diverse portfolio of internal and partner insight products.
• Lead design and implementation of new product hosting architectures, including pipeline execution, versioning, reliability, and monitoring.
• Collaborate with product, platform, AI/analytics, imagery, and partner engineering teams to define requirements, align priorities, and accelerate product readiness.
• Identify and remove cross-team roadblocks related to product ingestion, data availability, platform constraints, or partner integration.
• Maintain deep technical involvement through code reviews, architectural decisions, and occasional hands-on development.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, technical excellence, and strong ownership of product reliability and customer impact.
• Proactively identify risks, bottlenecks, and opportunities to accelerate product delivery, especially where new flows or partner integrations require novel approaches.
• Support sprint planning, team capacity management, and roadmap development in partnership with product leadership.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager