Product Manager

Katalyst Space Technologies • Broomfield, CO

2d • $120,000 - $170,000

About The Position

Katalyst is hiring a Product Manager to guide product strategy and execution for its dynamic space operations capabilities. The role defines and maintains roadmaps aligned with company strategy, customer needs, and market opportunities; owns the product backlog; translates customer and stakeholder input into requirements and user stories; and balances priorities, commitments, technical constraints, and mission needs.

The Product Manager leads internal reviews and strategy workshops, communicates progress and tradeoffs to executives, and partners with engineering, business development, and program teams to scope and deliver products. The role also manages subcontractor relationships when needed and tracks product success metrics.

Externally, the Product Manager serves as a primary product representative to customers, government stakeholders, and partners. Responsibilities include conducting technical demonstrations and briefings, gathering and validating customer feedback, and aligning product capabilities with emerging opportunities. The position requires approximately 25% travel and willingness to work extended hours and weekends as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field.
• 3–5 years of product management experience with technical products.
• Experience taking products or major capabilities from discovery and requirements definition through development, launch, and iteration.
• Ability to learn complex technical domains and translate customer needs into actionable product requirements.
• Technical fluency to engage credibly with engineering teams and learn unfamiliar domains.
• Strong customer focus and presentation skills, including communicating with technical, operational, and executive audiences.
• Ability to work with ambiguity, evolving requirements, shifting priorities, and incomplete information.
• Strategic thinking and ability to prioritize for impact with constrained resources and explain product decisions.
• Ownership and execution skills, including turning broad goals into actionable plans, aligning teams, and driving work to completion.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting to technical and executive audiences.
• Willingness to travel approximately 25%.
• Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
• For positions requiring access to ITAR-controlled information, non-U.S. persons must be authorized to access that information before employment begins.

Nice To Haves

• Product management experience in aerospace, defense, robotics, software, or another complex engineering environment.
• Experience working with government or Department of Defense customers, including familiarity with acquisition processes and operational needs.
• Experience in a startup or fast-paced environment, moving quickly, working cross-functionally, and navigating ambiguity independently.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and product management tools such as Linear, Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain product roadmaps aligned with company strategy, customer needs, and market opportunities.
• Own and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring features are clearly defined and ready for engineering teams.
• Provide executives with visibility into product progress, milestones, risks, and key decisions.
• Translate customer feedback, stakeholder needs, and business opportunities into requirements and user stories.
• Balance customer commitments, technical constraints, mission requirements, and competing priorities.
• Deliver product demonstrations to customers, government stakeholders, and partners, addressing detailed technical questions.
• Prepare and present product briefings that communicate technical capabilities and customer or mission value.
• Act as a primary product point of contact for external stakeholders and ensure communications accurately reflect product capabilities.
• Coordinate with engineering and contribute to demonstrations relevant to stakeholder priorities.
• Lead biweekly product reviews and demonstrations, and lead biannual product strategy workshops.
• Communicate product priorities, progress, and tradeoffs to executives and maintain alignment between engineering and company strategy.
• Partner with engineering, business development, and program teams to define scope, resolve dependencies, and deliver products.
• Manage external subcontractor relationships as needed, tracking milestones and deliverables against schedule and technical requirements.
• Define and track product success metrics, using customer feedback and performance data to guide future priorities.
• Build and manage relationships with customers, government stakeholders, and partners.
• Gather customer feedback and validate product needs through conversations, demonstrations, and discovery sessions.
• Partner with business development to evaluate opportunities and align product capabilities with customer needs.
• Adapt roadmaps and priorities as market conditions and customer requirements evolve.
• Travel approximately 25% to maintain stakeholder relationships, support demonstrations, and gather product feedback.
• Work extended hours and weekends as needed.

Benefits

• Stock options and equity, including eligibility for the Employee Stock Option and Equity Plan.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k).
• Unlimited paid time off.
• Catered lunches.
• Relocation bonus.
• Other discretionary bonuses.
• Long-term incentives.

What This Job Offers

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