Staff Product Manager
About The Position
Muon Space is hiring a Staff Product Manager to own one to two product areas end-to-end. Depending on the candidate’s background and company needs, these areas may include the spacecraft platform, the RF and optical bits-to-ground data path, on-board high-performance compute, or the instrument portfolio. The role owns each area’s roadmap and productization decisions, including architecture, capability tiering, service-level agreements, reuse versus customization, and, where applicable, pricing and packaging. These decisions are intended to shape how Muon scales commercially and operationally. This is a deliberate Staff-level (L6) individual-contributor role reporting to the VP of Product. It requires making consequential commercial and architectural decisions, working as a technical peer with engineering and leadership, and operating across hardware, software, operations, and go-to-market without a team to delegate to. The position is hybrid and requires working on-site in Muon Space’s San Jose, California office three days per week. The position requires access to export-controlled information; applicants must meet one of the eligibility conditions described in the job posting.
Requirements
- 8–10 years of Product Management experience, with demonstrated success owning complex, technically deep products spanning hardware, software, and data systems.
- Track record of owning a large product area end-to-end, including its architectural, productization, and commercial decisions.
- Strong fluency working with platform, infrastructure, and systems engineering leadership.
- Comfort operating as a Staff-level individual contributor: making consequential decisions, writing concise strategy documents, aligning senior stakeholders, and executing without a team to delegate to.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related technical field.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree.
- Familiarity with space systems and LEO constellations, including spacecraft platforms, instruments, ground segment, remote sensing, or satellite data pipelines.
- Previous experience deploying or scaling a Product function within a space, defense, or deep-tech company.
- Prior experience in startup or high-growth technology environments.
Responsibilities
- Own the strategy and multi-quarter roadmap for one to two large Muon product areas.
- Distinguish reusable platform capabilities from mission- or customer-specific customization and shape architecture choices that support reuse across missions and customers.
- Sequence the roadmap to support near-term deals while building reusable value for future ones.
- Define success measures for the product area and hold the organization accountable to them.
- Own productization decisions and drive the shift from bespoke, project-based commitments toward standardized, tiered offerings.
- For the spacecraft platform, define platform variants, standard interfaces, and options for mission teams and customers, and govern platform evolution across missions.
- For bits-to-ground, define end-to-end latency, availability, and throughput tiers; align ground segment, pipeline, and storage investments with commitments; and set constellation downlink prioritization policy.
- For on-board high-performance compute, define the compute capability roadmap and developer/SDK surface for mission payloads, and determine how processing capabilities are exposed to internal teams and external customers.
- For instruments, shape portfolio strategy, determine which capabilities are standardized or bespoke, specify and verify performance, and productize new instruments across missions.
- Conduct customer and user discovery with external customers, internal mission teams, and partners; gather structured feedback and translate it into roadmap decisions and productization experiments.
- Partner with Growth to analyze won and lost deals, identify product gaps and competitive advantages, and inform product and engineering investment.
- Track relevant competitive and technology trends and assess where Muon leads, matches, or lags.
- Partner closely with engineering across software, hardware, and operations.
- Partner with Growth on deal structure, contract language, and the boundary between standardized packaging and bespoke commercial terms.
- Support Go-To-Market teams with sales enablement, technical documentation, RFP responses, customer demonstrations, and product positioning materials.
- Work with Marketing on product messaging, website content, case studies, whitepapers, and thought-leadership content.
- Collaborate with the VP of Product and broader PM team on cross-area roadmap trade-offs, prioritization, and fundraising-aligned narrative.
Benefits
- Competitive equity grant.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Life insurance.
- Three weeks of paid vacation for new employees.
- 12 paid holidays.
- Unlimited sick time.
- Paid parental leave.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
