Technical Product Manager

Viasat, Inc. • Carlsbad, CA

8h • Remote

About The Position

Viasat’s Government business is poised for significant growth in the coming years, bringing critical connectivity solutions to our war fighters across the battle space. Our solutions serve user groups and market segments across all services as well as within the intelligence and international government communities. As a Technical Product Manager (TPdM), you will capture user needs and customer requests from various domains. You will then translate them into a consolidated set of product requirements and a roadmap to guide the engineering teams in product development.

The TPdM role involves collaborating with business product and program managers, engineering leads, and customers to understand the product strategy and business roadmap/s and market requirements. The TPdM will also collaborate alongside engineering groups to complete the vision by defining the technical product specifications and timeline. This requires an affinity for thinking about users, use cases, and value propositions. It also demands a solid grasp of the underlying infrastructure, including data, backend services, cloud architectures, and networking to support the product. An innate ability to adapt quickly to changing needs and market environments is also crucial.

Requirements

• 5-8 years of product manager experience in a highly technical environment (telecom, SATCOM, etc)
• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
• Background in technical product development, preferably related to data platforms, cloud-based application development, satellite communications or networking
• Basic understanding of full-stack development frameworks
• Ability to understand and develop technical product requirements including those related to performance, security, and customer experience
• Understand the needs of the end users and work with engineering teams to ensure that the implementations meet the spirit of the requirement
• Develop and pursue a perspective on what makes the most sense for the technical implementation
• US citizenship required
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance

Nice To Haves

• Understanding of agile software development processes
• Some understanding of DoW CONOPs, users, and operating environments
• Familiarity with user experience analysis and standard methodologies and willingness to perform user experience studies
• Familiarity with data science, data processing, or AI/ML

Responsibilities

• Capture user needs and customer requests from various domains.
• Translate user needs and customer requests into a consolidated set of product requirements and a roadmap to guide engineering teams in product development.
• Collaborate with business product and program managers, engineering leads, and customers to understand product strategy, business roadmaps, and market requirements.
• Collaborate with engineering groups to define technical product specifications and timelines.
• Own the hardware and software product and platform success from early definition through the entire product lifecycle, including through maturity and ultimately End-of-Life.
• Bring together the engineering product team of all essential functions (e.g., business, engineering, operations) and ensure a shared product vision and group work for product success.
• Prepare presentation materials to educate others on the technical approach and timelines.
• Provide collaborators with access to product status through regular product reviews.
• Develop and maintain product roadmaps, working across engineering teams and the business to prioritize and scope new features, tech debt, efficiency improvements, technology alignment with adjacent products, sustainment efforts, etc.
• Understand and represent the 'voice of the customer' on the engineering team.
• Facilitate discussions with engineering and business teams on build tradeoffs.
• Work with business counterparts to determine and de-conflict backlog priorities.

Benefits

• Range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered.
• Comprehensive benefit offerings that are focused on your holistic health and wellness.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees