Responsibilities

As the Senior Product Manager of Software Defined Radios, you will be responsible for the overall technical roadmap of your product, gathering customer feedback while understanding customer needs and pain points. You will be working with various stakeholders to ensure the fast development and implementation of the product. As this is a technical role, you will also work closely with the Electrical, FPGA, DSP and Software Engineers to define the specifications, and performance of the product to ensure the successful on-time and on-budget delivery to our customers.

Essential Functions:

• Be a transformational leader. Lead a team of engineers through a fast-paced environment responsible for product development activities from inception to production. Coach, teach, mentor team members in a manner which builds trust, collaboration, and breaks down barriers.
• Manage external customer expectations, communications, negotiations, and scope creep. The primary goal of the Senior Product Manager will be to successfully build and manage external customer relationships, communications, and expectations to reduce risk to the company utilizing effective communication and negotiation skills. Success criteria for this position will be the team’s ability to identify scope creep and raise engineering change requests to eliminate NRE cost overruns and/or schedule delays.
• Resolve problems both internal and with the customer for both technical and commercial issues. The Senior Product Manager will leverage their problem resolution skills, communication skills, project management skills, and technical expertise to resolve both technical and commercial issues with both internal and external customers in a timely and calm manner. Success criteria for this position will be resolving problems in a timely manner with positive concurrence from both sides.
• Lead product development technical & commercial proposal activities. The successful Senior Product Manager will lead proposal efforts. Proposal generation includes NRE and recurring cost analyses, schedule estimation, contract review/negotiations, and compliance matrix generation. Success criteria for this position will be submitting the completed proposal on schedule, meeting all customer RFP expectations.
• Effectively communicate, verbally and in writing, with engineering, operations, upper management and external customers. The Senior Product Manager will effectively communicate with both internal and external customers providing clear direction, planning, clarification, guidance, decisions, status, and issue resolution. Success criteria for this position will be submitting and presenting to senior management monthly program reviews and external customer program performance reviews.

Profile

Required qualifications:

• RF/communications engineering expertise, including modulation, coding, and RF hardware
• At least 1-5 years of detailed hands-on with hardware and software in a comms system
• Wireless/satellite link analysis
• Experience with Proposal development and direct POC Customer interaction
• Satellite industry economics and engineering experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering or similar
• Minimum 15 years’ demonstrated experience in communications systems and engineering

Helpful, but not required:

• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering
• Experience with radio product development from concept to production (especially leadership experience)
• Experience with On-orbit radios preferred, ground-based modems also good
• Experience with digital signal processing (DSP) and its implementation in FPGA, software, or both
• Experience with satellite network topologies
• US government security clearance at SECRET or higher
• Experience with business strategy and product placement
• Experience with spaceflight hardware considerations, such as radiation exposure
• Experience with environmental testing (MIL-STD-810G or similar)
• Experience and contacts specifically in the satellite industry, and familiarity with all of the major players
• Ability to travel (as health and safety considerations permit)
• Top Secret Security Clearance
• Experience in small company, start-up, or growth transition environments

Physical demands:

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
• The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, use hands, and reach with hands and arms.
• Intermittent physical activity including bending, reaching, pushing, pulling, or lifting up to 40 lbs.
• May encounter prolonged periods of sitting.