Senior Technical Product Manager (Satellite Communications)

Location: Greater Seattle Area, United States. Relocation assistance is available. Travel of 25–35% may be required for site visits, design reviews, partner meetings, and customer engagements.

Base pay: $169,347.00–$237,085.80 annually for applicants in Washington and Virginia; other site ranges may differ.

Company

hirify.global develops reusable space vehicles and systems and is building TeraWave, a multi-orbit satellite communications network designed to provide enterprise-grade connectivity worldwide.

What you will do

• Own execution for a critical TeraWave program domain from concept and requirements definition through launch and operations support.
• Represent the Voice of the Customer and translate business and customer needs into executable requirements and delivery plans.
• Design and run weekly execution reviews, risk reviews, decision logs, corrective-action tracking, and business review inputs.
• Track schedule health, delivery performance, risk burndown, readiness gates, and lessons learned.
• Lead cross-functional technical reviews across hardware, software, systems, engineering, operations, strategy, and business development.
• Prepare decision-ready escalation packages and present recommendations to senior leadership, partners, and customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, engineering, systems engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of product or technical program management experience, including 6+ years working directly with hardware and software engineering teams.
• Experience delivering complex initiatives from conception through completion and managing cross-functional workstreams with external dependencies.
• Experience defining, scoping, and prioritizing requirements across hardware and software programs, preferably in aerospace, satellite, defense, telecommunications, or comparable environments.
• Technical fluency in system integration, interface control, testing and verification, operational readiness, and subsystem dependency management.
• Applicants must be U.S. citizens or nationals, U.S. permanent residents, or lawfully admitted refugees or asylees.

Nice to have

• Experience with satellite communications, optical communications, ground segments, or RF systems.
• Familiarity with manufacturing readiness, Design for Manufacturability, Assembly, Integration, and Test planning, and production-rate assessment.
• Knowledge of U.S. government contracting, export controls, and national security space customers.
• Experience with program-level financial tracking, ROM estimating, and mentoring junior team members.

Culture & Benefits

• Safety, collaboration, inclusion, and continuous improvement are emphasized.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, and paid parental leave.
• 401(k) with company match of up to 5% and an Education Support Program.
• Stock options for regular employees working at least 20 hours per week.
• Up to four weeks of paid time off and up to 14 company-paid holidays.