Product Manager (Aerospace)

Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA; work includes in-person collaboration at the Playa Vista office, customer meetings, site visits, and travel as needed.

Company

hirify.global manufactures configurable satellite buses at scale through software, vertical integration, and manufacturing-designed hardware for earth observation, communications, and other space applications.

What you will do

• Own the roadmap for current and next-generation spacecraft platforms and block upgrades.
• Define platform requirements, standard interfaces, customer configurations, and mission service packages.
• Translate customer needs across defense, intelligence, communications, sensing, science, and commercial markets into product requirements.
• Coordinate with engineering, mission integration, supply chain, manufacturing, test, Finance, and Business Development to meet production rate, cost, and performance targets.
• Use testbed and flight-vehicle lessons to improve the platform, while protecting it from one-off changes that increase NRE or slow production.
• Track competitive products, product success metrics, pricing, packaging, roadmap priorities, and tradeoffs; maintain specifications, datasheets, and standard interface documents.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of experience in product management or technical product ownership for complex hardware or hardware-software systems.
• Experience taking a hardware product from requirements through production and customer delivery.
• Experience in satellite manufacturing or related aerospace, defense, or high-tech industries.
• Strong technical understanding of spacecraft or other complex hardware systems, with the ability to work directly with engineers on tradeoffs.
• Experience owning product roadmaps and balancing cost, schedule, performance, and customer needs.
• Experience working directly with customers and converting their needs into clear product requirements.
• Strong communication skills, including presentations to executives and customers, and the ability to make decisions with incomplete information in a fast-paced environment.
• U.S. Person status or eligibility to obtain required export authorizations is required because the role involves access to export-controlled data.

Nice to have

• Experience with configurable or productized hardware platforms, standard interfaces, and block upgrades.
• Experience with defense, intelligence, or government customers and procurement.
• Experience in a production-rate manufacturing environment.
• Familiarity with systems engineering, requirements management, and interface control.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with equity, company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, and a 401(k) matching plan.
• 15 days of vacation initially, growing to 20+ days annually, plus 10 paid holidays.
• Eight weeks of paid parental leave and childcare reimbursement of up to $350 per day for work-related travel.
• Daily catered lunch, unlimited snacks, equipment for a productive desk setup, and office social activities.
• Work from the Playa Vista office with in-person collaboration and flexibility to integrate work and life.

Hiring process

• Applicants must satisfy the stated ITAR eligibility requirement by qualifying as a U.S. Person or obtaining applicable export authorizations.