Product Manager II - Hardware (Spacecraft)

Location: San Jose, CA; hybrid schedule with on-site work required four days per week

Salary: $177,000–$203,000 per year, plus equity and benefits

Company

hirify.global designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations and provides integrated space systems for climate monitoring, national security, and other mission-critical applications.

What you will do

• Own the roadmap for spacecraft power, propulsion, and guidance, navigation, and control subsystems.
• Define and prioritize features that improve product quality, schedule adherence, and customer value.
• Write product requirements documents, acceptance criteria, and detailed subsystem requirements.
• Develop product strategy and make-or-buy decisions with the Director of Product Management.
• Conduct customer interviews and translate mission needs and product-market-fit feedback into roadmap decisions.
• Coordinate with hardware, mission systems, mission architecture, production, AIT, supply chain, federal product, and broader product teams.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of product management experience owning hardware products in technically complex environments.
• Experience with solar power systems, spacecraft propulsion, industrial robotics, or adjacent deep-tech hardware domains.
• Experience delivering major features or programs spanning multiple months and managing concurrent workstreams independently.
• Ability to work effectively with engineering peers and leadership and influence technical investment without direct authority.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field.
• Must meet applicable U.S. export-control eligibility requirements for access to ITAR/EAR-controlled information.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with solar power systems or Hall-effect thrusters.
• Knowledge of guidance, navigation, and control algorithms, simulations, and sensors.
• Experience building or operating hardware for the space environment.
• Experience in a startup or high-growth technology environment.
• Advanced degree in a related technical field.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with equity compensation.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, and life insurance.
• Three weeks of paid vacation for new employees, 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time, and paid parental leave.
• Work in a spacecraft manufacturing and payload-integration facility in Silicon Valley.