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. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or nationals, U.S. permanent residents, or lawfully admitted refugees or asylees.

Base pay for Washington applicants: $169,347–$237,085.80 annually. Other site ranges may differ.

Company

hirify.global develops reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems and is building TeraWave, a multi-orbit satellite communications network with optically interconnected LEO and MEO satellites.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end execution for a critical TeraWave program domain from concept and requirements definition through launch and operations.
• Represent the Voice of the Customer by translating business and customer needs into executable plans and traceable requirements.
• Design and run weekly execution reviews, risk reviews, decision logs, corrective-action tracking, and business review inputs.
• Define metrics for schedule health, risk reduction, delivery performance, and readiness-gate progress.
• Lead cross-functional technical reviews, manage dependencies across hardware and software workstreams, and drive decisions to closure.
• Represent program execution in leadership forums, partner engagements, and customer-facing settings.

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 initiatives from conception through completion and managing complex cross-functional workstreams with external dependencies.
• Experience defining, scoping, and prioritizing requirements across hardware and software programs.
• Technical fluency in system integration, interface control, test and verification, operational readiness, and subsystem dependency management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive decision documents, risk briefings, and presentations to senior leadership.

Nice to have

• Experience with satellite communications, optical communications, ground segments, or RF systems.
• Familiarity with manufacturing readiness, DFM, AI&T planning, and production-rate assessment in space or defense hardware environments.
• Experience with program financial tracking, ROM estimating, cost and schedule tradeoffs, mentoring, or scaling program management practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Safety, collaboration, inclusion, and a focus on solving complex spaceflight problems.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, paid parental leave, and a 401(k) with up to 5% company match.
• 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.
• Education Support Program and potential bonuses based on role, level, and individual contributions.