Director, Product Management leading product development for satellite communications at SES Space & Defense. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet customer requirements and market needs.
Responsibilities
Meet with customers to identify user desires, pain points, latent needs, and motivations, to be translated into product features and user stories.
Investigate opportunities for hosted payloads and augmentations on our future constellation updates.
Identify requirements and features for our next generation user terminals, which may support LEO, MEO, and GEO satellite connections and tracking.
Translate market research into detailed, actionable product requirement documents (PRDs), including epics, features, and user scenarios.
Analyze direct and indirect competitors to understand their strengths and weaknesses of product features and market positioning to identify opportunities for differentiation.
Use data-driven insights to rank potential product features based on market demand, technical feasibility, differentiation and alignment with business goals.
Work with cross functional departments through the development process to create Minimum Viable Products as precursors to a final product offering.
Employ Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) or prototypes to gather feedback from potential users, testing usability and functionality before full-scale development.
For hosted payloads, user terminals or other hardware development, track the requirements, testing, and validation from cradle to grave to ensure full compliance to the product needs.
Participate in the development and management of annual IR&D/CAPEX and OPEX budgets targeted toward achievement of objectives that create new revenue or drive additional revenue for the business.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Computer & Electronic Systems, Computer Engineering, Software Development, or related field required.
Extensive knowledge in the field of satellite communications, satellite ground systems, satellite user terminals, as well as related operations.
12+ years of progressive experience in government SATCOM.
Experience with gathering use cases, developing vendor requirements, development, testing and deployment preferred.
Experience leading cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization.
Proficiency with Microsoft 365 suite, as well as ADO, Salesforce, Deltek Costpoint, and related software applications.
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