Technical Product Manager

Viasat is a global company focused on delivering connectivity solutions, particularly for government sectors. The Technical Product Manager will capture user needs, translate them into product requirements, and collaborate with engineering teams to guide product development and strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Capture user needs and customer requests from various domains
• Translate user needs into a consolidated set of product requirements and a roadmap
• Collaborate with business product and program managers, engineering leads, and customers to understand product strategy and market requirements
• Define technical product specifications and timeline in collaboration with engineering groups
• Understand users, use cases, and value propositions for product development
• Develop technical product requirements related to performance, security, and customer experience
• Work with engineering teams to ensure implementations meet user requirements
• Own hardware and software product success throughout the product lifecycle
• Bring together the engineering product team to ensure a shared product vision
• Prepare presentation materials to educate others on technical approaches and timelines
• Provide product status updates through regular reviews
• Develop and maintain product roadmaps, prioritizing new features and improvements

Requirements:

• 5-8 years of product manager experience in a highly technical environment (telecom, SATCOM, etc)
• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
• Background in technical product development, preferably related to data platforms, cloud-based application development, satellite communications or networking
• Basic understanding of full-stack development frameworks
• Ability to understand and develop technical product requirements including those related to performance, security, and customer experience
• Understand the needs of the end users and work with engineering teams to ensure that the implementations meet the spirit of the requirement
• Develop and pursue a perspective on what makes the most sense for the technical implementation
• Own the hardware and software product and platform success from early definition through the entire product lifecycle, including through maturity and ultimately End-of-Life
• Bring together the engineering product team of all essential functions (e.g. business, engineering, operations) and ensure a shared product vision and group work for product success
• Prepare presentation materials to educate others on the technical approach and timelines
• Provide collaborators with access to product status through regular product reviews
• Develop and maintain product roadmaps, working across engineering teams and the business to prioritize and scope new features, tech debt, efficiency improvements, technology alignment with adjacent products, sustainment efforts, etc
• US citizenship required
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance
• This role requires 25% mostly domestic travel
• Understanding of agile software development processes
• Some understanding of DoW CONOPs, users, and operating environments
• Familiarity with user experience analysis and standard methodologies and willingness to perform user experience studies
• Familiarity with data science, data processing, or AI/ML
• Understanding and representing the 'voice of the customer' on the engineering team
• Facilitate discussions with engineering and business teams on build tradeoffs
• Work with business counterparts to determine and de-conflict backlog priorities