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Senior Technical Product Manager Emphasis on ADCS

hace 15 días

Boulder

Job DescriptionSalary: Blue Canyon Technologies, RTX's small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, is solving some of the toughest challenges in space. Our components and bus platforms have completed missions ranging from very-low Earth orbits to lunar and interplanetary journeys at a fraction of the cost of traditional space systems. We support premier defense, commercial and civil organizations including the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA, MIT Lincoln Lab, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Colorado and more. Join our innovative and dynamic company as we build, test and operate the small spacecraft of the future. Position Purpose: The Senior Technical Product Manager drives the technical direction, planning, and execution of BCTs Attitude Determination and Control Systems while working closely with PMs and TPMs of related components like star trackers, wheels, torque rods, and sun sensors. This role owns the product roadmap, assists technical proposal efforts, and aligns engineering execution with customer needs and business goals. Acting as the voice of the customer, the Technical Product Manager ensures that technical decisions deliver both near-term program success and long-term product value. This role is for someone who is comfortable being the connective tissue between customers, engineering, and the business. You take ownership of product direction naturally, especially when priorities are competing or the path forward isnt obvious. You ask the right questions early, frame tradeoffs clearly, and help teams converge on decisions that make sense both technically and strategically. You are comfortable leading through influence by aligning stakeholders, shaping priorities, and giving engineers the context they need to execute well. You care about building products that are relevant, repeatable, and valuable over time, and you take pride in translating customer needs and market signals into clear roadmaps that enable teams to focus and deliver. Title:Senior Technical Product Manager Position Type:Full Time Pay Range: $108,000 - $180,000 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.) On-site position at our Boulder, CO location (work locations are subject to change based on business need). Benefits: • Employer sponsored health, dental, and vision benefits effective the first of the month following hire date, • Life insurance, • 401k (matching 4% with a minimum 5% contribution), • Generous PTO (3 weeks of vacation + 3 floating holidays, 2 weeks of sick time, 7 paid holidays throughout the year) and parental leave Job Responsibilities: • Own the full product lifecycle of satellite components and subsystems from concept through qualification and production, ensuring alignment with strategic roadmap and customer needs, • Act as the technical Voice of the Customer by incorporating customer feedback, mission requirements, and market trends into the product roadmap and technical priorities, • Assist engineering proposal efforts, including technical solutioning, schedule planning, risk identification, and coordination with cross-functional leads, • Drive product-level trade studies that balance performance, cost, manufacturability, and mission goals, • Facilitate early-phase technical planning: define configurable architecture, requirements, and qualification scope in coordination with systems engineering, • Collaborate across internal teams to scope IRAD and CRAD investment opportunities aligned with long-term technical and business objectives, • Lead customer technical exchanges, reviews, and decision meetings; communicate status, risk posture, and product evolution clearly and credibly, • Provide technical guidance across product lines to ensure consistency in interface definition, system architecture, and design intent, • Support new and modified product designs by coordinating verification strategies, modeling needs, and test approaches with responsible engineers, • Assist with internal product support activities (e.g., debug triage, sustaining reviews) as needed to maintain customer satisfaction, • Support onboarding and alignment of Level 1/2 engineers; model clear ownership and technical rigor in execution, • May include personnel management responsibilities, • Other responsibilities as assigned Required Qualifications: • Bachelors degree in Systems, Aerospace, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline, • Minimum 7 years of relevant engineering experience; Masters degree may substitute for up to 2 years, • Demonstrated experience owning or significantly influencing a product or subsystem across multiple programs, • Strong understanding of the spacecraft product lifecycle from concept through qualification, production, and sustainment, including technology readiness levels (TRLs), • Proven ability to define product scope, priorities, and tradeoffs balancing performance, cost, schedule, and risk, • Experience leading or contributing technical content for proposals, including requirements definition, ROMs, schedules, and risk posture, • Ability to work effectively across Engineering, Business Development, Program Management, and Operations to align technical execution with business goals, • Demonstrated capability to lead technical discussions with customers and internal stakeholders, clearly articulating design intent, roadmap direction, and risk, • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear, actionable technical and planning artifacts, • Ability to operate independently in ambiguous, fast-paced environments and make sound, risk-based decisions, • Related technical experience may be considered in lieu of education Preferred Qualifications: • 3 or more years of direct product development, technical product management, or technical team leadership experience, • Experience with ADCS systems and related components like star trackers, reaction wheels, control moment gyroscopes, torque rods, and sun sensors, • Experience developing and managing configurable or variant-based products across diverse customer needs, • Demonstrated ability to perform and interpret trade studies, parametric analyses, and evaluations of emerging technologies, • Experience collaborating closely with customers to define needs and shape competitive technical solutions, • Familiarity with procurement artifacts such as specifications, statements of work, and subcontract technical inputs, • Hands-on experience supporting demanding flight programs, including schedule pressure, integration challenges, or customer-driven changes, • Comfort working with modeling, simulation, or analysis tools; experience with MATLAB or Python preferred, • Experience using planning and tracking tools such as JIRA or similar, • Demonstrated figure it out and get it done mindset when facing incomplete data or evolving requirements Working Conditions: This job operates in a professional office environment, but in a manufacturing company. This role uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, scanners, filing cabinets and fax machines. BCT anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require BCT to shorten or extend the application window. Physical Demands and Work Environment: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time. The employee is occasionally required to stand, bend, reach, and walk. The position requires some light physical effort. This would require the ability to lift or move objects up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift or move objects up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities are required by this job which includes close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus. Blue Canyon Technologies is a drug-free workplace and an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected factor. Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information. Blue Canyon Technologies is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request a reasonable accommodation, contact Melissa Po at . We recommend applying directly via the Blue Canyon Technologies website, careers page:

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