Senior Product Manager

Job Purpose/Summary

The Product Manager (PM) owns the business and customer-facing product vision for Knowmadics' 360 Space platform, an API-first, cloud-native data platform for telemetry data ingest, entity and track management, data retrieval and delivery, and domain awareness capabilities through a user-centered front-end. Space and satellite data is the first domain the platform supports; the Product Manager is responsible for identifying the standardized, domain-agnostic core of the platform and extending it to additional domains. This role is the primary link between the market (Sales, Business Development, prospective and current customers) and the product roadmap: understanding who will buy and use 360 Space capabilities, validating product-market fit, and translating that understanding into clear, prioritized product direction.

This role owns overall product priorities and is accountable for the unified product vision and roadmap for our telemetry data platform technologies and product portfolio, beginning with the Space domain, and delivers on that by working hand-in-hand with the Engineering/Tech Lead, Human-Machine Interface (HMI) Lead, and Project Manager as trusted peers, each bringing deep expertise in their own domain. The Product Manager is expected to actively synthesize business, technical, and user-experience perspectives into a single, well-communicated direction, and to keep the broader team aligned and motivated around it. The Product Manager will work closely with the Project Manager, who governs schedule and budget constraints and decisions, to keep product development on track and within budget. This role carries the flexibility to absorb related product scope over time, including additional data domains and AI/ML-enabled features, as Knowmadics' product portfolio matures.

What this Role Owns: Product Vision Roadmap, Product-Market Fit Analysis, Product Scope and Priorities (e.g., Functional Requirements, User Stories), Domain Expansion Strategy (identifying the standardized core platform vs. domain-specific needs, External Customer and User Engagement Strategy, Internal Cross-Team Stakeholder (e.g., Sales, Marketing, Business Development, C-Suite) Communications.

What the Technical Lead Owns: Engineering Implementation Strategy and Prioritization, Technical Architecture Decisions, Development Sequencing, Resource (Staff, Data, Equipment) Requirements and Priorities.

What the Project Manager Owns: Funded R&D milestone and deliverable tracking and prioritization, subcontractor management, external (e.g., US Government) R&D sponsor / stakeholder management, product development schedule tracking and adjustments (e.g., push release to accommodate new feature or hold release to hit deadline), product budget tracking and adjustments.

Duties and Responsibilities

Product Vision, Market Fit & Go-to-Market

• •Partner directly and regularly with Sales and Business Development to understand customer needs, active pursuits, competitive positioning, and the broader space domain awareness market and other domains with similar telemetry data challenges.
• •Own and continuously refine the product vision and business case for 360 Space, translating customer conversations, market signals, and sales pursuits into clear product direction.
• •Assess and track product-market fit; identify who the near-term and eventual buyers and users of 360 Space capabilities are, across current and target domains, and shape the value proposition, positioning, and packaging needed to reach them.
• •Define the standardized, domain-agnostic core of the platform (e.g., data upload and ingest, entity and track management, data retrieval and packaging, and the user-centered front end) versus what is domain-specific, and use it to identify, prioritize, and validate expansion into additional domains.
• •Contribute go-to-market thinking (e.g., pricing, packaging, and licensing considerations) as the offering matures, in partnership with Sales/BD leadership.
• •Lead or support product briefings and demonstrations for prospective customers, industry partners, and internal leadership; bring customer and market feedback back into the roadmap.

Cross-Functional Product Leadership

• •Set and communicate product priorities and roadmap sequencing, synthesizing input from Sales/BD, the Engineering Tech Lead, the HMI Lead, and government/operational stakeholders into one coherent direction.
• •Help keep the team aligned and motivated around a shared product vision, ensuring business priorities, technical constraints, and user needs are all visibly reflected in the roadmap.
• •Serve as the “Product” function within the team's Product & Engineering working process: owning requirement briefs and business priority inputs that HMI finalizes into functional specifications.
• •Collaborate with the Engineering Tech Lead and HMI Lead on key decisions, including risks and trade-offs, respecting each other's ownership areas.

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