Manager, Product Insights

<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Product Insights, Software Engineering Manager</strong></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About Us:</strong></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company. We own and operate the world's most advanced space-based intelligence platform and provide customers satellite imagery, automated analytics and high-frequency monitoring of strategic locations, economic assets and events from around the globe. BlackSky is trusted by the most demanding allied military and intelligence organizations and commercial companies to deliver foresight into critical matters that affect national security and the economy. BlackSky's data enables governments and businesses to see, understand and anticipate change as it happens, giving them the ultimate strategic advantage so they can act quickly. Our global team works with cutting-edge technology to make a difference around the world and prides itself on being people-first, customer-focused and fun.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span data-contrast="auto">BlackSky is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our newly established Product Insights team. This team is responsible for accelerating the delivery of highvalue insight products directly through the BlackSky platform — enabling customers to derive value from BlackSky imagery without relying on multiple external vendors. </span><span data-contrast="auto">While the BlackSky imaging constellation provides a powerful foundational layer, the broader market demands turnkey insight products, seamless workflows, and integrated partner solutions. The Product Insights team will bridge that by designing, building, integrating, and operating scalable product pipelines that make advanced analytics available natively within BlackSky.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span data-contrast="auto">As the Engineering Manager for Product Insights, you will lead a team focused on:</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></span></p>

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<li style="font-size: 12pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="9" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span data-contrast="auto">Integrating and operating products from partners or new analytic flows across a variety of modalities</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="9" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span data-contrast="auto">Developing platform capabilities to host, orchestrate, and disseminate Blacksky products </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="9" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span data-contrast="auto">Ensuring reliability, consistency, and quality of new and existing insight products delivered to customers</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="9" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span data-contrast="auto">Collaborating across imagery, platform, partner engineering, and product teams to accelerate insight product timetomarket</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></span></li>

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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span data-contrast="auto">The ideal candidate has strong software engineering and cloud infrastructure expertise, experience running production pipelines, familiarity with hosted analytic products (ML or otherwise), and a proven ability to lead a high-performing team in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">  </span><span data-contrast="auto">We would love candidates near either our Herndon, VA or Seattle, WA offices but may also consider remote candidates. This role reports to the Senior Director, Ground Systems Software Engineering. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Responsibilities:</span></strong></span></p>

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<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Build, develop, and retain a high-performing engineering team focused on product hosting, partner product integration, and platform-based product delivery.</span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Set technical strategy and roadmap for the Product Insights team, ensuring the platform can scale to support a diverse portfolio of internal and partner insight products.  </span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Lead design and implementation of new product hosting architectures, including pipeline execution, versioning, reliability, and monitoring.  </span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Collaborate with product, platform, AI/analytics, imagery, and partner engineering teams to define requirements, align priorities, and accelerate product readiness.  </span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Identify and remove cross-team roadblocks related to product ingestion, data availability, platform constraints, or partner integration.  </span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Maintain deep technical involvement through code reviews, architectural decisions, and occasional hands-on development.</span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Foster a culture of continuous improvement, technical excellence, and strong ownership of product reliability and customer impact.  </span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Proactively identify risks, bottlenecks, and opportunities to accelerate product delivery, especially where new flows or partner integrations require novel approaches.  </span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Support sprint planning, team capacity management, and roadmap development in partnership with product leadership. </span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span data-contrast="auto">Other responsibilities as assigned.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></span></li>

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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Required Qualifications:</strong></span></p>

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<li style="font-size: 12pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span data-contrast="auto">Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span data-contrast="auto">A minimum of eight (8) years of professional experience in software engineering, including experience building or operating complex distributed, autonomous, or mission‑critical systems.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span data-contrast="auto">At least two (2) years of experience leading engineering teams as a people manager or technical lead with formal leadership responsibilities.</span> </span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span data-contrast="auto">Minimum of two years of experience managing or leading high-performing engineering teams, including hiring, capacity planning, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration.</span></span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span data-contrast="auto">Demonstrated experience designing and building scalable production software solutions and architectures.</span></span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt;" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span data-contrast="auto">Hands on experience with cloud services such as AWS EKS, S3, EC2, Aurora / RDS, SQS, SNS, Batch, etc.</span> </span></li>