Senior Product Manager, Analytics

Senior Product Manager, Analytics

About Us:

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.

The Senior Product Manager for Analytics will drive sustainable business growth by crafting and executing BlackSky’s analytics product strategy through product specification, strategic roadmap management, product KPI formulation and tracking, product marketing, and direct support to the global Sales and BD organization. This role reports directly to the Vice President of Product Management and while we prefer candidates located near our Herndon, VA or Seattle, WA offices, we are open to remote candidates in certain states.

Responsibilities:

• Work within an industry-leading team of Product Managers to bring the BlackSky strategic vision to life through development and release of analytics products which work seamlessly with our imagery tasking capabilities to deliver industry leading automated activity monitoring and broad area search.
• Develop and maintain the analytics product specification and development roadmap.
• Interface with program leads to define automated object detection requirements including performance targets, categorical ontologies, and delivery methods.
• Define business and technical KPI’s and report performance against those KPI’s on a regular basis.
• Interact directly with internal and external stakeholders to gain feedback on product strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and risks as they relate to both the analytics business model and technical capabilities.
• Form relationships with industry partners to support the complete Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TC-PED) needs of subscribers.
• Publish white papers and present at industry events to promote awareness of the analytics products.
• Support product sales opportunities through both remote engagements and some domestic and international travel to customer locations and industry events (approximately 10% travel).
• Collaborate with internal teams to create product marketing materials.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of eight years of experience working with advanced automation and data analytics.
• Minimum of five years of formal product management experience.
• Previous professional experience with Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) data and analytics.
• Strong technical aptitude and experience building and scaling analytics products.
• Strong business and technical acumen with top notch verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally approximately 10% of working days.
• Previous experience working on GTM product launches with a specific focus on information, intelligence and insights derived from integrated data sources.
• Ability to leverage outside-in customer-centric approach to identify unmet market opportunities.