Senior Product Manager, Data Platform and APIs

Capella Space stands at the forefront of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite technology and signal intelligence. We provide customers in governments, academia, and commercial sectors with reliable information that enables unparalleled understanding of the world. Our mission is centered on delivering timely and reliable Earth imagery, supporting diverse applications in defense & intelligence, disaster response, energy, environmental monitoring and more. Utilizing cutting-edge technology, Capella Space designs, manufactures and operates an advanced constellation of SAR imaging satellites. Our market-leading SAR satellites are complemented by an unmatched data infrastructure and automated ordering and delivery platform for fast, reliable insights where and when customers need it most. 

Recognized for our technological prowess, Capella Space was honored as one of the 10 most innovative companies in Space in 2023 by FASTCOMPANY. Capella Space is an internationally trusted Earth Observation data provider, working closely with the U.S. Space Systems Command, U.S. Space Force, NASA, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, the Canadian Government and more to make unclassified, high-resolution SAR data more accessible.  

What Makes Capella Unique? 

Capella Space is a highly collaborative team environment, providing an opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in the space industry, though no prior space experience is needed.  We’re looking for people excited about tackling seemingly impossible challenges, learning new skills and concepts, and helping each other achieve success. Our mission and our products are meant to understand the whole world and help everyone in it - regardless of race, creed, or any other distinction. We encourage you to bring your unique perspective to help make us stronger, including applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. 

About the Role & Team 

The product management team at Capella Space is focused on delivering the value of high-resolution SAR to customers across commercial verticals and government organizations, domestically and internationally. Whether their needs are reliable revisit, understanding change, or customized analytics that leverage the power of SAR, the product management team meets our customers where they work and delivers information that helps them achieve their business and mission objectives. 

Core to our data-as-a-service business, the product management team’s mission is to massively expand the usefulness and adoption of SAR data for a variety of applications from security to commerce to environmental monitoring. The problems we solve stretch from the ground to space, ensuring that our customers get the data they need, when they need it, in the easiest way possible so that they can do amazing things that we couldn’t have even imagined. 

Role Responsibilities 

You will be responsible for the core data platform that both human imagery analysts and software systems use to solve a diverse set of problems. Success in this role requires a deep understanding of our customers’ workflows and identifying how to rapidly integrate and improve our data platform with their process processes. 

You are highly technical and willing to dive deep with engineers within and outside of Capella. You are a curator who knows how to take complex technical challenges and shape them into simple solutions for our customers. You are a curious learner who seeks to be a strong subject matter expert for the products that you own. You can move ideas from early product discovery through to definition, execution, and go-to-market. 

You will… 

• Own the vision, strategy, & development for Capella’s data platform and APIs to meet the needs of both government & commercial customers. 
• Partner closely with fellow product managers, engineering, customer engagement teams, and marketing to build solutions that drive positive business impact.
• Innovate by leveraging a deep understanding of Capella’s capabilities, industry standards, data platforms and APIs, and customer problems to see around the corner and deliver new, innovative solutions to the market. 
• Build a comprehensive data platform that expands the usefulness of SAR data to grow the industry.