Director of Government Product Management

Ready to make connectivity from space universally accessible, secure and actionable? Then you’ve come to the right place!
At E-Space, we’re focused on bridging Earth and space with the world’s most sustainable low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite network. We’re a team of bold thinkers, ambitious leaders and dynamic doers—and we’re disrupting NewSpace by fundamentally changing the design of legacy LEO space systems to deliver entirely new satellite capabilities at a fraction of the cost. ​We’re intentional, we’re unapologetically curious and we’re 100% committed—to saving space, to protecting our planet and to turning connectivity into actionable intelligence. Prêt à rendre la connectivité depuis l’espace universellement accessible, sécurisée et exploitable ? Alors vous êtes au bon endroit!    Chez E-Space, notre objectif est de relier la Terre et l’espace avec le réseau de satellites en orbite terrestre basse (LEO) le plus durable au monde. Au sein de notre équipe : des penseurs audacieux, des leaders ambitieux et des acteurs passionnés. Ensemble nous bousculons le NewSpace en modifiant fondamentalement la conception des systèmes spatiaux LEO existants pour offrir des capacités satellitaires entièrement nouvelles à un coût moindre.  Nous sommes déterminés, forts d’une curiosité sans faille, et engagés à 100% à économiser de l’espace, à protéger notre planète et à transformer la connectivité en intelligence exploitable.
What is the role?
The Director of Government Product Management will be the key point of contact with government customers for the development and introduction of new products leveraging the E-Space secure satellite network. The ideal candidate has a tracked record of being able to translate customer needs into products which have been successfully commercialized.
This position will report to the VP of Global Affairs & Stakeholder Relations and will work closely with the following Teams: Commercial, Strategy, Engineering (Payload, User Terminal, Network & Service Management).
The successful candidate will work for the Toulouse offices in France, and the role is also eligible for occasional remote work.

What you will do

• Own the government product strategy and roadmap for secure satellite networks
• Work end-to-end with government customers from product/service concept definition to successful delivery, until the product is handed over to through life Customer Support Team
• Act as main point of contact for government customers, gather requirements and own the business plan, customer requirements specifications (including use cases, performance)
• Lead the system dimensioning from a demand perspective which can then be applied against the orbital system capabilities
• Create programs for the development of new products/features
• Liaise with the engineering team to ensure the product/feature are delivered accordingly to schedule (internal customer role)
• Liaise with the engineering team to assess and adapt the secure satellite network to be interoperable, where possible, with other legacy networks used by the customer
• Support E-Space remote device and core network teams in the development of the API to support integration with customer equipment and networks
• Organize customer demonstration
• Manage bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints, and maximize business benefit
• Lead/support bid responses on new opportunities, prepare quotations and replies to RFP’s, RFQ’s and RFI’s

Why you're the right candidate

• You have 5+ years of experience in government product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology management
• You have product management experience in building and deploying products in large scale from initial concept to sustaining engineering
• You have the ability to work in a fast pace high speed environment
• You have a strong understanding of the satellite and/or terrestrial communications market and ecosystem, especially for government applications
• You have demonstrable experience supporting product specifications, product development and customer requirements
• You have experience overseeing roadmap strategy and definition
• You have experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product

Additional experience we'd like to see

• EU (preferably French) citizen and willing to obtain necessary security clearances to be able to work on certain projects
• Former military welcome or a good knowledge of the defense field
• Fluent in French and English at a minimum
• Ability to work and thrive in a startup environment
• Previous industrial experience in government satellite/terrestrial comm