Principal Technical Product Manager

Blue Canyon Technologies RTXs small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider is solving some of the toughest challenges in space. Our components and bus platforms have completed missions ranging from very-low Earth orbits to lunar and interplanetary journeys at a fraction of the cost of traditional space systems. We support premier defense commercial and civil organizations including the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory NASA MIT Lincoln Lab the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory University of Colorado and more. Join our innovative and dynamic company as we build test and operate the small spacecraft of the future.

As a Principal Technical Product Manager youll set the product strategy and technical direction for one of BCTs product areas ADCS star trackers reaction wheels power or another part of the portfolio assigned based on business need and your background. These products have enabled hundreds of spacecraft and missions and youll define where they go over the next several years: which markets to chase which capabilities to build and where the business should place its bets.

Youre the senior technical and commercial voice for your area to customers to the industry and inside BCT. You shape strategy where its most ambiguous frame the tradeoffs that move the business and bring the rest of the organization along through credibility rather than authority. You care about building a portfolio thats relevant repeatable and valuable over time and about reading the market early enough to get there first.

BCTs mission is to enable space missions that expand the frontiers of science and defense. This is a high-ownership high-trust role and your job is to make that mission real for the product area you lead and to push how far it reaches. If youre the kind of person who meets an ambiguous market with curiosity and then goes to work clearing the constraints on where it can go youll do well here.

Title: Principal Technical Product Manager

Position Type:Full Time

Pay Range: $170000 - $240000

(Salary to be determined by the education experience knowledge skills and abilities of the applicant internal equity and alignment with market data.)

On-site position at our Boulder CO location (work locations are subject to change based on business need).

Benefits:

• Employer sponsored health dental and vision benefits effective the first of the month following hire date
• Life insurance
• 401k (matching 4% with a minimum 5% contribution)
• Generous PTO (3 weeks of vacation 3 floating holidays 2 weeks of sick time 7 paid holidays throughout the year) and parental leave

Job Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy and multi-year roadmap for your area and steer the roadmaps of the components and suppliers it depends on so each generation is positioned better than the last.
• Be the senior voice of the customer and the market. Read where the industry is going define the capabilities that will matter and translate that into direction engineering and the business can act on.
• Lead the external story. Be a visible technical presence at industry conferences author and shape the technical papers that establish BCTs position and bring customers the art of the possible at the deepest level.
• Own the most important customer engagements. Lead high-stakes technical exchanges and decision meetings communicating direction and risk credibly to the most demanding audiences.
• Shape where the business invests. Drive the technical content and direction of major proposals and set the IRAD/CRAD agenda that ties engineering bets to long-term business goals.
• Set the standard for the discipline. Define how trade studies requirements and product decisions get made across the area and drive consistency across BCTs product lines.
• Grow the team. Mentor Senior and Level II product managers and engineers and set the bar for technical rigor and product judgment.

Required Qualifications

• A technical degree (Systems Aerospace Electrical Mechanical or similar) and 13 years of relevant engineering experience.
• Strong engineering fundamentals with the ability to think through interactions between engineering domains mechanical electrical software thermal and more.
• A track record of owning a product or product area across many programs and multiple generations with clear business impact.
• Deep command of the spacecraft product lifecycle concept through qualification production and sustainment including TRLs and the judgment to set direction under real uncertainty.
• Proven ability to set product strategy and shape investment working across Engineering BD Program Management and Operations to align technical execution with where the business is going.
• A recognized ability to represent a product line credibly to customers and the broader industry.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Other responsibilities as assigned
• May include personnel management responsibilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Systems Aerospace Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline
• 12 years of relevant engineering experience
• GNC engineering experience extra points for familiarity with BCT systems
• Spacecraft systems engineering experience with direct experience in a subsystem BCT supports (ADCS Power C&DH etc.)
• Deep hands-on experience with a component solution BCT supplies or competes against (star trackers reaction wheels CMGs torque rods sun sensors SADAs batteries solar arrays)
• A track record setting product strategy or taking a product line into a market and growing it
• Experience mentoring product managers or technical leads
• Configurable or variant-based product lines across diverse customer needs
• A visible industry presence conference talks technical papers or standards work
• Familiarity with specs SOWs and subcontract technical inputs
• Hands-on history with demanding flight programs
• MATLAB or Python
• JIRA or similar planning/tracking tools
• A figure it out and get it done instinct
• Related technical experience may be considered in lieu of education

Working Conditions:

This job operates in a professional office environment but in a manufacturing company. This role uses standard office equipment such as computers phones photocopiers scanners filing cabinets and fax machines. BCT anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require BCT to shorten or extend the application window.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time. The employee is occasionally required to stand bend reach and walk. The position requires some light physical effort. This would require the ability to lift or move objects up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift or move objects up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities are required by this job which includes close vision distance vision and ability to adjust focus.

Blue Canyon Technologies is a drug-free workplace and an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation national origin age disability marital status veteran status or any other protected factor. Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age date of birth or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information. Blue Canyon Technologies is committed to providing access equal opportunity and reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in employment its services programs and activities. To request a reasonable accommodation contact Melissa Po at
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