Senior Product Manager - Platform

Senior Product Manager - Platform

Hydrosat is a space and data analytics company building a next‑generation Earth observation constellation and software platform to unlock the power of thermal infrared imagery. Our mission is to deliver high–spatio-temporal thermal data to improve agricultural resilience, strengthen food and water security, support environmental stewardship, and enable critical global applications.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Product Manager - Platform to lead the roadmap, build, and evolve Hydrosat’s user and internal platform. This role is essential to ensure our thermal data products are easily discoverable, accessible, and actionable for customers around the world.

Responsibilities

Product Leadership

• Define and execute the product roadmap for Hydrosat’s User Platform, ensuring alignment with customer needs and company priorities.

• Lead the product lifecycle—from idea, discovery, development, launch, adoption, and continuous improvement.

• Build and maintain the roadmap for enhancement, and support of Hydrosat’s APIs and web applications.

Agile Execution

• Lead an Agile development team and facilitate ceremonies, stand‑ups, sprint planning, quarterly planning, retrospectives, and feature demos.

• Ensure development dependencies across teams are identified, aligned, and coordinated effectively.

Customer Understanding

• Develop a strong understanding of vertical markets, user workflows, and data access needs across scientific, D&I, analytics, and user communities.

• Work with internal Biz Dev teams to identify customer requirements.

• Engage users to validate direction and ensure an excellent platform experience.

Cross‑functional Collaboration

• Represent the voice of the customer internally, driving decisions that maximize usability, adoption, and ROI.

• Build relationships with external partners and adopters to identify opportunities for integration.

• Contribute to Hydrosat’s enterprise vision, engineering processes, and company‑wide roadmap.

Basic Qualifications

• Masters in engineering, Remote Sensing, Computer Science, or related field; or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years of product management experience, ideally within Earth observation, geospatial, or related domains.

• Demonstrated success leading technical products from concept to launch in a fast‑paced, software‑centered environment.

• Experience with APIs, RESTful services, and platform/integration ecosystems.

• Proven ability to translate technical capabilities into clear customer value.

• Strong analytical, communication, and problem‑solving skills.

• Experience leading Agile product development processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with geospatial data, remote sensing, or thermal imagery applications.

• Background working with multidisciplinary engineering, science, and commercial teams.

• Strong understanding of SaaS platforms and modern API product models.

• Experience in startups or high‑growth technology environments.

• Passion for customer‑centric product development and workflow‑oriented solutions.

What You Bring

• A proactive, results‑oriented mindset and a passion for driving product excellence.

• Ability to lead by influence, engage diverse stakeholders, and drive accountability.

• A strong sense of ownership for delivering a customer experience across the entire user interface.

• Curiosity, creativity, and the drive to build something foundational for a rapidly scaling company.

Benefits

• Employee options

• Stock options

• Health insurance:
Medical, Vision, Dental

• Flexible time off

• Maternity, Paternity & Parental Leave

• 401K Matching

Carlsbad, CA $-$

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