Product Manager

Sphinx builds software to solve complex national security problems in Space. Founded by engineers and technologists with deep experience across commercial and defense technology, we were frustrated by the outdated and insecure technology America's service members are forced to rely on. We're here to do better.

We’re focused on building modern, scalable products with an emphasis on using open source technologies. Expect talented, motivated, and interesting colleagues who emphasize collaboration, transparency, and individual responsibility.

Sphinx is hiring a Product Manager to join our team, building the next generation of mission planning and command and control software for space ground antenna programs. This team is charged with creating modern, resilient services and capabilities to service the US Government for the next decade and beyond.

As a Product Manager, you will play a key role in communicating and building a cutting‑edge enterprise ground platform for US government satellites. You will be the bridge between stakeholders and engineers, significantly contributing to the development of core platform services and designing technology to support the operations of various US government satellites. You will have an outsized role in determining what we build and how we work.

• Advocating between customers and engineers for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have a particular impact on your team and others.
• Managing projects simultaneously and executing day‑to‑day tasks to ensure timely delivery.
• Communicating progress and ensuring alignment with important stakeholders and engineers.
• Supporting architecture of backend services as part of the platform ecosystem with an emphasis on automation, testing, and security.
• Creating high‑quality technical documentation for processes and software architecture for Sphinx software.
• Owning the product backlogs, significantly contributing to the software roadmap, and aligning engineers on the most important problems to solve and why.
• Influencing the space ecosystem through software demonstrations, relationships, marketing documentation, etc.
• Scaling the services and solving interesting Space Communication challenges.

• 5+ years of working on or leading software development product teams to ship functional software.
• Exceptional communication skills, working with the government and mission partner end‑users to design solutions to their needs.
• Demonstrable experience translating between highly technical customer requirements and software development objectives.
• Strong technical writing ability.
• Strong knowledge in cloud‑based systems (AWS, Gitlab, Slack, etc).
• Experience with Figma, and/or other design tools.
• Made enough mistakes and booked enough wins to know what not to build and what good looks like.
• The ability to learn quickly and thrive in a fast‑paced ambiguous environment.

While this role is remote, travel is required to support project work. You can expect to travel 25% or one week a month.

This role is between $133,000 – $160,000 base salary.

Compensation includes competitive salary, meaningful equity ownership, profit sharing, employer 401(k) contribution, and 100% employer covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.

This position requires eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident (aka green card holder), refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Sphinx Defense is devoted to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Sphinx Defense is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity.