Manager, Product Insights Seattle, WA; Herndon, VA; Remote

Product Insights, Software Engineering Manager

About Us:

Black Sky is a real-time intelligence company. We own and operate the world's most advanced space-based intelligence platform and provide customers satellite imagery, automated analytics and high-frequency monitoring of strategic locations, economic assets and events from around the globe. Black Sky is trusted by the most demanding allied military and intelligence organizations and commercial companies to deliver foresight into critical matters that affect national security and the economy.

Black Sky's data enables governments and businesses to see, understand and anticipate change as it happens, giving them the ultimate strategic advantage so they can act quickly. Our global team works with cutting-edge technology to make a difference around the world and prides itself on being people-first, customer-focused and fun.

Black Sky is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our newly established Product Insights team. This team is responsible for accelerating the delivery of highvalue insight products directly through the Black Sky platform — enabling customers to derive value from Black Sky imagery without relying on multiple external vendors. While the Black Sky imaging constellation provides a powerful foundational layer, the broader market demands turnkey insight products, seamless workflows, and integrated partner solutions.

The Product Insights team will bridge that by designing, building, integrating, and operating scalable product pipelines that make advanced analytics available natively within Black Sky.

As the Engineering Manager for Product Insights, you will lead a team focused on:

• Integrating and operating products from partners or new analytic flows across a variety of modalities
• Developing platform capabilities to host, orchestrate, and disseminate Blacksky products
• Ensuring reliability, consistency, and quality of new and existing insight products delivered to customers
• Collaborating across imagery, platform, partner engineering, and product teams to accelerate insight product timetomarket

The ideal candidate has strong software engineering and cloud infrastructure expertise, experience running production pipelines, familiarity with hosted analytic products (ML or otherwise), and a proven ability to lead a high-performing team in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment. We would love candidates near either our Herndon, VA or Seattle, WA offices but may also consider remote candidates. This role reports to the Senior Director, Ground Systems Software Engineering.

• Build, develop, and retain a high-performing engineering team focused on product hosting, partner product integration, and platform-based product delivery.
• Set technical strategy and roadmap for the Product Insights team, ensuring the platform can scale to support a diverse portfolio of internal and partner insight products.
• Lead design and implementation of new product hosting architectures, including pipeline execution, versioning, reliability, and monitoring.
• Collaborate with product, platform, AI/analytics, imagery, and partner engineering teams to define requirements, align priorities, and accelerate product readiness.
• Identify and remove cross-team roadblocks related to product ingestion, data availability, platform constraints, or partner integration.
• Maintain deep technical involvement through code reviews, architectural decisions, and occasional hands-on development.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, technical excellence, and strong ownership of product reliability and customer impact.
• Proactively identify risks, bottlenecks, and opportunities to accelerate product delivery, especially where new flows or partner…