Principal Product Manager, Ecosystem

The world still has coverage blind spots. You could help eliminate them at Skylo.

Skylo has pioneered a standards-based approach to satellite connectivity. We connect smartphones and IoT devices directly to satellites. No special hardware, no entirely new networks. Just billions of existing devices, suddenly reachable anywhere on Earth. We're not building toward this future. We're already in it.

Our direct-to-device service is live on millions of activated devices across five continents, covering more than 72 million square kilometers, in partnership with leading satellite operators, mobile network operators, Tier‑1 chipset makers, and OEMs worldwide. And we're just getting started.

At the heart of it all is Skylo's commercial NTN vRAN: a 3

GPP standards-based, cloud-native platform that seamlessly bridges terrestrial and satellite networks. It's the infrastructure that makes true anywhere, anytime connectivity possible.

When you join Skylo, you'll work at the intersection of three markets reshaping how the world stays connected: mass‑market consumer devices, automotive, and industrial IoT. Enabling people outdoors and critical workflows in the world's most remote places.

This is a rare chance to work on technology that matters, at a company that's already proving it works.

Skylo is a global Non‑Terrestrial Network service provider based in Mountain View, CA. It offers a service that allows smartphone and IoT cellular devices to connect directly over existing satellites. Skylo's direct‑to‑device service is now live on millions of activated devices across five continents, with more than 60 million square kilometers of coverage, in partnership with multiple satellite operators, mobile network operators (MNOs), Tier‑1 chipset makers, and OEMs.

Devices connected over satellite are managed and served by Skylo's commercial NTN vRAN, featuring a 3

GPP standards‑based cloud‑native base station and core. Skylo provides an anywhere, anytime connectivity solution that seamlessly roams between terrestrial and satellite networks. Our focus is on enabling connected services for people outdoors and connected workflows across three main verticals: mass‑market consumer devices, automotive, and industrial IoT.

This role is located Mountain View, CA where we are onsite 3 days a week in office.

Skylo is looking for a Principal Product Manager, Ecosystem to define the commercial strategy and adoption path for our device ecosystem. You will sit at the intersection of Skylo's engineering and the global hardware landscape — spanning chipsets, OEMs, and OS providers. Your mandate is to translate complex hardware capabilities into a scalable, high‑quality "Skylo Certified" device portfolio that delivers a seamless user experience.

• Define and maintain clarity on which hardware partners (Chipsets, Modules, OEMs) Skylo prioritizes and why. You will sequence integrations based on customer reach and technical feasibility, ensuring we invest engineering resources in the ecosystems that yield the highest market volume.

• Move beyond "certification" to "service definition." You will explicitly frame the problem of device performance—defining the acceptance criteria for what constitutes a market‑ready "Skylo Certified" product.

• Ensure major ecosystem decisions—such as how strictly to enforce RF standards versus accelerating time‑to‑market—are explicit and documented. You will own the "No‑Go" decisions when hardware fails to meet the success criteria required for a viable service.

• Integrate perspectives that are "not in the room" during technical sprints. You will represent the voice of the OS provider, the OEM's timeline, and the end‑user's UX needs into a single, actionable product view for the engineering teams.

• Bridge the gap between agile software cycles and long‑lead hardware manufacturing. You will maintain alignment between Skylo's feature roadmap and the rigid release schedules of Tier‑1 OEMs and Chipset makers, ensuring adoption of the right 3
  
  GPP standard features to drive new Skylo services.

• Close the loop between field issues and certification standards. You…