Product Manager – Collection and Capacity
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full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $142,800 - $178,500 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Cloud
About the role
- Optimize and drive efficiency in collection logic across all missions to guarantee alignment with and fulfillment of customer demand
- Maximize overall system capacity and collection throughput across all missions to scale the product offering
- Define and own the core scheduling logic with Missions, including prioritization rules, retry mechanisms, and deconfliction logic in the scheduling systems
- Validate and refine modeling assumptions in close partnership with Missions & Systems teams to ensure the accuracy and reliability of feasibility studies and capacity forecasts
- Design and maintain internal tools and visualization with Missions to streamline and optimize capacity planning, enabling proactive sales support and successful commercial execution
- Collaborate tightly with Tasking and Ordering PM to ensure the backend system architecture and functionality seamlessly support evolving customer offerings and product capabilities of tasking systems
- Lead feasibility studies for commercial planning, providing data driven insights to shape opportunities and strategic decisions
Requirements
- 6+ years of product management experience
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field
- Experience in capacity forecast demand, and the ability to handle dynamic capacity utilization (for example, transportation or logistics workflows)
- Experience evaluating algorithms and models (such as mathematical programming and heuristics) that automate complex scheduling decisions; what to collect, where to aim, and when to execute to minimize operational cost and maximize order fulfillment
- Experience maximizing the productive output (the number of high quality images) from the limited resource (the satellite), while effectively minimizing waste (like unsuccessful tasks or images obscured by cloud cover)
- Ability to navigate ambiguity in a rapidly evolving environment
- Track record of effectively collaborating with Missions and Operations teams to deliver results
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Outstanding written and spoken communication skills and organizational skills
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and prioritize appropriately
- Ability to travel 5% of the year domestically or internationally
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
product managementcapacity forecastingdynamic capacity utilizationalgorithm evaluationmathematical programmingheuristicsscheduling decisionsdata analysisoperational cost minimizationimage quality optimization
Soft skills
collaborationinterpersonal skillscommunication skillsorganizational skillsproblem-solvinganalytical skillstask prioritizationindependenceadaptabilityambiguity navigation
Certifications
Bachelor's degree