Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Skydio’s drone imaging stack, spanning camera modules, sensors, gimbals/stabilization, and customer workflows across photo and video.
Deeply understand customer missions and workflows through field visits, ride-alongs, analytics, and hands-on testing, then translate those insights into clear product direction and priorities.
Define product requirements that connect real-world outcomes to measurable imaging performance, such as resolution, low-light performance, dynamic range, motion/stabilization, latency, reliability, and environmental robustness.
Partner with engineering leaders across hardware, optics, firmware, ISP/imaging pipelines, computer vision, and AI to make smart tradeoffs on architecture, performance, cost, size/weight/power, manufacturability, and schedule.
Establish clear success metrics and use usage analytics, captured media quality, and direct customer feedback to drive continuous improvement and ultimately own the outcome.
Collaborate with sales, solutions, and customer success to support deployments, understand adoption barriers, and ensure products meet the customer need throughout their lifecycle.
Partner with product marketing to develop launch plans, product positioning, and messaging to bring your products to market and drive meaningful customer impact.

Requirements

5+ years of experience defining and delivering complex hardware products with tightly integrated software, with clear ownership of roadmap and execution.
Deep technical understanding of IoT or camera/sensor product technologies, with a natural ability to translate into customer needs.
Ability to lead product decisions through ambiguity and technical tradeoffs, and to communicate clearly with engineers, executives, and customers at the right level.
A track record of launching robust, reliable, and end-user-facing products for enterprise, public safety, or national security customers.
Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to produce crisp PRDs, decision docs, and launch narratives.
Customer-obsessed mindset and a natural instinct to spend time with our customers in their day-to-day.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical discipline (advanced degree and/or MBA is a plus, not required).

Benefits

In addition to base salary, Skydio full-time employees are eligible to enroll in our benefit plans and take advantage of a variety of incentives and stipends

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools

product visionproduct strategyproduct roadmapcamera modulessensorsgimbalscomputer visionAIIoTphoto and video imaging

Soft Skills

customer understandingcommunicationleadershipcollaborationcustomer-obsessed mindsetdecision-makinganalytical thinkingproblem-solvingadaptabilitycreativity

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in engineeringBachelor’s degree in computer scienceadvanced degreeMBA