[Hiring] Manager, Product Insights @BlackSky

Role Description

BlackSky is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our newly established Product Insights team. This team is responsible for accelerating the delivery of high-value insight products directly through the BlackSky platform — enabling customers to derive value from BlackSky imagery without relying on multiple external vendors.

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 time-to-market

Responsibilities

• 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 integrations require novel approaches.
• Support sprint planning, team capacity management, and roadmap development in partnership with product leadership.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• A minimum of eight (8) years of professional experience in software engineering, including experience building or operating complex distributed, autonomous, or mission-critical systems.
• At least two (2) years of experience leading engineering teams as a people manager or technical lead with formal leadership responsibilities.
• Minimum of two years of experience managing or leading high-performing engineering teams, including hiring, capacity planning, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Demonstrated experience designing and building scalable production software solutions and architectures.
• Hands-on experience with cloud services such as AWS EKS, S3, EC2, Aurora / RDS, SQS, SNS, Batch, etc.
• Excellent communication skills and expert at bridging the gap between highly technical teams and non-technical business units.
• Some programs this role supports may require the candidate to be a U.S. citizen.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree (or higher) in a relevant technical field.
• Ten or more years of professional engineering experience, including leadership of teams responsible for high-availability or mission-critical software.
• Two or more years of experience in the geospatial industry.
• Knowledge and experience with MLOps and DataOps as a practice.
• Experience with distributed compute environments such as Kubernetes and Dask.
• Strong Python or Golang proficiency and experience writing production software for data ETL, micro-services, geospatial, data analytics, and/or cloud deployment.
• Knowledge of system safety, fault tolerance, redundancy, and recovery strategies in autonomous or operationally sensitive environments.
• Proven track record partnering with Product, Sales, and Executive leadership to align roadmaps with business goals.
• Prior experience aligning engineering execution with both commercial production SLAs and program-specific requirements, deliverables, or milestones.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life and AD&D, voluntary life and AD&D insurance
• BlackSky pays 100% of employee-only premiums for medical, dental and vision and contributes $100/month for out-of-pocket expenses!
• 15 days of PTO, 11 Company holidays, four Floating Holidays (pro-rated based on hire date), one day of paid volunteerism leave per year, parental leave and more
• 401(k) pre-tax and Roth deferral options with employer match
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs
• Employer matching donations
• Professional development
• Mac or PC? Your choice!
• Awesome swag