[Hiring] Radar Product Manager @LeoLabs, Inc.

Role Description

LeoLabs is seeking a Radar Product Manager to lead the continued development, commercialization, and growth of our transportable radar product, our radar-based space domain awareness product.

Our transportable radar product combines advanced radar sensing, software, data processing, and operational capabilities to provide customers with persistent, high-quality information about objects and activity in low Earth orbit. This role sits at the intersection of customers, product strategy, radar technology, engineering, operations, deployment, and business objectives.

• Own the product and business strategy for our transportable radar product, including product vision, roadmap, market positioning, prioritization, packaging, configurations, and execution.
• Develop a deep understanding of our transportable radar product customers, users, missions, workflows, operational environments, procurement considerations, and buying behavior.
• Work directly with commercial and government customers, operators, mission partners, internal stakeholders, and subject-matter experts to identify unmet needs, validate product opportunities, and determine where our transportable radar product can create differentiated value.
• Identify and prioritize market segments, mission areas, use cases, deployment models, and customer problems where our transportable radar product can create meaningful mission impact and business growth.
• Translate customer, mission, and business requirements into clear product requirements, system capabilities, configurations, interfaces, and prioritized development work.
• Partner closely with radar, hardware, software, systems, data, infrastructure, and operations teams throughout the product lifecycle.
• Make product investment decisions based on customer value, strategic differentiation, revenue potential, sensor performance, technical feasibility, operational complexity, scalability, and company priorities.
• Define how our transportable radar product capabilities, configurations, service levels, and access models are packaged and positioned.
• Partner with Sales, Business Development, Marketing, and Customer Success to support customer engagements, technical discussions, demonstrations, proposals, strategic pursuits, pilots, and go-to-market activities.
• Help shape pricing, packaging, service models, and commercial structures for our transportable radar product offerings.
• Develop a strong understanding of the tradeoffs between radar performance, deployment location, coverage, capacity, tasking, reliability, availability, maintainability, cost, and customer mission outcomes.
• Partner with Engineering and Operations to understand radar performance and identify opportunities to improve sensing capability, data quality, coverage, availability, operational efficiency, and customer value.
• Help define requirements for how customers interact with and task our transportable radar product.
• Maintain and communicate a clear product roadmap and ensure alignment across Product, Engineering, Radar Operations, Sales, Business Development, Customer Success, and company leadership.
• Define and monitor product, business, and operational metrics that measure customer outcomes, radar performance, availability, utilization, adoption, reliability, deployment effectiveness, revenue impact, and overall product performance.
• Lead product launches and internal enablement, ensuring that customer-facing teams can effectively explain, demonstrate, position, and sell our transportable radar product capabilities.
• Continuously evaluate competing sensing solutions, emerging radar and sensor technologies, customer acquisition trends, market developments, and evolving space and national-security requirements.
• Distinguish between one-off customer requirements and repeatable market needs.
• Help establish and improve product management practices as LeoLabs continues to scale its product organization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience, preferably with products involving hardware, software, data, sensing, infrastructure, or other complex technical systems.
• Professional experience working in the space industry, or in a closely related aerospace, defense, or national-security environment.
• Demonstrated experience owning products or significant product areas from market discovery and product strategy through development, deployment, launch, adoption, and iteration.
• Strong business judgment and the ability to connect product decisions to customer mission outcomes, competitive differentiation, revenue opportunities, and company strategy.
• Strong customer orientation and experience engaging directly with customers to uncover needs, validate opportunities, and translate feedback into scalable products.
• Demonstrated ability to understand complex technical systems and translate technical capabilities, limitations, and tradeoffs into clear product direction and priorities.
• Experience working across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Ability to make informed prioritization decisions across competing customer requests, market opportunities, engineering constraints, operational considerations, cost, schedule, and strategic priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment.
• Curiosity and willingness to develop deeper expertise in radar, RF systems, space surveillance, orbital operations, and related technical domains.
• Ability to operate with a high degree of ownership and independently drive product decisions.
• Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally.

Benefits

• 100 USD monthly wellness benefit to support your health and well-being.
• $300 USD home office setup stipend, available for use within your first six months.
• $75 USD monthly home internet allowance, paid directly through your regular paycheck.
• Individual Development Fund to support training, learning, and professional development.
• Employee Recognition Program to celebrate contributions and achievements across the team.
• Employee Referral Program to help connect with great talent.
• And much more!

Compensation

This position is benchmarked to Denver, CO with a base salary range of $171,000 – $194,000 plus bonus and equity. Actual base salary will be determined based on the candidate’s work location, experience, skills, and other applicable factors.