{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"f72fcbcd673fb0887baf0f96","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/f72fcbcd673fb0887baf0f96","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/f72fcbcd673fb0887baf0f96","title":"Senior Technical Product Manager","description":"Iridium is an award-winning and innovative satellite communications company with bragging rights to the only network that offers voice and data connectivity anywhere in the world. For over 20 years, Iridium's unique network and services have supported critical communications needs for individuals, businesses, and the evolving Internet of Things.\r\nAt Iridium, we understand the importance of staying connected and the limitations of traditional communications networks. People across the globe, including first responders, humanitarians, global militaries, scientific researchers, and lone workers, as well as ships, aircraft and remote operations all rely on Iridium to stay connected. We take our responsibility for providing these essential communications very seriously and pride ourselves on offering a reliable lifeline when needed. Likewise, Iridium is committed to providing an exciting and innovative workplace, where employees are challenged to think outside the box and collaborate on new, bold ideas and solutions. Our talented teams are passionate about their work and the impact our company makes around the world. Iridium fosters an empowering and inclusive culture that allows employees to genuinely be their best selves. We are looking for others who want to join this truly unique company that celebrates our employees and provides the opportunity to truly make a difference in the world.\r\nWhat We're Looking For:\r\nIridium is seeking an ambitious and motivated Senior Product Manager to join our dynamic Government Team! In this role, you'll be responsible for driving the development of new products and services, working with our partners to create important and exciting new solutions in support of Government customers. You'll be successful in this role if you have the relevant technical knowledge, can think on both tactical and strategic levels, are able to communicate and persuade at all levels of the organization and are adept in a matrix-management, virtual/in-person, ever-changing environment.\r\nThis position requires an active/current Top Secret Security Clearance (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).\r\nWhat You'll Do:\r\nWork independently to perform product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle to align with initiatives and requirements by gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, driving product vision internally within Iridium and externally with Iridium partners and Government customers, and working closely with various groups within Iridium to ensure revenue and customer satisifaciton goals are met\r\nDrive implementation of products and services with partners and Government contracts to maximize Government user adoption by defining short- and long-term initiatives to meet customer requirements, improving product time to market, reducing development costs, ensuring solution quality, improving customer satisfaction, and making working with Iridium a competitive advantage\r\nManage efforts to define and document simple and efficient processes for customers to follow that require minimal questions/issues for the customer during development\r\nSupport creation and modification of license and other agreements for partners and Government customers\r\nPlay a key role in supporting business capture activities within the Iridium government portfolio, including but not limited to providing input for white papers, proposals, and technical exchange meetings\r\nTrain personnel and provide support for partners' implementation of products, services, or operations projects during development, implementation, launch and post-launch\r\nManage the support of existing products and services as they are adopted by partners and customers\r\nWork independently to facilitate the enhancement of capabilities and partner maintenance activities including end-of-life parts, regulatory changes, issues in operation, etc.\r\nFacilitate resellers, manufacturers, developers, and service providers via creation of Iridium inside products and services to ensure the best possible outcomes and continuous improvements for their solutions\r\nEffectively leverage your advanced knowledge to make enhancements to policies and procedures, while supporting the sales team and providing direction to engineering and product development\r\nWhat You'll Need to Succeed:\r\nBachelor's degree in Engineering, or a related field\r\n10+ years of relevant experience in Government funded programs related to the telecommunications industry\r\n5+ years of direct product management experience in a technical industry\r\nExcellent written and communication skills, with the ability to convey products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues clearly and confidently, and recognize and adapt to different communication techniques\r\nExcellent teamworking skills in execution of small and large tasks\r\nAbility to influence cross-function teams without formal authority\r\nCan easily build meaningful relationships with others, including senior leadership outside of your own department, and is comfortable providing constructive feedback to your team members and management\r\nBe able to analyze a situation or problem, generate effective solutions, and see those solutions through to completion\r\nMust possess the creativity and resourcefulness needed to make reliable decisions and determine methods on new assignments\r\nCan thrive in a dynamic environment by handling multiple tasks and managing shifting priorities\r\nBe proactive in sharing knowledge you've learned with others\r\nEnthusiastic, attention to detail, results oriented, organized, motivated and self-driven\r\nThings That Would be Great if You Brought to the Table\r\nAdvanced degree in a technical discipline or business degree\r\nExperience with communications technology and/or positioning & timing technology for U.S. Government platforms and solutions including but not limited to soldier systems, vehicles, aircraft, unmanned solutions, sensors, etc.\r\nExperience with delivering software products in an agile environment\r\nExperience with the development, manufacturing and integration of electronics-based solutions\r\nExperience with IT (Information Technology) environments, cloud architecture, and best practices\r\nExperience with Windows and Microsoft Endpoint Manager\r\nExperience with Android and mobile device technology\r\nExperience in creation of functional specifications, project schedules and building plans to deliver\r\nComfortable dealing with the ambiguity of new products, scenarios, and incubation work\r\nWe'll also need you to:\r\nBe able to travel up to 30%\r\nBe a U.S. Citizen\r\nWork Environment\r\nThis position 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The role typically requires the use of basic office equipment such as a phone, video, computer, keyboard, mouse, and printer.\r\nWe believe in-person connection drives innovation, strengthens mentorship, and builds culture, while flexibility enables employees to do their best work. Under Iridium's Hybrid Work Policy, employees are expected to work at least three days per week (approximately 60%) in an Iridium office to support collaboration, relationship-building, and professional growth.\r\nAdditional Information\r\nThis job description outlines the general nature and level of work for this role and is not a comprehensive list of duties, responsibilities, or qualifications. 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You'll be successful in this role if you have the relevant technical knowledge, can think on both tactical and strategic levels, are able to communicate and persuade at all levels of the organization and are adept in a matrix-management, virtual/in-person, ever-changing environment.\r\nThis position requires an active/current Top Secret Security Clearance (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).\r\nWhat You'll Do:\r\nWork independently to perform product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle to align with initiatives and requirements by gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, driving product vision internally within Iridium and externally with Iridium partners and Government customers, and working closely with various groups within Iridium to ensure revenue and customer satisifaciton goals are met\r\nDrive implementation of products and services with partners and Government contracts to maximize 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