Job Summary:
Viasat is a company dedicated to delivering transformative connections globally, with over 35 years of experience in communication solutions. They are seeking a Technical Product Manager to lead the planning and definition of satellite terminal products, collaborating with engineering teams to meet market needs and enhance customer experiences.
Responsibilities:
• Create and deliver OKRs, business cases, roadmaps, and reduction of technical debt working with Business PdMs, engineering teams, and other Tech PdMs across engineering.
• Ensure Access Edge terminals engineering teams have clarity of requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Drive product roadmaps, and lifecycles to increase ROI (technology reuse, platform convergence), and decrease TCO (quality, diagnostics, supportability, EOL, simpler business process).
• Focus on the customer experience, optimizing every detail from installation to reliable operation.
• Use your technical knowledge to make tradeoffs, estimates, feasibility assessments on your own, and review these with the engineering teams rather than depending on them for every ask.
• Ensure price/performance of the products match the needs of each business.
• Track and monitor technology advancements in the market, and industry standards.
• Identify potential partnerships, help make Build vs Buy decisions.
• Travel up to 20%.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 10+ years of progressive experience in relevant areas and a track record of success.
• 4+ years of experience in a technical product management role.
• Demonstrated success managing connectivity products used directly by a customer (e.g., modems, antennas, mobile phones). Products must have delivered B2C connectivity experiences to consumers (e.g., passengers, crew, mobile user).
• Proven ability working with global, cross-functional teams to successfully define and manage complex technology products.
• Must have been a hands-on engineer with success building software and/or hardware for terminal/modem/mobile phone products. You will use this knowledge and experience to make the decisions/tradeoffs/assessments in the day-to-day life of a Technical Product Manager.
• Technical expertise in embedded software, terminal/modem/phone hardware, satellite technologies, wireless interfaces and waveforms, WiFi, 3GPP/5G/NTN.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to evaluate product performance metrics effectively to inform strategic decisions and future improvements.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with experience conveying complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and senior leadership.
Preferred:
• Demonstrated track record of delivering cross-functional, customer-facing products to ensure a world-class customer experience.
Company:
Viasat is a global communications company that offers satellite services. Founded in 1986, the company is headquartered in Carlsbad, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.