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Iridium is an award-winning satellite communications company operating the world's only truly global voice and data network, delivering reliable connectivity anywhere on Earth. For more than 20 years, Iridium has powered mission-critical communications for governments, businesses, aviation, maritime, and the rapidly expanding Internet of Things.

Now part of Iridium, Aireon is the world's only space-based air traffic surveillance system, providing real-time visibility of aircraft over oceans, the poles, and remote regions. Together, Iridium and Aireon are helping build a safer, more connected, and more efficient future for global aviation.

Join our team and help shape how the world stays connected. We foster a collaborative, inclusive culture where employees are empowered to innovate, grow professionally, and make a meaningful impact.

Iridium is seeking a product manager to own product responsibility for key parts of our Partner Experience.  Iridium partners around the world build compelling market offers based on the Iridium global network, Iridium products, and Iridium services and management capability.

This product manager role will be responsible for delivering features and functionality that empower and enable Iridium partners.  This work will support all phases of the Iridium Partner journey: evaluation, product development, deployment, operations, and growth.  This product manager will contribute to creating AI-enabled platform capabilities, allowing our partners to use state-of-the-art capabilities to build winning market offers.

This role is central to shaping how our customers connect, integrate, and innovate on top of the Iridium global network. You'll execute on product strategy, guide crossfunctional teams, and drive execution for a portfolio that sits at the heart of our future direction. If you're energized by building great products, thrive in complex technical domains, and want to influence the longterm trajectory of a core business area, this is the challenge you'll want to take on.

• Define new products, services, and applications based on customer needs and competitive offerings which will lead to success in the market.
• Develop detailed and fact-based business cases, market demand descriptions, product definitions, features, and functionality for executive presentations and roadmap decision-making.
• Develop market requirements and product specifications for products and their corresponding services, as well as network, gateway, or billing/provisioning systems.
• Partner with engineering and IT teams to translate marketing requirements into technical implementation.
• Develop and manage the project plan with Program Managers and lead the product through development, beta trials, and commercialization.
• Create technical, user, and marketing documentation for internal and external use for related data products and services.
• Support sales teams via technical presentations, sales training material, white papers, demonstrations, and other customer engagements.
• Assist the sales and marketing product readiness teams ensuring that all organizations are prepared to launch products and services on the plan of record launch date.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Science, Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years total experience, with 1-3 years in Product Management, Technology, or Sales/Sales Engineering role
• Have a people-oriented, "do the right thing" focus and be able to build meaningful relationships with peers and leadership across the company
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues
• Be able to analyze and understand a situation or problem and think critically to make decisions, come up with and evaluate unique solutions, and see those solutions through to completion
• Have a strong sense of urgency in driving projects to completion and be motivated to achieve outcomes and results
• Exceptional MS Office skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and the ability to easily and quickly conduct extensive Internet research

• Experience delivering cloud-native platforms and products (on AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• AI or MCP (Model Context Protocol) experience
• Experience developing AI-Enabled REST API products
• Experience in the cellular communications industry, wireless or satellite products and services
• Experience with requirements development, interactions with operations organizations, customer support and training
• Proficiency in any foreign language

• Be able to work in the office 3 days a week to foster collaboration with the team and stakeholders
• Be able to travel up to 25%

This position primarily works in an office setting and is largely sedentary with the majority of the position working with a computer. The role typically requires the use of basic office equipment such as a phone, video, computer, keyboard, mouse, and printer. 

We 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 four days per week (approximately 80%) in an Iridium office to support collaboration, relationship-building, and professional growth.

Additional Information

This job description outlines the general nature and level of work for this role and is not a comprehensive list of duties, responsibilities, or qualifications. Employees may be assigned additional responsibilities as needed.

Base Pay Range: $95,000 - $125,000 USD

Actual compensation will be determined based on a variety of factors and this range represents an estimate of compensation at the time of posting. Base salary is only one part of our compensation package for this role. You may also be eligible for company stock and annual bonus. Employee benefits also include medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage; 401(k) retirement plan options; paid time off and paid holidays; paid parental leave; and other discounts and perks.  

Iridium is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.