Director/Senior Director, Product Management - ISR Analytics

The Director - Product Management, ISR Analytics will be expected to lead the effort of entering the market with this product, working across Product and Engineering staff, to build these capabilities into a robust, growing, and best-in-class product and in so doing create a winning new business for ICEYE. The successful candidate will have a proven record of building products that deliver insights that are actionable and integrated back to operational workflows. The successful candidate will also have an operational understanding of UX discovery such as user journey mapping as well as UI design best practices. The ideal candidate will have managed the full product lifecycle multiple times: from visioning and market discovery, to road mapping and engineering execution, to alpha, beta, and general availability releases, to full end-to-end product lifecycle management, all in the service of delivering growing and differentiated products. The ideal candidate will have a high level of comfort working in an environment which is changing extremely rapidly both in terms of what the underlying technologies enable as well as what the customer expectations are: ISR Analytics is a core platform forpiece of building a holistic end-to-end solution relying on ICEYE's core imaging capabilities, and there is a generational opportunity as e.g. European nations are looking to build sovereign space-based defense and intelligence capabilities. The successful candidate will have access to resources for executing a winning product roadmap and will carry the responsibility for translating the roadmap into customer success and revenue growth.

Key responsibilities include:

• Product vision: establishing and leading a product vision that animates and engages customers and internal stakeholders
• Market evaluation: identify market needs, conduct competitive benchmarking, identify target market segment(s) and formulate hypotheses about ideal product-market fit. Characterize business case, including revenue opportunity for ICEYE
• Product roadmap: establish the product roadmap based on market inputs and in consultation with internal stakeholders. Build release plans and lead releases across a cross-functional ICEYE team
• Engineering leadership: while the candidate will not directly lead an engineering team, the candidate will be expected to interact daily with engineering resources to resolve advance the roadmap and must bring technical credibility to be effective
• Market leadership: be an industry thought leader with a significant market presence and a leading external voice for ICEYE products
• Product rollout: define rollout strategies for target customer personas. Orchestrate x-functional rollout activities
• Stakeholder management: engage a wide range of internal stakeholders effectively to build enthusiasm and support for supporting the product roadmap
• Investment planning: build internal business cases as necessary to support product investments. Track business case outcomes to ensure accountability for investments
  
  

Requirements

Required Attributes

• 4-year degree in engineering, computer science[1] , or business administration
• 6 years in product management, with experience building and launching analytical applications, applying ML/AI models, and/or other automated data analysis tools. Proven track record of revenue growth and new customer acquisition with these products
• Ability to translate corporate business objectives into winning product strategy and successful product execution
• Ease working across a range of key business stakeholders such as business and governmental customers, sales, engineering, marketing, customer support, and operations. Ability to rally enthusiasm and support for products and roadmap
• Experience designing and launching a user-friendly fit-for-purpose applications
• Experience with a range of analytical tools
• Operational experience with product engineering management methodologies, particularly Agile and/or Kanban[2]
• Experience implementing the Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) framework[3]
• Ability to engage and persuade across all tiers of the organization
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft and/or Google office tools
  
  

Desired (Ideal) Attributes - strong preference for candidates with this experience

• 12+ years of experience in product management, large part of it spent with analytical applications, applying ML/AI models, and data analysis tools, with exceptional UX
• Experience designing, building, and launching products that ultimately generated $25M+ annual revenue
• Experience building products that support multi source data integration
• Experience establishing commercial product partnerships
• People management: experience recruiting, training, developing, and managing staff across the full staff lifecycle
• Experience in the geospatial industry designing and launching geospatial products
• Experience in the satellite imagery industry designing and launching geospatial products
  
  

General Skills

Great communication & leadership skills

• Good and engaging public speaker
• Visible leadership traits and great at building purpose and direction for teams and individuals
• Performs well in front of crowds and small meetings
• Advanced influencing and negotiation skills
  
  

High intelligence level & curiosity

• Very fast thinker, able to quickly resolve problems on his feet
• Witty, quick and funny
• It should be obvious from the conversation that the person is very intelligent
• Broad interests and high-level of curiosity for wide-range of topics
  
  

Analytics Skills

• Ability to translate corporate business objectives into winning product strategy and successful product execution
• Ability to decompose a complex problem into smaller ones and analyze them one by one
• Intuitive feel for what is the right level of depth on analysis of a problem to maximize the value (not too much, not too little)
  
  

Cultural Values

• Hands on person
• CVery curious and detail-ed oriented
• Eager to understand the bigbroad picture, while willing and able to go deep into details
• Proactive and seeking ownership
• Team focused leader