Muon Space designs, manufactures, and operates Halo satellite constellations and ground segments, integrating propulsion, RF/IR and passive microwave sensors, turnkey payload-to-operations services from its high-capacity San Jose production facility.
<h2><strong>About the role</strong></h2> <p>Muon Space is hiring a Staff Product Manager to own two of the highest-leverage software product surfaces in the company: our commercial Data Products business (GNSS-R, MSIR, and AICore-derived offerings) and the Muon Sim platform that underpins our ability to deliver mission-optimized constellations. Reporting to the VP of Product, you will own the productization decisions — pricing architecture, packaging, SLAs, customer tiering, data delivery — that will define the unit economics of our data business for years to come. This is a deliberate Staff-level (L6) IC role: the work requires the seniority to make load-bearing commercial decisions, the technical fluency to engage with platform and infrastructure leadership as a peer, and the judgment to operate across two adjacent surfaces with one owner until portfolio scale warrants a split.</p> <h2><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h2> <h3><strong>Data Products & Commercial Strategy</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Own the commercial product strategy for Muon’s Data Products portfolio, including GNSS-R, MSIR, fire data products, and AICore-derived commercial offerings (defense-aligned variants remain under our Federal PM lead).</li> <li>Define and publish the pricing architecture, packaging, and customer tiering for Muon’s data products — including how capabilities are bundled, what is included at each tier, and how pricing scales with refresh cadence, latency, and AOI / coverage.</li> <li>Define data SLA tiers and align them with downlink prioritization across the constellation; partner with Mission Operations and Bits-to-Ground to ensure SLA commitments are operationally achievable.</li> <li>Partner with the BD Data Manager and Growth org on data contracts, deal structure, and the boundary between standardized packaging and bespoke commercial terms.</li> <li>Drive the shift from bespoke, project-based data contracts to standardized, tiered packaging — a primary ROI vector for the role.</li> <li>Conduct customer interviews, gather feedback on product–market fit, and translate insights into roadmap decisions and pricing experiments.</li> <li>Analyze why deals are won or lost, identify product gaps and competitive advantages, and feed structured insights back into product development.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Muon Sim</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Own product strategy and roadmap for the Muon Sim platform, recognized internally as a core differentiator for Muon’s mission engineering value proposition.</li> <li>Translate complex mission modeling, simulation, and digital-twin requirements into a coherent product surface that serves both internal mission engineering teams and external customers.</li> <li>Define the productization path for Muon Sim — including the high-side variant on the roadmap — and the commercial and licensing model that supports it.</li> <li>Partner with simulation, mission engineering, and software teams to balance fidelity, performance, and time-to-market across releases.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Cross-functional Coordination</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Partner closely with engineering teams across software, data infrastructure, ground systems, and cloud — operating at peer level with infrastructure and platform engineering leadership.</li> <li>Coordinate with the Director of PM — Federal on the boundary between commercial and defense-aligned data product variants.</li> <li>Coordinate with the Junior PM covering Muon Command and ground operations on adjacencies between data delivery and mission operations software.</li> <li>Support Go-To-Market teams with sales enablement, technical documentation, RFP responses, customer demonstrations, and product positioning materials.</li> <li>Work with marketing on product messaging, website content, case studies, whitepapers, and thought-leadership content that drives demand generation for Muon’s data and software portfolio.</li> <li>Collaborate with the VP of Product and the broader PM team on strategic roadmap decisions, prioritization trade-offs, and Series-C-aligned narrative.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Required Qualifications</strong></h2> <ul> <li>8–10 years of Product Management experience, with demonstrated success owning data, SaaS, or API products in technically complex environments.</li> <li>Experience in remote sensing, geospatial, Earth observation, or adjacent deep-tech data domains.</li> <li>Proven track record shipping pricing architecture, packaging, and SLA design for multi-segment data products — and translating those decisions into commercial outcomes.</li> <li>Strong fluency working with infrastructure and platform engineering leadership; able to influence cross-organizational technical investment without direct authority.</li> <li>Experience defining and operating customer-facing data delivery, including APIs, portals, and tiered SLAs.</li> <li>Demonstrated ability to translate customer mission needs into detailed product requirements and acceptance criteria across software and data systems.</li> <li>Experience with configuration control and change management for production data products.</li> <li>Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field; advanced degree preferred.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Nice-to-have Skills</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Familiarity with low latency data product.</li> <li>Familiarity with GNSS-R, MSIR, RF, or other space-based sensing modalities and their commercial applications.</li> <li>Experience productizing simulation, modeling, or digital-twin platforms.</li> <li>Familiarity with LEO constellation operations and the economics of downlink and tasking.</li> <li>Previous experience deploying or scaling a Product function within a space, defense, or deep-tech company.</li> <li>Prior experience in startup or high-growth technology environments.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Salary</strong></h2> <p>The base salary range for this role is $211,000 – $254,000 and will depend on a candidate’s skills, geogra