Why LeoLabs?
At LeoLabs, we’re building the living map of activity in space. Through our proprietary global radar network and AI-enabled analytics platform, we collect millions of measurements each day on more than 25,000 objects in low Earth orbit (LEO). Our radar-powered intelligence helps protect critical assets, characterize activity in orbit, monitor emerging threats, and enable safer and more effective operations for commercial and government missions.
We’re not just building technology—we are redefining global security, safety, and transparency in space. As orbital activity accelerates and the operating environment becomes increasingly complex, LeoLabs is a trusted partner for Space Domain Awareness, Space Traffic Management, satellite operations, and national security missions around the world.
If you're looking to work on mission-critical challenges at the intersection of aerospace, national security, sensing, software, data, and AI, your impact starts here. This position is contingent upon final approval, with an anticipated hiring timeline beginning as early as January 2027. We are beginning the search in advance of the anticipated hiring timeline.
LeoLabs is seeking a Radar Product Manager to lead the continued development, commercialization, and growth of our transportable radar product, our radar-based space domain awareness product.
Our transportable radar product combines advanced radar sensing, software, data processing, and operational capabilities to provide customers with persistent, high-quality information about objects and activity in low Earth orbit. Our transportable radar product extends LeoLabs' ability to deploy sensing capability where customers need it and enables a range of commercial and government missions.
This role sits at the intersection of customers, product strategy, radar technology, engineering, operations, deployment, and business objectives. You will be responsible for understanding customer missions and market opportunities, defining where our transportable radar product should compete, shaping the capabilities and configurations customers need, and helping turn advanced radar technology into scalable products and services customers can buy, deploy, and operate.
The ideal candidate is a strong product thinker with both commercial and technical judgment. You should have experience working in the space industry or in a closely related aerospace or national-security environment, be comfortable working with complex hardware and software systems, and be able to translate customer missions and technical capabilities into clear product and business direction.
What You’ll Do
- Own the product and business strategy for our transportable radar product, including product vision, roadmap, market positioning, prioritization, packaging, configurations, and execution
- Develop a deep understanding of our transportable radar product customers, users, missions, workflows, operational environments, procurement considerations, and buying behavior
- Work directly with commercial and government customers, operators, mission partners, internal stakeholders, and subject-matter experts to identify unmet needs, validate product opportunities, and determine where our transportable radar product can create differentiated value
- Identify and prioritize market segments, mission areas, use cases, deployment models, and customer problems where our transportable radar product can create meaningful mission impact and business growth
- Translate customer, mission, and business requirements into clear product requirements, system capabilities, configurations, interfaces, and prioritized development work
- Partner closely with radar, hardware, software, systems, data, infrastructure, and operations teams throughout the product lifecycle, from discovery and definition through development, integration, testing, deployment, operation, and iteration
- Make product investment decisions based on customer value, strategic differentiation, revenue potential, sensor performance, technical feasibility, operational complexity, scalability, and company priorities
- Define how our transportable radar product capabilities, configurations, service levels, and access models are packaged and positioned so customers can clearly understand what they are buying, what mission outcomes it enables, and how it differs from other LeoLabs offerings
- Partner with Sales, Business Development, Marketing, and Customer Success to support customer engagements, technical discussions, demonstrations, proposals, strategic pursuits, pilots, and go-to-market activities
- Help shape pricing, packaging, service models, and commercial structures for our transportable radar product offerings in partnership with Product leadership and other business stakeholders
- Develop a strong understanding of the tradeoffs between radar performance, deployment location, coverage, capacity, tasking, reliability, availability, maintainability, cost, and customer mission outcomes
- Partner with Engineering and Operations to understand radar performance and identify opportunities to improve sensing capability, data quality, coverage, availability, operational efficiency, and customer value
- Help define requirements for how customers interact with and task our transportable radar product, how measurements and data products are delivered, and how our transportable radar product integrates with customer and LeoLabs software systems
- Maintain and communicate a clear product roadmap and ensure alignment across Product, Engineering, Radar Operations, Sales, Business Development, Customer Success, and company leadership
- Define and monitor product, business, and operational metrics that measure customer outcomes, radar performance, availability, utilization, adoption, reliability, deployment effectiveness, revenue impact, and overall product performance
- Lead product launches and internal enablement, ensuring that customer-facing teams can effectively explain, demonstrate, position, and sell our transportable radar product capabilities
- Continuously evaluate competing sensing solutions, emerging radar and sensor technologies, customer acquisition trends, market developments, and evolving space and national-security requirements to identify new opportunities for our transportable radar product
- Distinguish between one-off customer requirements and repeatable market needs, ensuring our transportable radar product evolves as a scalable product family rather than a collection of bespoke radar programs
- Help establish and improve product management practices as LeoLabs continues to scale its product organization
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years of product management experience, preferably with products involving hardware, software, data, sensing, infrastructure, or other complex technical systems
- Professional experience working in the space industry, or in a closely related aerospace, defense, or national-security environment, with demonstrated understanding of space missions, customers, operators, or technologies
- Demonstrated experience owning products or significant product areas from market discovery and product strategy through development, deployment, launch, adoption, and iteration
- Strong business judgment and the ability to connect product decisions to customer mission outcomes, competitive differentiation, revenue opportunities, and company strategy
- Strong customer orientation and experience engaging directly with customers to uncover needs, validate opportunities, and translate feedback into scalable products
- Demonstrated ability to understand complex technical systems and translate technical capabilities, limitations, and tradeoffs into clear product direction and priorities
- Experience working across multidisciplinary engineering teams that may include hardware, software, systems, infrastructure, data, operations, or related technical functions
- Ability to make informed prioritization decisions across competing customer requests, market opportunities, engineering constraints, operational considerations, cost, schedule, and strategic priorities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with engineers, operators, customers, executives, and other technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to use technical performance data, customer feedback, market information, and business considerations to make product decisions
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment where customer needs, technology, operational conditions, and market requirements can evolve quickly
- Curiosity and willingness to develop deeper expertise in radar, RF systems, space surveillance, orbital operations, and related technical domains
- Ability to operate with a high degree of ownership and independently drive product decisions while building alignment across multiple organizations
- Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally to engage directly with customers, partners, deployment teams, and internal stakeholders
- LeoLabs is a global company with customers, radar sites, partners, and users around the world, and this role will require periodic travel to understand customer missions, support key engagements and deployments, and represent the product in-market
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with radar, RF systems, remote sensing, ground-based sensors, satellite sensors, or other advanced sensing technologies
- Experience developing or commercializing products that integrate hardware, software, data, communications, infrastructure, and operational systems
- Direct experience with Space Domain Awareness, Space Situational Awareness, Space Surveillance and Tracking, satellite operations, orbital analysis, or related space missions
- Familiarity with missile warning, missile tracking, and integrated air and missile defense missions, including an understanding of how sensor performance, coverage, latency, tracking quality, and data delivery support operational warning and tracking architectures
- Experience working with satellite operators, U.S. government space organizations, allied defense organizations, intelligence organizations, or commercial space companies
- Familiarity with radar concepts such as detection, tracking, search, revisit rates, coverage, waveforms, beam scheduling, capacity, measurement quality, or sensor tasking
- Familiarity with orbital mechanics, tracking data, state vectors, conjunction assessment, maneuver detection, object characterization, or other space-domain concepts
- Experience with deployed products or infrastructure where reliability, availability, maintainability, logistics, site selection, and operational support are important product considerations
- Experience supporting government acquisition processes, strategic pursuits, proposals, demonstrations, pilots, customer evaluations, or major program captures
- Experience defining product packaging, pricing, configurations, service levels, or go-to-market strategy for complex technical products
- Experience working with products sold through multiple ownership, operating, or service models
- Experience working directly with government and commercial customers in complex enterprise sales environments
- Technical degree or background in engineering, physics, computer science, aerospace, electrical engineering, systems engineering, or a related field
- Active U.S. Government security clearance, or the ability and willingness to obtain and maintain one, is preferred
What Success Looks Like
In this role, success means:
- Our transportable radar product has a clear product and market strategy aligned with LeoLabs' broader business objectives and differentiated from competing sensing solutions
- The organization has a strong understanding of our transportable radar product's target customers, priority missions, deployment models, use cases, value propositions, and commercial opportunities
- Our transportable radar product capabilities and configurations are packaged and positioned in ways that customers can easily understand, evaluate, purchase, deploy, and use
- Our transportable radar product evolves from advanced radar technology into a scalable product family that can support multiple customer missions and business models without excessive customization
- Engineering and Operations have clear product direction, well-defined priorities, and a strong understanding of the customer and business outcomes behind the work
- Product decisions appropriately balance mission outcomes, radar performance, customer requirements, technical feasibility, deployment complexity, cost, schedule, and business value
- Our transportable radar product continues to improve in areas such as sensing performance, data quality, coverage, capacity, availability, reliability, deployability, operational efficiency, and customer usability
- Customers see measurable mission value from our transportable radar product and increasingly integrate its capabilities into their operational workflows
- Our transportable radar product contributes meaningfully to LeoLabs' revenue growth through new deployments, new customers, expansion opportunities, strategic programs, and increased adoption
- Sales and Business Development teams have clearly defined our transportable radar product offerings, compelling demonstrations, strong positioning, and supporting materials that allow them to confidently take our transportable radar product to market
- Product, radar, engineering, operations, and customer-facing teams remain aligned around priorities, product configurations, upcoming capabilities, deployments, and customer commitments
- Our transportable radar product continues to evolve based on customer outcomes, operational performance, market demand, competitive dynamics, technology advances, and LeoLabs' long-term strategy
Compensation
This position is benchmarked to Denver, CO with a base salary range of $171,000–$194,000 plus bonus and equity. Actual base salary will be determined based on the candidate’s work location, experience, skills, and other applicable factors
Perks and Benefits
- 100 USD monthly wellness benefit to support your health and well-being
- $300 USD home office setup stipend, available for use within your first six months
- $75 USD monthly home internet allowance, paid directly through your regular paycheck
- Individual Development Fund to support training, learning, and professional development
- Employee Recognition Program to celebrate contributions and achievements across the team
- Employee Referral Program so you can help us connect with great talent
- And much more!
ITAR Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. More information regarding ITAR can be found at DDTC’s website.
Vendor Notification
LeoLabs does not engage external staffing agencies or third-party recruiting firms for this role. Unsolicited candidate submissions will not be considered.
We are committed to maintaining a respectful and inclusive workplace where employees are valued for their skills, experience, and contributions. We are an equal opportunity employer and make employment decisions based on qualifications, skills, experience, and business needs, consistent with applicable law.