Sr. Components Product Manager

Blue Canyon Technologies

$140K — $190K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7-12 years of relevant experience in aerospace or related industry
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or related field
  • Proven Program Manager experience with Space hardware for commercial or defense sectors
  • Familiar with all phases of the product lifecycle and systems engineering principles
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams without direct authority
  • Strong financial acumen and PMO experience related to cost and risk management
  • Excellent communication skills and attention to detail

Responsibilities

  • Maintain product line vision and roadmap in collaboration with the technical lead
  • Develop business cases for new product initiatives and value positioning
  • Lead cross-functional teams to improve delivery performance metrics
  • Support pricing strategies in collaboration with sales and finance
  • Forecast demand and manage product line budgets, including IRAD efforts
  • Act as the 'voice of the customer' to refine needs and deliver solutions
  • Manage product transitions, obsolescence, and end-of-life planning

Benefits

  • Employer sponsored health, dental, and vision benefits starting the first month after hire
  • Life insurance coverage
  • 401k plan with 4% matching on a minimum 5% contribution
  • Generous paid time off including 3 weeks of vacation, 3 floating holidays, 2 weeks of sick time, and 7 paid holidays annually
  • Parental leave provided
Full Job Description
Position Purpose: The Sr. Components Product Manager owns the strategic, execution, and financial leadership of a defined product line. Partnered with a technical lead, the role drives the full product lifecycle in direct alignment with market dynamics, customer requirements, and business growth objectives. This position leads the BCT XACT product line, a flight-proven Attitude Determination and Control System purpose-built for the rapidly growing small spacecraft market.

BCT is looking for an individual with an entrepreneurial mindset that includes a sharp business mind and a proven ability to strategize and manage the implementation of product line initiatives. This isn't a role for someone who waits to be told what to do. You'll bring an outside the box mindset, sharp commercial instincts, and the conviction to tell the business what it needs to hear. You thrive at the intersection of customer execution and business strategy, and you know how to translate that into product decisions that win in the market.

You're equally comfortable negotiating with customers, setting product roadmap priorities, and pulling cross-functional teams toward a common goal. This role blends the discipline of aerospace Program Management with the growth-oriented mindset of a New Space product leader, and you're ready to own both.

Title: Sr. Components Product Manager

Position Type: Full Time

Pay Range: $140,000 - $190,000

(Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.)

On-site position at our Boulder, CO location (work locations are subject to change based on business need).

Benefits:
  • Employer sponsored health, dental, and vision benefits effective the first of the month following hire date
  • Life insurance
  • 401k (matching 4% with a minimum 5% contribution)
  • Generous PTO (3 weeks of vacation + 3 floating holidays, 2 weeks of sick time, 7 paid holidays throughout the year) and parental leave


Job Responsibilities:
  • Maintain the product line vision and roadmap alongside the technical lead. Align these items across the various business units and product areas such that they align with company financial and technical objectives.
  • Own the business case for new product initiatives, changes to customer value proposition, and hardware market positioning.
  • Lead cross functional teams across engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, and finance to increase the robustness and on-time delivery performance metrics
  • Support pricing strategies in collaboration with sales, finance, and leadership
  • Forecast, then own product line budgets inclusive of any IRAD efforts.
  • Foster relationships with customers and serve as their voice within the business.
  • Monitor and implement action plans associated with product line performance KPIs such as cost per unit, on-time delivery, first pass yield, etc.
  • Manage product transitions, obsolescence, and end of life planning.
  • Evaluation of existing and emerging technologies in conjunction with the product technical lead
  • Work closely with customers to help refine their needs and provide innovative and competitive solutions with existing products
  • Manage flight contracts that meet technical and cost obligations with domestic and international customers
  • Ensure all business is conducted using the highest ethical standards and in compliance with all applicable laws, statutes, and regulations as well as company policies and directives
  • Manage product line Risk and Opportunities
  • Manage complex cross-functional activities such as contract negotiations, scope discrepancies, and/or performance expectations.
  • Provide mentorship opportunities to more junior PMs
  • May include personnel management responsibilities
  • Other responsibilities as assigned


Required Qualifications/Education:
  • 7-12 years of relevant experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Aerospace, Engineering, Systems, Business Administration, or related discipline
  • Demonstrated Space hardware Program Manager experience.
  • Experience with all phases of the product life cycle (business development, concept formulation, requirements flow-down, manufacturing, integration and test, and post-delivery support)
  • Excellent understanding of systems engineering principles and all elements of the product lifecycle
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and execute without direct authority
  • Excellent PMO and financial acumen (cost structures, risk and opportunities, return on investment)
  • Experience supporting customer proposals/bids.
  • Demonstrated soft skills to work with large/small and domestic/international customers within a rapidly changing environment with minimal supervision.
  • Must be able to work in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment with emphasis on rapid prototyping and fielding of capabilities
  • Demonstrated leadership, time management, facilitation, and organizational skills
  • Good documentation and communication skills, with strong attention to detail
  • Related technical experience may be considered in lieu of education
  • Ability to speak Italian, Korean, Hindi, or Finnish is a plus.


Working Conditions:

This job operates in a professional office environment, but in a manufacturing company. This role uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, scanners, filing cabinets and fax machines. BCT anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require BCT to shorten or extend the application window.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time. The employee is occasionally required to stand, bend, reach, and walk. The position requires some light physical effort. This would require the ability to lift or move objects up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift or move objects up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities are required by this job which includes close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus.

We recommend applying directly via the Blue Canyon Technologies website, careers page:
https://www.bluecanyontech.com/careers

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at Blue Canyon Technologies

More Aerospace & Defense Jobs

Find similar Sr. Components Product Manager jobs: