Senior Technical Product Manager - TeraWave - Government

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Lead TeraWave's engagements with government customers, from first meetings through technical interchange meetings, working sessions, and executive briefings, at classification levels up to TS/SCI.
• Serve as the Voice of the Customer for the government segment by capturing and structuring VoC from every engagement and making it available to engineering, strategy, and leadership.
• Build lasting relationships with program offices, operational users, research labs, and acquisition organizations across defense, intelligence, civil, and allied governments.
• Represent TeraWave at industry days, conferences, and government working groups.
• Translate customer needs into clear, testable product requirements and proposed changes to existing requirements, with documented rationale and traceability.
• Own the government product roadmap and service offerings, including service tiers, security and resilience features, and integration with government terminals and networks.
• Quantify how requirement changes affect capacity, cost, schedule, pricing, and revenue, and work with Finance to keep the segment business case and financial model current.
• Partner with engineering to assess the cost and feasibility of government-driven requirements, and drive tradeoffs to a decision with clear owners and dates.

Job requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field, such as engineering, physics, mathematics, or computer science.
• 8+ years of experience in national security, military, or government space programs, in product management, technical program management, or a closely related role.
• Demonstrated ability to translate customer needs into clear, testable requirements for hardware and software engineering teams.
• Financial modeling fluency: able to build and interpret unit economics, pricing models, and revenue projections, and to connect requirements decisions to the business case.
• Executive-level writing and briefing skills, including decision memos and presentations to senior government and company leaders.
• U.S. citizenship, with the ability to obtain and maintain a TOP SECRET clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• MBA or equivalent graduate degree.