About Capella Space

Capella Space is a pioneer in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite technology and space-based signal intelligence. We empower government, commercial, and research organizations around the world with high-resolution, timely Earth insights that drive better decisions - across defense and intelligence, disaster response, infrastructure monitoring, environmental protection, energy, and more.

As a U.S.-based company, Capella designs, builds, and operates an advanced constellation of commercial SAR satellites in orbit today. Our satellites are backed by a fully automated tasking, collection, and delivery platform, delivering fast, reliable insights when and where our customers need them most. As a subsidiary of IonQ, a global leader in quantum computing, Capella is charting the future of Earth observation. Together, we’re on a mission to bring quantum computing to space - unlocking ultra-secure, encrypted uplink and downlink capabilities, reducing latency, and enabling powerful on-orbit analytics. This visionary integration of advanced remote sensing and quantum technology will support customers with the highest level of data fidelity, security, and speed.

Capella was named one of Fast Company’s 10 Most Innovative Companies in Space in 2023 and is a trusted partner of the U.S. Space Force, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, NASA, the National Reconnaissance Office, and allied government agencies worldwide. Built In recognized IonQ on three of its 2025 Best Places to Work lists.

What Makes Capella Unique?

At Capella, we don’t just imagine what’s possible - we build it. We’re a mission-driven team fueled by curiosity, grit, and a shared commitment to redefining the limits of space innovation. Our environment is fast paced, rooted in humble collaboration. Every team member plays a critical role in shaping the future of our technology and our industry. If you're ready to roll up your sleeves and help solve problems that others call impossible—we're the place for you. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere, and we thrive on diverse perspectives that help us move faster, think deeper, and push the boundaries of innovation. Whether you're new to the space industry or a seasoned expert, you'll find a team that values creativity, integrity, and bold thinking. Join us as we build the future of SAR—and take quantum to space.

About the Role & Team

We are seeking a Staff Technical Product Manager (TPM) to lead the strategy, development, and growth of our Platform and API products that underpin our Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) offerings. This is a highly cross-functional role that bridges engineering, architecture, business, and customer success teams to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable APIs and core platform capabilities.

The product management team at Capella Space is focused on delivering the value of high-resolution SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) to customers across commercial verticals and government organizations, domestically and internationally. Whether their needs are reliable revisit, understanding change, or customized analytics that leverage the power of SAR, the product management team meets our customers where they work and delivers information that helps them achieve their business and mission objectives.

Core to our DaaS business, the product management team’s mission is to massively expand the usefulness and adoption of SAR data for a variety of applications from security to commerce to environmental monitoring. The problems we solve stretch from the ground to space, ensuring that our customers get the data they need, when they need it, in the easiest way possible so that they can do amazing things that we couldn’t have even imagined.

Role Responsibilities

You will be responsible for the core data platform that both human imagery analysts and software systems use to solve a diverse set of problems. Success in this role requires a deep understanding of our customers’ workflows and identifying how to rapidly integrate and improve our data platform with their process processes.

You are highly technical and willing to dive deep with engineers within and outside of Capella. You are a curator who knows how to take complex technical challenges and shape them into simple solutions for our customers. You are a curious learner who seeks to be a strong subject matter expert for the products that you own. You can move ideas from early product discovery through to definition, execution, and go-to-market.

• Contribute to the vision, strategy, and development of Capella’s data platform and APIs, ensuring alignment with the needs of government and commercial customers.
• Partner closely with product managers, product owners, engineering, customer engagement teams, and marketing to build solutions that drive positive business impact.
• Innovate by leveraging a deep understanding of Capella’s capabilities, industry standards, data platforms, APIs, and customer needs to anticipate market opportunities and deliver new, forward-thinking solutions.
• Enhance and optimize a comprehensive data platform that enhances the usability of SAR data and contributes to industry growth.
• Evaluate technical tradeoffs, ensuring feasibility, scalability, and cost optimization in product and platform decisions.
• Align cross-functional teams, keeping stakeholders informed and ensuring collaboration between engineering, UX, and business teams.
• Improve API and web application usability and experience, driving clear documentation, onboarding support, and ecosystem engagement.
• Define and track system performance & reliability KPIs, ensuring high availability, low latency, and seamless scalability.
• Maintain security & compliance, ensuring regulatory standards.
• Lead integration strategy, managing third-party APIs, SDKs, and interoperability across platforms.
• Optimize operational costs, working with cloud infrastructure providers and internal teams to improve hosting efficiency.
• Optimize the platform to improve SAR tasking, collection, processing and dissemination capabilities to improve capacity, latency, security and other key drivers for customers.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience, ideally with technical platforms, APIs, or infrastructure products.
• Proven expertise in DaaS or SaaS environments, with deep knowledge of multi-tenant architecture and cloud-native systems.
• Strong background in B2B, B2G, or B2M enterprise software, including APIs, web applications, and mobile platforms.
• Deep understanding of RESTful APIs, authentication protocols, and API lifecycle management.
• Proficiency with tools like Postman/Bruno, GitHub, GitLab, Jira, and Confluence.
• Collaboration-focused approach, working with engineering and customer-facing teams to assess feasibility and drive adoption of product features and capabilities.
• Experience in platform strategy and roadmap development, prioritization across multiple internal and external stakeholders, and release planning and execution.
• Excellent communication, writing, and cross-functional collaboration skills—particularly adept at bridging the 'what' and the 'how' between business objectives and technical implementation.
• Customer-centric mindset, with a strong ability to translate customer challenges into actionable product direction for engineering teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; MBA or equivalent experience is a plus.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Experience delivering technical products to defense, intelligence, or civil government agencies.
• Product management experience overseeing mission-critical platform systems in aerospace.
• Strong domain expertise in space-based systems, particularly SAR or other imagery-based satellite solutions.
• Experience managing product provisioning or access management workflows.
• Background in building internal platforms or low-code/no-code integration layers.
• Data-driven decision-making with knowledge of data warehouses and SQL.
• Experience integrating ML and AI capabilities into software applications.
• Proficiency in Productboard, Snowflake, Grafana, Hubspot, or comparable tools.
• Delivering customer-centric outcomes by applying product management best practices, including Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC), Agile & Iterative Development, Design Thinking, Systems Thinking, and Scalable & Modular Architecture.

Compensation

The annual salary range for this role as it is posted is $168,282 - $210,353. The final job level and annual salary will be determined based on the education, qualification, knowledge, skills, ability, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location and calibrated against relevant market data and internal team equity. Benefits listed in this posting may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Capella Space.

Benefits/Perks

In addition to an opportunity to take part in an innovative, collaborative and fast-growing business with a highly motivated and skilled team, we also take pride in taking care of our employees. Here are just a few ways that we show our appreciation:

• We provide extensive medical coverage, including strong vision and dental plans, flexible spending accounts, and additional supplemental health options.
• 401K Plan to invest in your long-term retirement goals
• Parental Leave Program
• Paid Flexible Time Off Policy
• Lifestyle Spending Account
• Commuter & Parking Benefits
• Mental Health Resources
• Monthly Phone Stipend
• Furry friends? We’ve got you covered with dog-friendly work environment & them with pet insurance options

Equal Opportunity Statement

Capella Space is an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, and upholding equitable hiring practices.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic under federal, state, or local law, including those with a criminal history, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the CA Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. We actively encourage members of recognized minorities, women, Veterans, and those with disabilities to apply, and we work to create a welcoming and supportive environment for all applicants throughout the interview process. If you need assistance or require an accommodation during the job application process, please notify recruiting@capellaspace.com

To learn more about us, explore our site: https://www.capellaspace.com/ and follow us on X and LinkedIn to see our SAR imagery!