Director of Product Management-Muon Halo

About the Role

We are seeking a Director of Product Management to help define and lead how Product Management operates at Muon Space. This is a foundational leadership role: you will partner closely with the VP of Product to set the strategic direction for the Muon Halo™ platform, while establishing the processes, frameworks, and culture that will scale the PM function as the company grows through its next stage.

The Muon Halo™ platform spans satellite hardware, embedded software, ground systems, and mission operations — a scope that demands a leader with the technical depth to engage credibly across disciplines and the organizational acumen to align complex, cross-functional teams around shared priorities. You will own significant platform areas end-to-end, contribute directly to product strategy, and help shape how product management works at Muon.

Responsibilities

Platform Strategy & Ownership

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for key areas of the Muon Halo platform, partnering with the VP of Product on prioritization and portfolio-level decisions
• Lead requirements definition across hardware, software, and operations domains — ensuring cohesion across the full platform stack (MuSim, MuOS, MuCore, MuSat, MuDash)
• Drive the architectural decisions that determine how Muon's platform compounds mission-over-mission, emphasizing reusability, interoperability, and scalability
• Define acceptance criteria and validation processes for integrated system capabilities, establishing traceability from customer needs through to delivery
• Own configuration control and change management processes for your platform areas

Scaling the Product Function

• Partner with the VP of Product to define how Product Management is practiced at Muon — the methodologies, rituals, templates, and standards that will serve the team as it scales
• Help establish a PM culture grounded in technical rigor, customer insight, and data-informed decision making
• Mentor and, over time, manage junior and senior PMs as the team grows
• Contribute to PM hiring: help define the roles we need and assess candidates against a clear bar

Go-To-Market & Commercial Partnership

• Lead product marketing collaboration — translating platform capabilities into crisp positioning, messaging, and content across website copy, whitepapers, case studies, and thought leadership
• Serve as a senior technical voice in the sales process: customer meetings, product demonstrations, and RFP responses
• Drive win/loss analysis and ensure competitive and customer insights are systematically fed back into product development
• Guide feature packaging and tiering decisions in partnership with Go-To-Market leadership

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Lead alignment across engineering teams spanning satellite hardware, embedded software, ground systems, and cloud infrastructure
• Partner with mission operations to ensure product designs meet real-world operational requirements
• Interface with manufacturing to align product evolution with production capabilities
• Support program management in coordinating deliverables across concurrent customer missions

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of Product Management experience, with at least 3 years at a senior or lead level in complex technical environments
• Demonstrated experience in space systems engineering — fluency in spacecraft subsystems, ground operations, and mission lifecycle
• Proven track record of owning and delivering products that span hardware and software domains
• Experience working in mission-critical, systems-integration environments where requirements traceability and change control matter
• Strong instincts for product strategy: ability to reason from first principles about what to build, what to defer, and why
• Track record of influencing without authority across engineering, business development, and operations peers
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field; advanced degree preferred

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