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# Principal Product Manager - Space Systems at ICEYE US

- **Company:** ICEYE US
- **Location:** Herndon
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/iceye-us-jobs/fecd74c3-ba89-4e2c-a54c-dd2fa0bb132f

## Job description

Principal Product Manager, Space Systems

At ICEYE, we design, build and operate the largest fleet of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites in the world. Using advanced technology, our constellation collects topographical data about any location on Earth, day or night, through any weather conditions.

Headquartered in Southern California, our customers are society’s heroes – intelligence professionals, warfighters, first responders, and scientific researchers. As a trusted mission partner, the United States and its allies depend on us for critical information when it matters most.

## Role Description

We’re looking for a confident leader who can guide cross-functional teams in establishing a new range of capabilities and market facing products that meet customer needs and grow market share for ICEYE US.

This role involves significant collaboration with ICEYE US product management, engineering, sales and customer delivery teams through all aspects of the product development and delivery lifecycle.

Through that collaboration, this role is responsible for establishing and delivering a world class payload products capable of integration with a variety of platforms. This role is highly focused on providing value to both domestic and international government agencies.

Active customer interaction and advocacy, including significant interactions with partners, will be needed to understand and codify requirements, help to manage relationships with representatives within the customer’s organization, drive product improvements and competitive advantage for ICEYE US. The Product Manager will play the lead role in quantifying customer value to the product development organization, informing our overall strategy and product roadmap.

This person should be a highly technical leader with a proven ability to establish product strategy for the full product lifecycle.

## Responsibilities

- Ownership of the Vision and Strategy for our commercial payloads.
- Leads the full product lifecycle for our commercial payloads line of business which includes refining and potentially diversifying the product offering, guiding development prioritization, go-to-market strategy, and product release.
- Fully understands customer use cases and creates product strategy that describes technical requirements, operational impacts and ROI
- Develops/maintains the ICEYE US commercial payloads product roadmap, in collaboration with the payload engineering teams and others within product management and sales
- Deeply understands the product and capability shortfalls; recommends and prioritizes solutions to leadership to inform future roadmap decisions
- Leads product launch checklist(s) and coordinates with the respective teams on OKR execution to ensure go-live readiness and high product reliability
- Generates and maintains product information and documentation for internal ICEYE US stakeholders, partners, and customers
- Evaluates non-standard product offering/services and supports proposal development based on current and future capabilities.
- Coordinates with the US regulatory teams as needed

Required Qualifications

- Must be a U.S. citizen with an active U.S. Government security clearance TS/SCI
- Master’s degree in a relevant field. Additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree
- Minimum of 10 years of related experience, preferably in the development of space based capabilities
- Demonstrated experience in project or program management including the release or delivery of complex or highly technical capabilities
- Demonstrated experience with space payloads, bus integration, or space industry hardware partnerships.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience defining the Vision and Strategy for commercial or government focused product offerings
- Demonstrated experience with RF collection capabilities and customers or the market for space based remote sensing technologies.
- Product Management experience including roadmap development, prioritization across multiple internal and external stakeholders, release planning, and execution
- Experience with product launches including GTM strategy

Pay Range and Compensation Package

- The estimated base salary range for this role is $190k-$230k depending on experience
- Other benefits include health coverage, flexible PTO, a friendly work environment, plus extra fun perks!

Physical Requirements

This position primarily works in an office environment. It requires the ability to sit or stand for long periods of time and frequent walking. Daily use of a computer, phone, office equipment and other computing and digital devices is required. Some travel may be necessary – the ability to travel by car, plane, train, bus, vessel, or metro, operate a motor vehicle and maintain a valid Driver’s License and/or effectively navigate public transportation is required.

While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee must be able to read and respond to inter-office communications as well as effectively participate in meetings. The employee is often required to sit and use their hands or fingers, to lift up to 50 lbs., pull, push, carry, handle, or feel. The employee is required to carry, handle items, reach with arms and hands, to stoop, kneel, or crouch; talk, or hear. Mental demands may require prolonged concentration, reading comprehension, understanding and interpretation of concepts, ideas, and philosophies. The physical demands of the position described herein are essential functions of the job and employees must be able to successfully perform these tasks for extended periods. Reasonable accommodations may be made for those individuals with real or perceived disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job described unless such accommodations would cause ICEYE US an undue burden.

## EEO Statement

ICEYE US is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law.

## About ICEYE US

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: ICEYE US delivers synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imagery and space systems to U.S. government agencies, allies, and commercial partners for persistent monitoring, national security, disaster response, and environmental intelligence.
- **Entity Type**: Private (US subsidiary of ICEYE Oy, a venture-backed Finnish parent company)
- **Headquarters**: Irvine, California, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (parent company ICEYE founded in 2014)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (parent company founders include Rafal Modrzewski)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Defense and national security, space-based earth observation, geospatial intelligence, environmental monitoring, disaster response
- **Target customers**: U.S. government agencies (including DoD and intelligence community), allied governments, defense contractors, commercial enterprises
- **Mission statement**: “Improve life on Earth by delivering truth from space” — with a focus on “relentless readiness for national, economic, and environmental security”

## Products & Services
- **SAR Data Products**: Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery in Dwell (25 cm resolution), Spot (50 cm), Strip (3 m), and Scan (15 m) modes. Accessible through the world’s largest commercial SAR constellation, enabling day/night, all-weather imaging with rapid revisit times.
- **Space Systems**: Vertically integrated design, build, and operation of miniaturized SAR satellites; flight-proven platforms available for partner missions.
- **Solutions for National Security**: Persistent monitoring for maritime awareness, border security, counter-trafficking, infrastructure surveillance, and tactical intelligence.
- **Solutions for Economic Security**: Supply chain monitoring, port security, resource management, illegal fishing detection.
- **Solutions for Environmental Security**: Climate research, disaster response, Arctic monitoring, environmental impact assessment.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (parent company ICEYE was valued at over $1.8B in its 2024 Series D, but ICEYE US is a subsidiary)
- **Key Metric**: Headcount of 63 employees (+59.2% year-over-year as of mid-2026); parent company operates a fleet of 50+ satellites
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Parent company investors include Seraphim Space, True Ventures, and others. Key U.S. partner/customer: National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) under the Strategic Commercial Enhancements Program.
- **Growth Signals**: 207.6% yearly growth in LinkedIn followers; 400% quarterly increase in job postings; appointment of Ann Stevens as CEO (June 2026); NRO contract win

## Competitive Advantages
- Operates the **world’s largest commercial SAR satellite constellation**, providing unmatched revisit and coverage.
- **25 cm resolution** from a small satellite platform — the industry’s highest fidelity commercial SAR product.
- **All-weather, day/night** persistent monitoring capability — cloud, smoke, and darkness do not hinder data collection.
- **U.S. soil** design, build, launch, and operations (Irvine, CA) — critical for national security customers.
- **Vertical integration** of satellite production and ground systems enables rapid iteration and cost efficiency.
- **AI integration** for automated analysis and faster decision-making.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening partnerships with U.S. defense and intelligence agencies, as evidenced by the NRO contract and CEO appointment of a national security veteran.
- Expanding the constellation to increase revisit frequency and resolution capabilities.
- Enhancing AI-driven analytics and real-time data dissemination to shorten the “observe to action” cycle.
- Growing the U.S. workforce and strengthening Southern California’s defense-tech ecosystem.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture**: Direct impact on national security, disaster response, and environmental resilience — “your work benefits humanity.”
- **Benefits**: 401k matching, up to 12 weeks paid parental leave, industry-leading medical/dental/vision including HSA, unlimited PTO, flexible work arrangements and commuter benefits.
- **Growth**: Rapid headcount growth (+59% YoY) and expanding contract portfolio provide career advancement opportunities.
- **Culture values**: “Act as one,” “Help others,” “Drive effective teamwork,” “Have fun” — collaborative, resourceful, and high-trust environment.
- **Work policy**: Flexible work arrangements available (hybrid likely; specific remote policy not detailed).
- **Engineering culture**: Hands-on work with advanced satellite and radar technology, software-defined architecture, and AI — pushing the boundaries of space-based monitoring.

## Sources
1. [iceye.us - Company Overview](https://iceye.us/)
2. [iceye.us - Careers page](https://iceye.us/join-us)
3. [iceye.us - Who We Are](https://iceye.us/who-we-are)
4. [iceye.us - What We Do](https://iceye.us/what-we-do)
5. [linkedin.com - ICEYE US Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/iceyeus)

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