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title: 'Product Manager- Software Products at Taara'
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# Product Manager- Software Products at Taara

- **Company:** Taara
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/taaraconnect/3322dff3-5add-4caf-91da-a91f6a550d2e

## Job description

About the Team: Taara extends and amplifies global communications infrastructure using beams of light to deliver high-speed connectivity. Born at X, Google’s moonshot factory, Taara works with enterprise customers, Physical AI companies, and fiber operators, and internal teams to plan, deploy, and operate optical wireless networks around the world. As Taara scales deployments and evolves its software products, we are looking for a Product Manager, Software Products to shape and improve the User Experience (UX) across all customer facing product surfaces. About the Role: This role will own and evolve Taara's software products across customer-facing applications and embedded terminal software. You will work closely with engineering, UX design, Customer Success, and users to translate customer needs into clear technical product requirements, prioritize improvements, and deliver an integrated software experience. The ideal candidate combines strong software technical knowledge with business judgment and the ability to collaborate across multiple engineering disciplines. Success in this role means delivering a cohesive software product experience across Taara's customer-facing applications and embedded systems. You will define clear product requirements, identify dependencies and integration risks, and partner with engineering to prioritize features, reliability improvements, and customer-impacting issues. You will use customer feedback, product telemetry, and measurable outcomes to guide decisions and continuously improve software quality and user experience. How you will make 10x impact:

- Own the product scope, requirements, and prioritization across Taara's customer-facing software applications and embedded terminal software.
- Translate customer and internal needs into clear product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Drive product road mapping by defining priorities, sequencing releases, and aligning stakeholders on what to build next and why.
- Partner closely with engineering and UX design to deliver features that balance technical feasibility, usability, and business outcomes.
- Work with customers and internal teams to understand real-world use cases, gather feedback, and prioritize enhancements.
- Collaborate with marketing, sales, and customer success to support product launches, enablement, and adoption.
- Help shape and validate analysis, reporting, and visualization features, including exploration of AI-assisted workflows where appropriate.
- Conduct market and competitive analysis to identify customer needs, evaluate software capabilities, and inform product features and roadmap priorities.
- Monitor product usage and feedback to inform iteration and continuous improvement.
- Define and monitor product success metrics using customer feedback, usage data, and telemetry to assess software quality, reliability, and customer experience improvements.
- Product requirements are clear, actionable, and well-aligned across teams.
- Engineering teams build with confidence and minimal rework.
- Features ship in a thoughtful sequence aligned to real user needs and operational priorities.
- Customer feedback and usage insights meaningfully influence product decisions.
- User experience improvements are measurable and reflected in reduced friction, faster adoption, and clearer workflows across the software products.

What you should have:

- 5+ years of product management experience delivering technically complex software products, with demonstrated ability to work closely with software engineering teams on architecture, system dependencies, and product requirements.
- Experience translating customer and technical requirements into clear product specifications, user stories, and prioritized backlogs, with an understanding of software integrations and system-level dependencies.
- Strong technical understanding of software products, with the ability to collaborate effectively with engineering teams on technical requirements, integrations, and dependencies.
- Ability to conduct user interviews and synthesize insights into clear product direction.
- Comfort working cross-functionally with engineering, UX, and customer-facing teams.
- Experience using data, feedback, or product signals to inform prioritization and iteration.
- Experience using customer feedback, product telemetry, software quality metrics, and business priorities to guide product decisions and measure improvements.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to explain product decisions clearly to diverse stakeholders.
- Ability to work in the Sunnyvale office at least 3 days per week.

It would be great if you also had these:

- Prior hands-on software development or coding experience.
- Familiarity with technical systems, infrastructure products, or complex workflows is a plus.
- Experience/Knowledge with embedded software, cloud platforms, networking infrastructure, or products that integrate multiple software components.
- Experience managing B2B SaaS products or platforms with frequent software releases.
- Comfort operating in startup environments and managing ambiguity.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000-$180,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

## About Taara

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Taara uses invisible beams of light to deliver high-speed, low-latency wireless internet connectivity, acting as a fiber alternative for hard-to-reach areas.
- **Entity Type**: Private (spun out from X, Alphabet’s Moonshot Factory in March 2025; backed by Series X Capital, with Alphabet retaining a minority stake)
- **Headquarters**: Sunnyvale, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2025 (spin-out); predecessor Project Taara began in 2017
- **Founders**: Mahesh Krishnaswamy

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Telecommunications technology / Free-space optical communications
- **Target customers**: B2B – mobile operators, wireless ISPs, fiber operators, enterprises, smart city operators, government/emergency response, and innovation partners (satellite operators, photonics companies)
- **Mission**: “Bringing high-speed, affordable and abundant connectivity to people everywhere using beams of light.”

## Products & Services
- **Taara Lightbridge**: Free-space optical terminal delivering up to 20 Gbps over line-of-sight distances up to 20 km with carrier-grade availability. Used for backhaul, fronthaul, and mesh.
- **Taara Lightbridge Pro**: Enhanced version offering “five nines” (99.999%) availability for mission-critical networks.
- **Taara Beam**: First product built on Taara's Integrated Photonics Platform, designed for expansion with flexibility in a smaller form factor.
- **Integrated Photonics Platform**: Silicon photonics chip that uses light to transmit data through the air, enabling miniaturized terminals and reduced mechanical complexity.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – undisclosed round led by Series X Capital at spin-out (2025); Alphabet retains minority stake
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Series X Capital, Alphabet (via X Development); strategic partners include T‑Mobile, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Econet Group, Digicomm International
- **Growth Signals**: Deployments in over 20 countries across Africa, India, North America, and Southeast Asia; recognized as TIME Best Invention of 2024 and Fast Company World Changing Ideas Award; successful live events connectivity (Coachella, Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta with T‑Mobile)

## Competitive Advantages
- **No trenching or spectrum licensing**: Light beams travel through air, avoiding costly fiber deployment and radio spectrum constraints.
- **Rapid deployment**: Can be deployed in hours instead of months – ideal for disaster recovery and temporary capacity.
- **Silicon photonics platform**: Proprietary chip technology that shrinks hardware and lowers cost, enabling mass scalability.
- **Fiber-class performance**: Delivers symmetrical 20 Gbps+ with ultra-low latency, competing directly with fiber in capacity.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand photonics-based connectivity** beyond telecom into data centers, industrial campuses, and satellite communications.
- **Scale manufacturing** of its Integrated Photonics Platform to serve global demand.
- **Deepen partnerships** with mobile operators, internet service providers, and government entities to close the digital divide.

## Why Work Here
- **Innovation pedigree**: Born inside X (Google’s Moonshot Factory) – a culture of tackling world-scale challenges with ambitious technology.
- **Mission-driven impact**: Work directly on bringing affordable internet to underserved communities and disaster zones.
- **Cutting-edge tech**: Hands-on with advanced photonics, optical engineering, and system-level hardware/software design.
- **Growth phase**: Recently spun out as an independent company – opportunity to shape engineering culture and processes from an early stage.
- **Hybrid/office**: Based in Sunnyvale, CA; roles range from hardware engineering (optical, mechanical, FPGA) to software (backend, Linux, cloud) and go-to-market (sales, customer success). Per company careers page: open roles include Principal Optical Engineer, Director of Product Management, Senior Backend Software Engineer, etc.
- **Perks & culture**: Described as “a new technological era” with a focus on collaboration, rapid iteration, and global impact.

## Sources
1. [taaraconnect.com](https://www.taaraconnect.com/) – Homepage product details
2. [taaraconnect.com/careers](https://www.taaraconnect.com/careers) – Open roles and engineering focus
3. [taaraconnect.com/about](https://www.taaraconnect.com/about) – Leadership, history, milestones
4. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taara_(company)) – Company overview, spin-out, funding, deployments

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