Senior Product Manager - Data Pipeline
About constellr
We are operating in the NewSpace and Agri-Tech sectors, combining engineering, Earth Observation, and agronomy to address one of the biggest challenges of our time: how to ensure global food security!
With offices in Brussels, Freiburg, and Munich we are a diverse team, comprised of highly motivated and passionate professionals who share a common vision to revolutionise decision-making in tomorrow’s smart farming industry.
Our Mission
constellr is at the forefront of precise temperature monitoring from space. Our technology delivers the market's most accurate and dependable thermal data with our Land Surface Temperature model excelling in precisely measuring temperature for organizations that depend on highly accurate insights. Join us in advancing impactful initiatives, particularly in agriculture, where our expertise contributes to transformative projects in global food production.
The Role
As our Senior Product Manager, you will join our team of Product experts and play a key role in developing constellr’s data pipeline processing for geospatial datasets. Reporting directly to our Head of Product, you will have strategic responsibilities ensuring this is scalable. With high visibility across the company and a direct impact on our company’s success, you will help drive and build our state-of-the-art data processing capabilities to serve our customers with land surface temperature data at scale. Your role will involve the following;
- Product Strategy: Develop, shape and execute our product strategy by tackling the most important market opportunities.
- Customer Engagement & Product Discovery: Engage with B2B customers to gather feedback, understand their needs, and ensure the product meets or exceeds their expectations.
- Drive the validations & testing of solution improvements.
- Product Roadmap & Requirement Management: Define and prioritise product ideas, creating a clear product roadmap that guides development efforts.
- Ensure translation of customer needs into coherent product requirements.
- Data Processing Pipeline: Guide & steer the product team in developing the data pipeline for processing geospatial datasets.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Ensure alignment in cross-functional team engineering, marketing, sales, and customer support teams.
- Performance Tracking: Establish and track Objectives Key Results (OKRs) and product metrics to measure product success and identify areas for improvement.
- Leadership: Mentor and guide junior product managers, fostering a collaborative team environment.
Location – Our product team are remotely based across Germany & Belgium with travel and meet-ups at our offices (Freiburg, Munich, Brussels) when required. We offer remote working for this position – however its highly beneficial if you are in Germany or Belgium to connect with the product & wider teams.
About you
- A Master´s degree in Business, Engineering, Data Science, Geospatial Science or a related field.
- Proven senior-level product management experience, successfully managing and launching data, cloud, and SaaS products.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience managing technical and design direction for large-scale systems, creating product roadmaps from conception to launch.
- Deep understanding of data pipelines.
- Experience handling earth observation data including geospatial data is highly beneficial, however, some familiarity is sufficient.
- Ideally knowledge about preparing data sets for statistical analysis and ML/AI applications.
- Experience with product discovery, market research and competitive analysis.
- Ability to think strategically and execute methodically, evolving product strategy based on research, data and market trends.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and fluency in English.
- Proficiency in product management processes & tools (e.g. requirement & backlog management, product roadmaps), experience working in agile teams.
- Leadership: Demonstrated ability to influence multiple stakeholders and experience in guiding cross-functional teams.
Why constellr?
- Join a fast-growing, diverse and motivated team with a strong drive for positive change
- Autonomy to set and deliver against your own goals, develop new skills and capabilities, and lead others to do the same.
- Directly influence your contribution to achieving several of the UN's sustainable development goals, including Zero Hunger, Clean Water, No Poverty and Climate Action
- Be part of a multi-disciplinary, and diverse team with a strong desire to change the world.
- Be a formative part of the team delivering the world’s first commercial infrared constellation into orbit, enabling an unprecedented understanding of our planet and its resources.
Our Benefits
- An attractive virtual shares package (Virtual Share Option Program)
- A company pension scheme (bAV) in cooperation with WWK Lebensversicherung (20% subsidy) for German employees
- Flexible working: we support remote or semi-remote working for many of our roles
- Work-life balance: we value everyone’s time and respect family or personal commitments. We support you to be as productive as you can in the time you have
- Lovely offices in Brussels situated between the attractive Etterbeek and Watermael districts; in Freiburg, southwest Germany, bordering the Black Forest, France and Switzerland; a brand-new office in central Munich, a stone’s throw from the beautiful German Alps and lakes and soon we are opening our office at the heart of Toulouse’s aerospace cluster and the thriving Occitania food and drink scene.
At constellr, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and welcoming workplace. We are an equal-opportunity employer and believe that diversity fuels innovation, creativity, and the ability to tackle complex challenges effectively. We encourage individuals from all walks of life to join us on our mission to reduce global food insecurity.
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