Product Manager

The role

The Product Manager will own the product definition for spacecraft platforms and mission services. This role involves managing the product roadmap, defining requirements, and working across engineering, supply chain, and business development to meet market needs.

What you will do

• Own the product roadmap for the spacecraft platform.
• Define platform requirements, standard interfaces, and configurations.
• Own the mission services offering around the platform.
• Work with customers and Business Development to turn needs into product requirements.
• Select customer requests that become platform changes or services.
• Partner with Mission Integration to meet payload-side needs.
• Work with engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, and test on production rate and cost.
• Bring lessons from testbed and flight vehicles into the platform.
• Support pricing and packaging with Finance and Business Development.
• Write and maintain product specifications and customer-facing documentation.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of experience in product management or technical product ownership for complex hardware or hardware-software systems.
• Experience taking a hardware product from requirements through production and customer delivery.
• Experience in satellite manufacturing or related industries (aerospace, defense, or high-tech).
• Strong technical understanding of spacecraft or other complex hardware systems.
• Experience owning a product roadmap and making tradeoffs across cost, schedule, performance, and customer needs.
• Experience working directly with customers and turning their needs into clear product requirements.
• Strong communication skills, including presenting to executives and customers.
• Ability to make good decisions with incomplete information in a fast-paced environment.
• Willingness to travel as needed for customer meetings and site visits.
• U.S. Person status

Nice to have

• Experience with configurable or productized hardware platforms, such as product lines with standard interfaces and block upgrades.
• Experience with defense, intelligence, or government customers and procurement.
• Experience in a production-rate manufacturing environment.
• Familiarity with systems engineering, requirements management, and interface control.

Benefits

• Equity in Apex
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents
• $100k life insurance at no cost
• Starting at 15 days vacation, growing to 20+ days annually
• 10 paid holidays
• 100% match on first 3% of 401(k), 50% match on next 2%
• 8 weeks paid parental leave
• Childcare reimbursement up to $350/day for work-related travel
• Daily catered lunch and unlimited snacks
• Monthly office socials, pickleball tournaments, run club, and gatherings
• Dream desk setup

Before you apply

• Must qualify as a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or individual granted asylum) or be able to obtain required export authorizations.

About the company

Apex manufactures satellite buses at scale using software, vertical integration, and hardware designed for manufacturing. The company is a fast-growing startup that has raised more than $500M in funding.