Product Manager

The role

You will define product requirements and roadmap for your area, working closely with engineering to decide what is realistically doable. You will also run customer discovery and partner engagement, and present recommendations to executives.

What you will do

• Spend most of your time with engineering to understand architectures, constraints and dependencies
• Translate strategic direction into clear requirements and use cases, followed down to Jira tickets
• Surface and shape good ideas from engineering and connect them to a product rationale
• Define success criteria for each capability and verify they are met
• Maintain an accurate shared view of Loft's product capabilities and gaps
• Run customer discovery interviews alongside business development
• Engage directly with partners building on the onboard AI application platform
• Own the roadmap for your perimeter, balancing customer needs, engineering reality and strategy
• Negotiate scope and delivery commitments with engineering leadership
• Prepare recommendations and presentations for top-executive audiences

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience, including hands-on product management
• Domain experience in at least one of: earth observation, embedded systems, aerospace systems, security & defense
• Understanding of both the market and the technology
• Structured and data-driven, able to show the analysis behind recommendations
• Working knowledge of both hardware and software development lifecycles
• Proficient using and configuring Jira and Confluence
• Fluency in English, written and spoken
• Willingness to travel to other Loft offices and to customers
• Comfort being challenged and challenging others in a fast-moving environment
• High autonomy and a bias for action

Nice to have

• Fluency in French
• Experience with AI/ML products, edge computing, or developer and partner platforms
• Experience with satellite operations, constellation services, or ground segment products
• Exposure to institutional and defense customers and their procurement cycles
• Experience in a fast-growing NewSpace company or venture-backed deep-tech startup
• Professional experience working with international teams across time zones

Benefits

• 100% company-paid medical, dental and vision for you and your dependents
• 100% company-paid life, AD&D and disability insurance
• Fully paid parental leave: 16 weeks for birthing parents, 10 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Flexible time off and 12 paid holidays
• HSA with employer contribution, FSAs and commuter benefits
• Carrot Fertility, One Medical and a free Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k) and equity
• Daily catered lunches and snacks in office
• Annual company off-site and regular social events
• International exposure to the team in France
• Relocation assistance when applicable

Before you apply

• Attach a copy of your resume in English

About the company

Loft provides governments, companies and research institutions with an end-to-end way to deploy missions in orbit, reducing integration and launch timelines to months. It has flown more than 30 missions and is scaling a fleet toward 30 satellites by 2027.