About the role

Muon Space is hiring a Staff Product Manager to own one to two product areas end-to-end. Depending on the candidate background and company need, that could be the spacecraft platform (the bus and its mission-configurable options), the RF and optical bits-to-ground data path (hardware and software to get data from satellite to ground), on-board high-performance compute, or our instrument portfolio. Across any of these areas, you will own the roadmap and the productization decisions — architecture, capability tiering, SLAs, reuse-vs-customization, and (where applicable) pricing and packaging — that define how Muon scales commercially and operationally for years to come.

Reporting to the VP of Product, this is a deliberate Staff-level (L6) IC role. The work requires the seniority to make load-bearing commercial and architectural decisions, the technical fluency to engage with engineering and leadership as a peer, and the judgment to operate across multiple surfaces — hardware, software, operations, and go-to-market — without a team to delegate to.

This position is hybrid and requires working on-site in our Mountain View, CA office three days per week.

Responsibilities

Area ownership & strategy

Own the strategy and multi-quarter roadmap for one to two large Muon product areas
Define what is a reusable platform capability versus a mission- or customer-specific customization, and shape the architectural choices that make that distinction hold up across multiple missions and customers.
Sequence the roadmap so Muon wins near-term deals while compounding reusable value for future ones.
Define how success is measured for the area and hold the organization accountable to it.

Productization & commercial decisions

Own the productization decisions for your area. Drive the shift from bespoke, project-based commitments toward standardized, tiered offerings. This is a primary ROI vector for the role in every area.
Concretely, depending on area:
Spacecraft platform — define platform variants, standard interfaces, and the menu of options exposed to mission teams and customers; govern how the platform evolves across missions without fragmenting into one-offs.
Bits-to-ground — define latency, availability, and throughput tiers end-to-end from downlink to delivery; align ground segment, pipeline, and storage investments against those commitments; set downlink prioritization policy across the constellation.
On-board high-performance compute — define the on-board compute capability roadmap, the developer/SDK surface for mission payloads, and how on-board processing is exposed to internal mission teams and external customers (edge inference, on-board data reduction, tipping-and-cueing).
Instruments — shape the instrument portfolio strategy: which capabilities are standardized, which are bespoke, how performance is specified and verified, and how new instruments are productized across missions.

Customer & market insight

Run customer and user discovery (external customers, internal mission teams, partners), gather structured feedback, and translate insights into roadmap decisions and productization experiments.
Partner with Growth to analyze won/lost deals, identify product gaps and competitive advantages, and feed structured insights back into product and engineering investment.
Track competitive and technology trends relevant to your area and keep the organization honest about where Muon leads, matches, or lags.

Cross-functional partnership

Partner closely with engineering across software, hardware, and operations
Partner with the Growth org on deal structure, contract language, and the boundary between standardized packaging and bespoke commercial terms.
Support Go-To-Market teams with sales enablement, technical documentation, RFP responses, customer demonstrations, and product positioning materials.
Work with Marketing on product messaging, website content, case studies, whitepapers, and thought-leadership content that drives demand generation for Muon's portfolio.