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About the job

About us

At Viasat, the work you do helps people stay connected in ways that matter, from everyday moments to critical missions across air, land, sea, and space.

We’re a place for people who are curious, bold, and motivated by meaningful work. Here, you'll have the opportunity to make an impact, explore new possibilities, and grow your career in ways that align with your interests and goals. When you're ready to take on something new, you'll find leaders who support your development and help you turn your ambition into action.

What you'll do

Viasat’s Government business is poised for significant growth in the coming years, bringing mission-critical connectivity solutions to our warfighters across the battlespace. Our solutions serve user groups and market segments across all services as well as within the intelligence and international government communities. As a Technical Product Manager (TPdM), you will be responsible for aggregating user needs and customer requests across domains, translating them into a consolidated set of product requirements and roadmap to guide the engineering teams in product development.

The day-to-day

The TPdM role involves interfacing with stakeholders to include business product and program managers, engineering leads, and customers to understand the product vision and business roadmap/s and market requirements. The TPdM must also work with engineering teams to execute the vision by establishing the technical product requirements and timeline. This requires an affinity for thinking about users, use cases, and value propositions as well as a technical understanding of the underlying infrastructure (primarily cloud architectures and networking) required to support the product. An innate ability to adapt quickly to changing needs and market environments is also essential.

What you'll need

8+ years of experience in product development of networking products and applications

Ability to understand and develop technical product requirements including those related to performance, security, and customer experience

Understand the needs of the end users and work with engineering teams to ensure that the implementations meet the spirit of the requirement

Develop and pursue a perspective on what makes the most sense for the technical implementation

Own the hardware and software product and platform success from early definition through the entire product lifecycle, including through maturity and ultimately End-of-Life.

Bring together the engineering product team of all essential functions (e.g. business, engineering, operations) and ensure a shared product vision and group work for product success.

Prepare presentation materials to educate others on the technical approach and timelines

Provide product status visibility to stakeholders through regular product reviews

Develop and maintain product roadmaps, working across engineering teams and the business to prioritize and scope new features, tech debt, efficiency improvements, technology alignment with adjacent products, sustainment efforts, etc

Must be able to obtain a U.S. Top Secret Clearance.

What will help you on the job

Understanding of agile software development processes

Understanding of DoW CONOPs, users, and operating environments

Familiarity with user experience research and design best practices and willingness to perform user experience research

Understanding and representing the 'voice of the customer' on the engineering team

Facilitate discussions with engineering and business teams on design tradeoffs

Work with business counterparts to determine and deconflict backlog priorities

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Salary range

$120,500.00 - $190,000.00 / annually. For specific work locations within San Jose, the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, the base pay range for this role is $149,500.00- $224,500.00/ annually

At Viasat, we consider many factors when it comes to compensation, including the scope of the position as well as your background and experience. Base pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Additional cash or stock incentives may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Learn more about Viasat’s comprehensive benefit offerings that are focused on your holistic health and wellness at https://careers.viasat.com/benefits. EEO Statement

Viasat is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, genetics, age, or veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic. If you would like to request an accommodation on the basis of disability for completing this on-line application, please click here .