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Senior Product Manager - Maritime Weather

Spire

Spire

Product
Glasgow, UK
Posted on Saturday, October 29, 2022

Spire Global is a space-to-cloud analytics company that owns and operates the largest multi-purpose constellation of satellites. Its proprietary data and algorithms provide the most advanced maritime, aviation, and weather tracking in the world. In addition to its constellation, Spire’s data infrastructure includes a global ground station network and 24/7 operations that provide real-time global coverage of every point on Earth.

POSITION SUMMARY:

We are looking for an experienced, entrepreneurial, and hands-on Product Manager to join our Spire Weather product management team. In this position, you will become the specialist in your market, and work closely with the other product managers and the weather engineering team to define, scope, and execute on our product innovations.

You will have experience with building data products and will be responsible for understanding customer and business data needs, while driving our product roadmap for the maritime industry to ensure the success of our data and analytics solutions. You will collaborate with the sales, marketing, and customer success teams to deliver customer-driven products that consistently exceed expectations.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF YOUR ROLE:

  • Develop and maintain a clear vision and roadmap for the product you own, and collaborate with the product management team on defining the overall strategy for our commercial weather products
  • Become an internal specialist in weather data for the maritime industry, develop and maintain a strong understanding of our customer base and our core business value to ensure we continuously deliver more value to our customers
  • Translate product strategy into detailed product requirements, validated by prototypes, customer feedback and research.
  • Work with our engineering team(s) to rapidly iterate on new product concepts to mature requirements prior to commercialization
  • Be a visionary on data services and data tools to help customers to ingest and manage data services
  • Collaborate with Marketing and Sales teams to execute against go-to-market campaigns and deliver customer engagement plans

BASIC REQUIREMENTS:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business, meteorology, or engineering oriented education or equivalent work experience
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in the Maritime Industry
  • 5+ years experience in product management, technical product management, or related roles.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Meteorology background or experience working with weather products will be a major plus
  • Proven experience in driving product development under a strong customer focused mindset
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to distill customer insights into clear requirements and strategy plans
  • Strong analytical skills, with proven experience of making data-driven decisions that lead to positive results
  • Hands-on experience with supply-chain use cases will be a plus
  • Business and technical understanding, able to communicate technical issues in terms of business risk and vice versa.
  • Strong writing skills and the ability to communicate and present arguments and recommendations via the written word
  • Strong knowledge of data and/or API product development
  • Experience in startups and/or data companies
  • MBA Preferred

Spire is Global and our success draws upon the diverse viewpoints, skills and experiences of our employees. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status.

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