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Our philosophy has been to productize them: we develop our own proprietary technology blocks, hardware and software, so that a customer payload can be integrated faster and more reliably than any bespoke program allows. That approach has delivered - it is why our customers reach orbit in months rather than years, and it is what makes working here different from working in the rest of the industry.\nWe are now taking the next step: launching and operating our own constellations, and building a new set of services on top of them. That includes a full product suite enabling third-party AI applications to run directly onboard our satellites, and a growing ecosystem of partners whose needs we have to understand and design for. Loft is expanding at a very high pace, and the range of what we build is expanding just as fast.\nThis is why Product Management matters so much here. Someone has to hold the whole picture - what is technically possible, what customers actually need, what we should build first - and turn it into something engineering and leadership can act on. As a Product Manager, you will own a significant perimeter and the autonomy that goes with it. We are growing the team precisely so that each of us can go deeper on our topics, anticipate rather than react, and have more impact across the company.\nYou will need to be comfortable talking to anyone here. In the same week you might sit with a system engineer to understand a design constraint, join a BDcall with an institutional customer, and present a recommendation to the executive team. Ideas at Loft get discussed openly and on their merits, wherever they come from, so being able to ask a naive question without ego - and to disagree with someone senior without making it personal - matters more than seniority.\nAbout this role:\nUnderstand what is possible, and turn it into requirements\nSpend the bulk of your time with engineering: understanding architectures, constraints, and dependencies well enough to judge what is realistically doable in a given timeframe.\nTranslate strategic direction into clear requirements and use cases that engineering can act on directly, and follow them down to the Jira tickets.\nSurface and shape the good ideas that come from engineering - many of the best ones do - and connect them to a product rationale.\nDefine success criteria for each capability, and verify they are actually met through implementation and delivery.\nMaintain an accurate, shared view of Loft's product capabilities, what is in development, and where the gaps are.\nBring the outside in\nRun customer discovery interviews alongside business development, and debrief missions to see how Loft's capabilities are actually used in operations.\nEngage directly with the partners building on our platform, including the onboard AI application ecosystem, to understand their needs and constraints.\nTrack market trends and competitive moves closely enough to know where our offering stands.\nDecide and prioritize\nOwn the roadmap for your perimeter, reconciling customer needs, engineering reality, and Loft's strategy into a single coherent plan.\nBuild the analysis behind every recommendation - sizing, segmentation, business cases, operational data - so decisions are grounded in evidence rather than intuition alone.\nNegotiate scope and delivery commitments with engineering leadership, and re-plan when capacity or mission timelines shift.\nChallenge, constructively and with data, business development, engineering leadership, and your own assumptions.\nCommunicate\nOwn internal communication on your perimeter: keep engineering, program leadership, and executives working from the same technical reality.\nDevelop the technical narratives and proof points that marketing and BDthen turn into their own customer-facing material.\nPrepare recommendations and presentations for top-executive-level audiences.\nMust Haves:\n7+ years of professional experience, including hands-on product management.\nDomain experience in at least one of: earth observation, embedded systems, aerospace systems, security & defense.\nComfort at both ends of the spectrum - understand the market, and the technology\nStructured and data-driven: you bring your experience and your intuitions, but when you put a recommendation on the table you can show the analysis it stands on.\nReal product obsession: you think about the bigger picture and product-market fit before you think about features.\nRelentless curiosity. In a single month you might move from a satellite bus constraint, to onboard AI inference, to a defense accreditation requirement - and you need to find that stimulating rather than exhausting.\nHigh autonomy and a bias for action: handed a broad perimeter, you organize it yourself and come back with a plan.\nAt ease being challenged, and challenging others, in a fast-moving and demanding environment.\nWorking knowledge of both hardware and software development lifecycles.\nProficient using and configuring Atlassian tools (Jira and Confluence).\nFluency in English, written and spoken.\nWillingness to travel to other Loft offices and to customers.\nNice to Haves:\nFluency in French.\nExperience with AI/ML products, edge computing, or developer and partner platforms and ecosystems.\nExperience with satellite operations, constellation services, or ground segment products.\nExposure to institutional and defense customers and their procurement cycles.\nExperience in a fast-growing, entrepreneurial NewSpace company or venture-backed deep-tech startup.\nProfessional experience working with international teams across time zones.\nSome of Our Awesome Benefits:\n100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance option for employees and dependents\nFlexible Spending (FSA) and Health Savings (HSA) Accounts offered with an employer contribution to the HSA\n100% employer paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term, and Long-Term Disability insurance\nFlexible Time Off policy for vacation and sick leave, and 12 paid holidays\n401(k) plan and equity options\nDaily catered lunches and snacks\nInternational exposure to our team in France\nFully paid parental leave; 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