About the role

Role overview

Founding Product Manager for a mission-critical environmental intelligence platform at EVONA. You will shape product strategy and drive market adoption from the ground up, bridging highly technical capabilities with customer needs across government and commercial markets.

Responsibilities

Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the platform
Act as the primary link between customers, operators, and engineering teams
Gather and prioritize customer requirements to drive product development
Translate complex technical capabilities into practical customer solutions
Support customer demos, workshops, and technical engagements
Define product requirements, acceptance criteria, and release priorities
Work closely with engineering to guide feature development and product evolution
Identify new use cases, markets, and growth opportunities
Support commercialization (product positioning and go-to-market)
Drive successful deployment and adoption in customer environments

Requirements

Proven experience managing complex technical products in aerospace, defense, space, communications, or related industries
Ability to work effectively with engineers, scientists, and technical stakeholders
Experience turning customer needs into product requirements and roadmap priorities
Understanding of data-driven systems, analytics platforms, sensor networks, and/or mission-critical technologies
Domain familiarity with space/communications areas such as Space Domain Awareness, RF, radar, SATCOM, GNSS, or communications technologies
Experience with defense/government/national security customers
Background in 0-to-1 product development and startup/venture-backed or dual-use environments

Nice-to-haves

Experience specifically tied to sensor fusion, space operations, and environmental intelligence use cases

About EVONA

EVONA is a space technology startup building an environmental intelligence platform. The role sits at the intersection of AI/ML, sensor fusion, space operations, and national security, with a focus on serving both government and commercial customers.