Blue Canyon Technologies, RTX's small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, is solving some of the toughest challenges in space. Our components and bus platforms have completed missions ranging from very-low Earth orbits to lunar and interplanetary journeys at a fraction of the cost of traditional space systems. We support premier defense, commercial and civil organizations including the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA, MIT Lincoln Lab, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Colorado and more. Join our innovative and dynamic company as we build, test and operate the small spacecraft of the future.
As a Principal Technical Product Manager, you'll set the product strategy and technical direction for one of BCT's product areas — ADCS, star trackers, reaction wheels, power, or another part of the portfolio — assigned based on business need and your background. These products have enabled hundreds of spacecraft and missions, and you'll define where they go over the next several years: which markets to chase, which capabilities to build, and where the business should place its bets.
You're the senior technical and commercial voice for your area — to customers, to the industry, and inside BCT. You shape strategy where it's most ambiguous, frame the tradeoffs that move the business, and bring the rest of the organization along through credibility rather than authority. You care about building a portfolio that's relevant, repeatable, and valuable over time, and about reading the market early enough to get there first.
BCT's mission is to enable space missions that expand the frontiers of science and defense. This is a high-ownership, high-trust role, and your job is to make that mission real for the product area you lead — and to push how far it reaches. If you're the kind of person who meets an ambiguous market with curiosity and then goes to work clearing the constraints on where it can go, you'll do well here.
Title: Principal Technical Product Manager
Position Type: Full Time
Pay Range: $170,000 - $260,000
(Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.)
On-site position at our Boulder, CO location (work locations are subject to change based on business need).
Benefits:
- Employer sponsored health, dental, and vision benefits effective the first of the month following hire date
- Life insurance
- 401k (matching 4% with a minimum 5% contribution)
- Generous PTO (3 weeks of vacation + 3 floating holidays, 2 weeks of sick time, 7 paid holidays throughout the year) and parental leave
Job Responsibilities
- Own the product strategy and multi-year roadmap for your area, and steer the roadmaps of the components and suppliers it depends on so each generation is positioned better than the last.
- Be the senior voice of the customer and the market. Read where the industry is going, define the capabilities that will matter, and translate that into direction engineering and the business can act on.
- Lead the external story. Be a visible technical presence at industry conferences, author and shape the technical papers that establish BCT's position, and bring customers the "art of the possible" at the deepest level.
- Own the most important customer engagements. Lead high-stakes technical exchanges and decision meetings, communicating direction and risk credibly to the most demanding audiences.
- Shape where the business invests. Drive the technical content and direction of major proposals, and set the IRAD/CRAD agenda that ties engineering bets to long-term business goals.
- Set the standard for the discipline. Define how trade studies, requirements, and product decisions get made across the area, and drive consistency across BCT's product lines.
- Grow the team. Mentor Senior and Level II product managers and engineers, and set the bar for technical rigor and product judgment.
Required Qualifications
- A technical degree (Systems, Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical, or similar) and 13+ years of relevant engineering experience.
- Strong engineering fundamentals, with the ability to think through interactions between engineering domains — mechanical, electrical, software, thermal, and more.
- A track record of owning a product or product area across many programs and multiple generations, with clear business impact.
- Deep command of the spacecraft product lifecycle — concept through qualification, production, and sustainment, including TRLs — and the judgment to set direction under real uncertainty.
- Proven ability to set product strategy and shape investment, working across Engineering, BD, Program Management, and Operations to align technical execution with where the business is going.
- A recognized ability to represent a product line credibly to customers and the broader industry.
- Strong written and verbal communication.
- Other responsibilities as assigned
- May include personnel management responsibilities
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Systems, Aerospace, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline
- 12+ years of relevant engineering experience
- GNC engineering experience — extra points for familiarity with BCT systems
- Spacecraft systems engineering experience with direct experience in a subsystem BCT supports (ADCS, Power, C&DH, etc.)
- Deep hands-on experience with a component solution BCT supplies or competes against (star trackers, reaction wheels, CMGs, torque rods, sun sensors, SADAs, batteries, solar arrays)
- A track record setting product strategy or taking a product line into a market and growing it
- Experience mentoring product managers or technical leads
- Configurable or variant-based product lines across diverse customer needs
- A visible industry presence — conference talks, technical papers, or standards work
- Familiarity with specs, SOWs, and subcontract technical inputs
- Hands-on history with demanding flight programs
- MATLAB or Python
- JIRA or similar planning/tracking tools
- A "figure it out and get it done" instinct
- Related technical experience may be considered in lieu of education
Working Conditions:
This job operates in a professional office environment, but in a manufacturing company. This role uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, scanners, filing cabinets and fax machines. BCT anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require BCT to shorten or extend the application window.
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time. The employee is occasionally required to stand, bend, reach, and walk. The position requires some light physical effort. This would require the ability to lift or move objects up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift or move objects up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities are required by this job which includes close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus.
Blue Canyon Technologies is a drug-free workplace and an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected factor. Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information. Blue Canyon Technologies is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request a reasonable accommodation, contact Melissa Po at
[email protected].
We recommend applying directly via the Blue Canyon Technologies website, careers page:
https://www.bluecanyontech.com/careers
