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 Technical Product Manager II, you'll own the technical direction of one of BCT's product lines — ADCS, star trackers, reaction wheels, power, or another BCT product area — assigned based on business need and your background. These are the building blocks that have enabled hundreds of spacecraft and missions, and you'll help shape where your product goes next.
You'll navigate between customers, engineering, and the business — building the roadmap, framing tradeoffs, and helping the team converge when priorities compete and the path isn't obvious. You're early in your product career but you take ownership naturally, ask the right questions, and don't wait for perfect information to start moving things forward.
You'll lead through influence rather than authority — aligning stakeholders, clarifying priorities, and giving engineers the context they need to build the right solution. You care about products that are relevant, repeatable, and valuable over time, and about turning real customer needs and market signals into clear direction.
BCT's mission is to enable space missions that expand the frontiers of science and defense. This is a high-ownership, low-ceremony role with room to grow, and your job is to carry that mission forward for the products you help lead. If you're the kind of person who meets an ambiguous problem with curiosity and then goes to work clearing the constraints in the way, you'll do well here.
Title: Technical Product Manager II
Position Type: Full Time
Pay Range: $105,000 - $175,000
(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 roadmap for your assigned product line — keeping it current as customer needs, missions, and the market evolve.
- Be the technical voice of the customer. Turn mission requirements, feedback, and market trends into clear priorities engineering can act on.
- Support the external story. Help prepare conference material and technical papers, and contribute to customer conversations that show what's now feasible.
- Contribute to customer technical exchanges and reviews, communicating status, risk, and direction clearly.
- Run product trade studies that balance performance, cost, manufacturability, and mission goals.
- Support proposals and investment planning. Contribute technical content, ROMs, schedules, and risk inputs, and help scope IRAD/CRAD opportunities.
- Help keep the product line consistent. Support technical guidance on interfaces and design intent.
Required Qualifications
- A technical degree (Systems, Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical, or similar) and 3+ years of relevant engineering experience.
- Strong engineering fundamentals, with the ability to think through interactions between engineering domains — mechanical, electrical, software, thermal, and more.
- Exposure to a product or subsystem across its lifecycle, with a growing grasp of concept through qualification, production, and sustainment, including TRLs.
- The ability to work across Engineering, BD, Program Management, and Operations.
- Clear 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
- 3+ 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.)
- 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)
- Early product management, product development, or technical leadership exposure
- Configurable or variant-based products
- Trade studies and parametric analysis
- Familiarity with specs, SOWs, and subcontract technical inputs
- Flight-program experience under schedule pressure
- 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
