Jobs at BlackSky

The Senior Product Manager for Analytics will lead product strategy, manage development roadmaps, define KPIs, support sales, and generate market insights.

Develop and execute corporate marketing and brand awareness programs for BlackSky. Create messaging, website and collateral, manage agency/vendor relationships, support product launches and investor materials, collaborate with GTM and engineering to simplify technical concepts, and track industry trends. Support internal communications and employer branding; act as an individual contributor focused on B2B/B2G audiences.

Manage customer experience from onboarding to maintenance, serving as the front-line support for customer inquiries and advocating for customer needs. Collaborate with internal teams and train enterprise customers.

The role involves executing international sales strategy for defense markets, managing complex sales cycles, leading a sales team, and establishing global customer relationships.

The VP of Customer Operations drives customer experience and retention initiatives, oversees operations strategy, builds teams, and collaborates with various departments to enhance customer engagement and account growth.

Leads the Product Insights engineering team responsible for partner integrations, analytic product hosting, scalable platform capabilities, production pipelines, reliability, and monitoring. Sets technical strategy, oversees architecture and roadmap development, removes cross-team blockers, participates in code reviews and development, and manages hiring, mentoring, capacity planning, and team performance. Collaborates with product, platform, AI, imagery, and partner engineering teams to accelerate delivery of customer-facing insight products.

Automate and support assembly, integration, and test of satellite production systems. Develop and maintain Python/Bash automation and data-collection scripts, troubleshoot hardware/software interfaces, commission test equipment, execute software updates, maintain documentation, and ensure aerospace quality and cleanroom compliance to improve production throughput.

Design, build, and operate hybrid cloud and air-gapped platform infrastructure. Run and maintain production Kubernetes (EKS/RKE2/OpenShift), implement GitOps with Argo CD, author Helm charts and Terraform, package deployments for disconnected environments with Zarf, harden CI/CD pipelines, and establish monitoring, secrets, and operational standards.

Lead regional sales efforts, develop growth strategies, manage teams, and build relationships with customers and stakeholders in the APAC region.

The Principal Engineer leads the development of automated test processes for spacecraft, ensuring robust, repeatable tests by managing cross-functional teams and leveraging engineering expertise.

Lead design and development of satellite imaging payload and ADCS embedded software. Implement and maintain clean C/C++ and Python code on Embedded Linux, support requirements, tests, and releases, drive work in Jira, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers.

Design, implement, and maintain mission management software for an autonomous satellite constellation. Develop production systems in Python and Go, participate in design/code reviews, test and debug, identify requirements issues, coordinate with mission, ground, and platform engineers, support production stability and on-call rotations, and assist with launch and early operations.

As a Senior RF Engineer, you will design, test, and support satellite communication systems, interfacing with vendors and ensuring compatibility with ground systems.

The Staff Application Management Specialist manages BlackSky's enterprise applications lifecycle, vendor management, budgeting, and ensures system security and integration with IT and Security teams.

Lead and grow a small legal and contracts team providing counsel on commercial, U.S. government and international contracts, export and regulatory compliance, corporate governance, SOX and risk management. Negotiate and draft complex agreements, support strategic corporate activities, manage outside counsel and litigation strategy, and advise senior leadership on operational, product, and regulatory matters in the space/defense context.

Lead architecture, design, test, and integration of electro-optical (EO) payloads. Develop test strategies, build and maintain optical test facilities and GSE, support satellite integration and on-orbit commissioning, characterize imaging performance, and collaborate across engineering, production, and operations throughout the payload lifecycle.