Echodyne offers the world’s first compact solid-state true beam-steering radar for a wide range of industries and applications. Our high-performance radars work in all weather and are designed for autonomous vehicles, uncrewed aircraft & drones, and security of borders, critical infrastructure, and smart cities. The company combines the patented technology of metamaterials with powerful software to create a radar sensor with unprecedented performance at commercial price points. Echodyne offers its radars to companies working in Automotive, Transportation, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Border Security, Smart Cities, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Airspace Management including Urban Air Mobility (UTM).
Echodyne is seeking a Product Manager to support the development and delivery of EchoWare, our radar software product. This role turns established product priorities into clear, actionable work for Engineering and helps ensure delivered functionality meets product requirements.
RESPONSIBILITIES- Break product requirements and epics into well-scoped user stories with clear workflows, edge cases and testable acceptable criteria.
- Maintain and prioritize the EchoWare backlog in Jira, keeping upcoming work ready for development and aligned with established product and release priorities.
- Lead backlog refinement with Engineering and sequence work around priorities and technical dependencies.
- Serve as the day-to-day Product contact during development, resolving requirements questions and documenting decisions and changes.
- Make tactical product decisions within established direction; escalate changes affecting scope, priorities, product intent, or customer commitments.
- Partner with Engineering, UX, and Test to resolve tradeoffs, agree on what done means, and validate delivered functionality against requirements.
- Capture defects, limitations, and follow-up work and bring customer and field feedback back to the Product team.
- Build working knowledge of EchoWare, customer workflows, integrations, and operational use cases to inform product decisions.
- 2+ years of experience in product management, product ownership, or a related software product role.
- Experience working with software engineering teams through development and release.
- Ability to translate product requirements into clear user stories and testable acceptance criteria.
- Experience maintaining and refining product backlogs in Jira or a similar tool.
- Working knowledge of Agile development practices and the ability to understand technical tradeoffs and dependencies.
- Strong written and verbal communication with excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to operate effectively in a technical, fast-moving environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
- Familiarity with radar, sensor software, defense, security, or airspace management applications.
Echodyne’s technology is export controlled by the U.S. Government and we must evaluate an applicant’s eligibility to handle export-controlled information or obtain required Government authorizations. Therefore, we will ask you as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or green card holder, or have asylum/refugee status in the U.S.
WHAT WE OFFERThis is an exempt role.If your skills generally align but not perfectly, please apply anyway. There may be another role that’s a great fit for you!
We offer competitive compensation and benefits to our full-time, US-based employees, including:
- RSU (Restricted Stock Units)
- Generous Benefits:
- Fully-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for you
- Choice of PPO or HDHP/HSA
- Virtual Care – 98Point6
- Employee Assistance Program
- Mental Health coverage through Springhealth & Talkspace (Premera)
- Travel Assistance Insurance
- Company Paid Life Insurance
- Company Paid Short & Long Term Disability
- Flexible PTO (exempt) / 15 days per year (non-exempt)
- 401(k) match
- Pet Insurance
- Prepaid Legal Program
- Commuter Benefits
- Paid Company Holidays
All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected by law.
Skills Required
- 2+ years of experience in product management, product ownership, or a related software product role
- Experience working with software engineering teams through development and release
- Ability to translate product requirements into clear user stories and testable acceptance criteria
- Experience maintaining and refining product backlogs in Jira or a similar tool
- Working knowledge of Agile development practices and technical tradeoffs and dependencies
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with excellent attention to detail
- Ability to operate effectively in a technical, fast-moving environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
- Familiarity with radar, sensor software, defense, security, or airspace management applications
Echodyne Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Echodyne and has not been reviewed or approved by Echodyne.
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Affordable Benefits — Healthcare premiums for employees are fully paid, and medical, dental, and vision options are consistently cited as strong parts of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible or unlimited PTO for salaried staff and structured accruals plus paid holidays for hourly employees indicate broad time-off support.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with company match is noted, alongside company-paid life and disability insurance that strengthens financial security.
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What We Do
Echodyne designs and builds advanced radar solutions that unlock new capabilities for intelligent systems and autonomous machines and shatter price-performance barriers for sensor arrays. Our combination of patented metamaterials electronically scanned array (MESA®) technology with powerful software ultimately means significantly greater situational awareness that increases safety and saves lives. Our first radar is the size of a paperback book, weighs less than bowling pin, draws less power than a light bulb, yet outperforms every comparable radar on the market. We are just getting started. Echodyne delivers commercial radar solutions for end users and integrators in Government and Defense, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Autonomous Vehicle markets globally. The company is based in Kirkland, Washington and backed by Bill Gates, NEA, Madrona Venture Group, Baillie Gifford, Vulcan Capital, Vanedge Capital, and Irongrey among others. Discover more at echodyne.com.
