The Company
Astra's mission is to improve life on Earth from space by creating a healthier and more connected planet. Astra delivered its first commercial payload into Earth orbit in 2021, making it the fastest company in history to reach this milestone, just five years after being founded in 2016. By achieving monthly, weekly, then daily launches, we'll create the infrastructure services our customers need in space to build a healthier and more connected planet. If you're excited by a sense of possibility, the chance to innovate, and make a difference here on Earth, we think you should work here too.
The Opportunity
Astra designs and builds a complete orbital launch system, including spacecraft, rockets (engines, stage structures, fluid systems, avionics, etc), mission control, and software for orchestrating factory automation and end-to-end supply chain. Astra manufactures most of the components used to produce its rockets, and integrates, tests, and launches rockets and spacecraft at its facilities.
The Product team at Astra utilizes its understanding of the customer and the market to lead the company in formulating product vision and strategy, curating and delivering on a product roadmap, and leading cross-functional teams to build and launch commercially successful products and services.
How You'll Fulfill Your Mission
As a Product Manager, you will be responsible for leading the company in planning and delivering a designated product within our Launch Services or Space Services portfolio. Examples of products you could manage in this role include our First Stage Engine, Upper Stage System, Avionics, or Constellation Services. For your chosen product, you will work closely with the Engineering, Manufacturing, and Operations organizations at Astra to choreograph new product releases, balancing the complex trade-space between reliability, performance, material, labor, and operational costs.
You are passionate about the full spectrum of what we do. Gradually, you will develop a complete understanding of the complete launch system. Over time, you will likely take ownership of different products as we intentionally rotate and cross-train the team. Job title and leveling are flexible (e.g., Associate Product Manager, Product Manager, or Senior Product Manager), depending on candidate experience level.
Why We Value You

• You have extensive experience as a product management leader at a digital-native hardware and/or software technology company.
• Alternatively, you have comparable experience as a business-savvy and customer-focused leader planning new product development for a modern aerospace, automotive, or telecommunications product.
• Either way, you are a multi-talented polymath capable of providing creative thought leadership around products involving a huge variety of interdependent mechanical, electronic hardware, and software systems. You quickly learn new businesses and technologies. You are a rocket scientist, figuratively if not literally.
• You are an energetic leader with excellent written and oral communication skills, high EQ, and low ego. You are open, honest, and direct. You are self-motivated and industrious.

Why We Value You

• BS or MS/PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Design, or similarly relevant discipline.
• 5+ years of product management experience in companies that develop complex hardware and software products.
• Expertise in fields such as aeronautics/astronautics, electric vehicles, industrial automation, enterprise software, autonomous systems, factory automation, fluid mechanics.

ITAR Requirements: This position requires compliance with U.S. Government space technology trade restrictions, specifically the International Trafficking in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and additional regulations governing satellite, launch vehicle, missile, and other related technologies. All jobs restricted by these regulations will be contingent upon the applicant's status as a documented U.S. Person or their ability to receive a trade license from the cognizant government agency; in addition to any required company background checks and in compliance with applicable U.S. and California laws. Similarly, positions requiring the ability to work on government contracts or a security clearance are also contingent upon the applicants ability to receive the appropriate clearance and be allowed to work on U.S. government contracts.
You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply for this position. Here at Astra, we know that diverse perspectives foster the innovation we need to be successful, and we are committed to building a team that encompasses a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.
San Francisco Applicants: Astra will consider applicants with arrest and conviction records (criminal histories) in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.