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).
This role is responsible for ensuring data is collected, managed, and used in a way that enables operational effectiveness while meeting necessary security, privacy and regulatory requirements. You will work at the intersection of product, engineering, research, legal, and customers – balancing the need for high-quality data usage with the responsibility to safeguard sensitive information. Building customer trust through disciplined data governance and transparent data handling practices is core to this role.
RESPONSIBILITIES- Define and own the roadmap and success metrics for our data platform that supports radar performance, analytics, and operational insights.
- Translate business and customer needs into clear product requirements, user stories, and prioritization decisions.
- Partner closely with engineering and data teams to deliver secure, reliable and scalable data capabilities.
- Define policies for data security, access, retention, usage, and deletion in alignment with legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements.
- Partner with customers to define what data is required, how it will be transmitted, stored, and used, and why it is necessary.
- Clearly communicate our data handling practices to give customers confidence that sensitive and regulated data is protected.
- Serve as a trusted point of contact for data-related questions, concerns, and escalations.
- Evangelize best practices for data governance, security, and customer trust across the organization
- 5+ years of product management experience, with a focus on data platform products.
- Demonstrated experience working with sensitive, regulated, or customer-controlled data.
- Strong understanding of data governance, data security, and privacy principles.
- Experience collaborating with government customers or operating in regulated industries.
- Ability to communicate complex data and security concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and making thoughtful tradeoffs.
- Collaborative, detail-oriented, and customer-centric mindset.
(Looking for one or more as a complement to the core skills)
- Experience with government or defense-related compliance frameworks (e.g., ITAR, EAR, SOC 2, FedRAMP, NIST).
- Familiarity with classified, controlled unclassified information (CUI), or export-controlled data.
- Background in radar systems, sensors, aerospace, defense, or other mission-critical technologies.
- Technical background in data engineering, analytics, or distributed systems.
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.
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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.
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