One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we’re on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world! For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We’re looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.

Job Responsibilities

• Communicate quantitative and qualitative understandings of trade spaces, challenges, and opportunities in the mobile terminals space to customers
• Develop and run multiple hardware product and technology development roadmaps and communicate these roadmaps both internally and externally
• Build a strong relationship with internal and external aircraft OEM collaborators, technology partners, and customers to understand critical needs and relevant solution opportunities in each segment
• Assessing and tracking requirements related to access networks, customer contracts, line fit offerings, and certifications and the prioritization of development to fulfill these requirements based on value analysis
• Curate Product Ideas and Define Solution Concepts with the product team
• Define and supervise the lifecycle management process for the hardware products
• Analyze market data, product specific sales, margin, demographics and competitive product releases and pricing strategies for assigned product lines
• Determine and monitor metrics for the product and drive actions through the System Architect and DevOps teams to achieve and maintain product success through defined product success criteria
• Drive and manage strategic partners and suppliers to maintain strong product metrics throughout the product lifecycle.

Requirements

• 5+ years of demonstrated ability in a product development or product management role
• Ability to build consensus via sound decision making, business insight, and self-awareness
• Bias for action while balancing the need for data-driven decisions
• Demonstrated success in a fast-paced work environment
• Understanding of product lifecycle management, gathering product metrics, adapting to market dynamics, and creating new strategies
• Ability to create a product strategy that supports key business goals and objectives and to translate it into product requirements for product teams
• Experience working with engineering teams, project managers, and program managers on formulating implementable and measurable execution plans
• Experience as a product influencer with a proven track record to maintain deep technical and business knowledge of various market segments.
• Ability to partner with marketing and customer teams to understand customer use cases and translate into engineering requirements, assign priorities and resolve value opportunity.
• Bachelor’s Degree in technical area.
• Up to 25% travel both domestic and international.

Preferences

• Experience with the aviation industry
• Capable of serving as a customer-facing technical resource
• Master’s Degree in Business, Science, or Engineering
• Product Management Certificate