Job description
Director, Product Management – Defense and Intelligence
EarthDaily | U.S. Remote | Washington Metropolitan Area preferred | Full-Time
Reports to: VP Product
About EarthDaily
EarthDaily is a vertically integrated Earth Observation company delivering daily, scientifically calibrated, AI-
ready imagery of the planet through the EarthDaily Constellation. Capturing 22 spectral bands across nearly
all of Earth's landmass and maritime regions at the same time every day, EarthDaily powers broad-area
change detection, advanced analytics, and mission applications for governments and industries worldwide.
About the Role
The Director, Product Management – Defense and Intelligence, is the senior product leader responsible for
defining and driving EarthDaily's product strategy for defense and intelligence markets. The Director will
identify high-value mission problems and translate them into differentiated, scalable products that combine
EarthDaily's Earth observation data, analytics, AI/ML, contextual data, and workflow capabilities. This role is
highly outward-facing and will spend substantial time with government users, commercial customers,
acquisition stakeholders, Sales & Business Development, and industry partners to understand the market and
translate those insights into clear product priorities and requirements.
The role is part of EarthDaily's Analytics Product organization and works in close partnership with EarthDaily
Federal, Analytics line of business, and Engineering to develop defense and intelligence products for U.S.
Government and international defense agencies and customers. The Director owns the product problem,
customer outcome, product strategy, roadmap, requirements, prioritization, packaging, and commercial
product case. EarthDaily Federal and EarthDaily Analytics market teams along with Sales lead customer
relationships, capture, opportunity strategy, contracting, and revenue execution, while Engineering owns
technical design, delivery planning, sprint management, and implementation. The Director is expected to
move quickly, make decisions with incomplete information, develop evidence-driven roadmaps that drive
revenue, stay close to customers and technical teams, and maintain a high level of responsiveness and
accountability.
Minimum Requirements
Location preferred: Washington Metropolitan Area (WMA).
• Senior or Director-level product management experience with demonstrated ownership of product
strategy, discovery, prioritization, and commercialization.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must hold a minimum active Secret clearance; active TS/SCI strongly preferred.
• Must have strong knowledge of U.S. Government mission needs, budgets, spending cycles, acquisition
pathways, and commercial GEOINT/EO adoption, with experience in one or more of imagery, geospatial
analytics, AI/ML, or mission workflow solutions.
• Must be able to engage credibly with mission users, program offices, acquisition stakeholders, senior
government leaders, and technical teams and translate among those audiences.
What You'll Own
Defense product strategy: Set and continuously refine the product strategy, roadmap, and investment
priorities for EarthDaily's defense and intelligence portfolio, including Earth observation data, analytics,
AI/ML, contextual data, workflow solutions, and mission applications.
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Market and customer discovery: Maintain a continuous external discovery process with U.S. Government
users, buyers, mission owners, partners, and influencers to understand unmet needs, mission priorities,
buying behavior, competitive alternatives, and emerging demand.
• Mission-to-product translation: Translate customer problems and operational workflows into clear
product requirements, desired outcomes, priorities, and success measures that technical teams can act
on.
Productization and reuse: Identify common requirements across customers, programs, and mission areas
and translate them into scalable products, reusable capabilities, and configurable workflows. Distinguish
between strategic product investments, reusable customer-driven capabilities, and one-off custom
development.
• Prioritization and tradeoffs: Make clear recommendations on what EarthDaily should build, improve,
package, partner for, or explicitly not pursue based on customer value, market size, differentiation,
revenue potential, strategic fit, and technical feasibility.
• Commercialization and revenue enablement: Convert recurring customer and mission needs into
differentiated, scalable offerings that can be repeatedly sold and delivered. Work with EarthDaily Federal,
Growth, and Business Development to understand funded demand, inform opportunity shaping and
capture, and create product proof points that support commercialization and revenue growth.
• Pricing and packaging: Develop and evolve pricing, packaging, licensing, and value propositions for defense
and intelligence offerings based on customer willingness to pay, budget structures, acquisition pathways,
competitive dynamics, and product economics.
• Product positioning and external materials: Drive the product substance behind customer-facing
materials, product briefs, demos, presentations, proposal content, use cases, and sales enablement.
Ensure external claims accurately reflect current and planned capability.
• Customer validation: Establish disciplined feedback and validation loops with government end users and
buyers. Validate the problem, value proposition, workflow fit, usability, and willingness to pay before and
after major product investments.
• Cross-functional product leadership: Establish a working operating rhythm with Engineering in which
Product provides customer context, clear priorities, requirements, and desired outcomes while technical
teams own architecture, delivery planning, sprint execution, and implementation. Work closely with
Market and Sales leadership so customer and capture needs inform product decisions without turning
individual opportunities into one-off product direction.
• Competitive and market intelligence: Track relevant commercial EO, GEOINT, analytics, AI/ML, workflow,
and data-fusion competitors and substitutes. Translate market movement into implications for
EarthDaily's differentiation and product choices.
• Executive product leadership: Communicate product strategy, customer evidence, investment choices,
risks, and performance to senior leadership. Surface decisions early and drive alignment across Product,
Engineering, Analytics, Growth, Programs, Partnerships, and EarthDaily Federal leadership.
• Product performance: Define and track outcome-oriented product metrics, including customer validation,
adoption, usage, time-to-value, product reuse across customers and programs, pipeline influence,
revenue contribution, and other measures appropriate to the product lifecycle.
Leadership Expectations
Operate with urgency. Move fast without creating unnecessary process or waiting for perfect information.
• Be highly responsive to customers and internal teams. Product Management is an accountable,
collaborative leadership function, not a process gatekeeper.
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Be proactive. Identify customer, market, product, and execution issues before they become leadership
escalations.
Own the outcome. Do not stop at documenting requirements; stay engaged through validation,
commercialization, and customer adoption.
• Lead through influence. Build alignment across teams with different priorities while maintaining clear
product accountability and decision-making.
• Use evidence, not volume. Bring customer data, market signals, economics, and mission impact into
prioritization discussions.
What You Bring
10+ years of product management, product strategy, or closely related product leadership experience,
with meaningful experience at the Senior Product Manager, Group Product Manager, Principal, or
Director level.
• Demonstrated experience taking data-intensive, analytics, geospatial, ISR, AI/ML, or workflow products
from discovery through commercialization and adoption.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. Government defense and intelligence mission environments, with the ability to
understand user and operator workflows as well as government buying behavior.
• Experience working directly with customers and users to conduct product discovery, validate problems,
test concepts, and translate findings into product decisions.
• Strong commercial judgment, including experience with pricing, packaging, market segmentation, product
positioning, and revenue-oriented product decisions.
• Ability to convert complex technical and mission concepts into concise, prioritized product requirements
and executive-level recommendations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to create customer-facing product content
and represent the product in external meetings.
• Comfort operating in a matrixed organization where Product owns the market solution, product strategy,
product priorities, requirements, and outcomes; Market leads market selection, capture and revenue
execution; and Engineering owns technical design and delivery execution.
Nice to Have
Direct experience with GEOINT, remote sensing, commercial Electro-Optical imagery, spectral data, SAR,
or multi-source geospatial analytics.
• Prior work with USG IC agencies, COCOMs, Military Services, NRO, NGA, or other civil, defense/intelligence
mission organizations.
• Prior work leading non-U.S. defense products (e.g., Canada, Europe, Australia).
• Understanding of federal acquisition, appropriations, PPBE/budget cycles, OTAs, CSOs, IDIQs, data buys,
software licensing, and other common pathways for commercial technology adoption.
• Experience with product-led capture, market shaping, or building customer advocacy for emerging
commercial capabilities.
• Prior military, IC, or federal service with firsthand exposure to analyst, operator, or mission workflows.
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Who can apply
Eligible countries: United States. Accepted UTC offsets: UTC-10, UTC-9, UTC-8, UTC-7, UTC-6, UTC-5, UTC+14. Review the full description for employer-specific work authorization, residency and schedule requirements.