Technical Product Manager

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) delivers high-impact, technical solutions to complex national security issues. With over 50 years of business expertise and consistent growth, we are known for continuous innovation for our government customers, in both the US and abroad. Our exceptionally talented team is highly collaborative in spirit and practice, producing Results that Matter. Come work with the best! We offer opportunity, unique challenges, and clear-sighted commitment to the mission. SPA: Objective. Responsive. Trusted.

The Space and Intelligence Division provides professional services to the US Space Force, Combatant Commands, Intelligence Community, and NASA. Our work includes enterprise architectural assessments, systems engineering and integration, test, planning and execution, cost estimating and analysis, acquisition support, and cybersecurity. We are trusted partners developing approaches and concepts to meet emerging high priority needs, assessing cutting-edge technologies, and supporting capabilities for our National Defense. Come join the fastest growing Division at Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc.!

The Space Systems Group (SSG), part of SPA's Space and Intelligence Division, provides timely and objective assessments and recommendations integrating technical, operational, programmatic, policy and business analysis. We focus on our key clients in the Space community including the US Space Force's Space Systems Command (USSF/SSC), one of the three designated Field Commands under USSF. We work tirelessly to provide integrated solutions based on information and communications throughout the chain of command. We provide clear and consistent analysis and recommendations which are aligned to strategic and leadership goals while balancing the ability to execute on time and on budget within the technical communities. Come join an organization responsible for being a key enabler of Spacepower!

SPA has an immediate need for a Technical Product Manager.

SPA is seeking a Technical Product Manager to drive product strategy, roadmap development, and mission focused technical engagement for our platform as a service solution supporting software delivery for Space Systems Command. This role serves as one of four primary liaisons between various mission stakeholders and platform engineering, ensuring platform capabilities align with customer priorities while advancing the long-term platform vision. As a Technical Product Manager, you will work directly with mission teams to understand operational challenges, identify opportunities for platform innovation, and translate customer needs into prioritized product capabilities. Working closely with engineering teams, you will recommend product direction, advise on the platform roadmap, prioritize competing requirements within your assigned mission area, and ensure platform initiatives deliver measurable mission value. The ideal candidate combines strong product management experience with a solid technical foundation in cloud-native platforms, software engineering, and DevSecOps. You are comfortable engaging with senior mission stakeholders and engineering teams alike, asking insightful technical questions, evaluating solution tradeoffs, and making informed product decisions that balance mission needs, technical feasibility, security, and long-term platform sustainability.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Serve as the primary product owner for assigned mission area platform user, representing customer priorities while maintaining alignment with the long-term platform strategy.
• Lead mission-focused technical engagement with stakeholders to understand operational challenges, gather product requirements, and identify opportunities for new platform capabilities.
• Develop, maintain, and communicate a prioritized product roadmap that balances mission value, engineering effort, technical debt, security, and operational sustainability.
• Define product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and success metrics that enable engineering teams to deliver high-quality platform capabilities.
• Partner with platform engineers, software engineers, cybersecurity specialists, and mission stakeholders to evaluate solution alternatives, technical tradeoffs, and implementation approaches.
• Facilitate product planning, backlog refinement, release planning, and feature prioritization to ensure engineering efforts align with mission objectives.
• Analyze customer feedback, operational metrics, and platform usage data to continuously improve the developer experience and platform capabilities.
• Identify recurring customer needs and translate common requirements into scalable platform services that benefit multiple mission teams.
• Communicate product vision, roadmap priorities, feature status, and release plans to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ensure delivered capabilities satisfy customer expectations, support platform engineering standards, and contribute to long-term platform evolution.
• Build trusted relationships across engineering teams and mission stakeholders through technical credibility, transparency, and effective communication.
• Continuously evaluate industry trends and emerging technologies to identify opportunities that improve platform capabilities and mission outcomes.

Expected Outcomes:

• Improve customer satisfaction by translating operational needs into well-defined, high-value engineering initiatives.
• Increase engineering effectiveness through clear product requirements, prioritized backlogs, and transparent roadmap management.
• Strengthen collaboration and trust between mission stakeholders and platform engineering through consistent, mission focused technical engagement.
• Drive continuous improvement of the platform by balancing customer needs, engineering priorities, operational performance, and strategic platform investments.

This is a fully remote/hybrid position.

About the Must Haves

• Active Secret clearance at time of application
• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Minimum 8 years of progressively responsible experience designing, building, and operating production platforms
• Demonstrated experience managing technical products, platforms, or cloud-native services by defining product strategy, developing roadmaps, prioritizing backlogs, and delivering customer-focused capabilities
• Strong technical understanding of modern software development, cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, and platform engineering sufficient to evaluate engineering tradeoffs and effectively partner with technical teams
• Demonstrated ability to lead mission focused technical engagement by gathering customer requirements, building trusted relationships, and translating operational needs into actionable product requirements
• Experience balancing competing priorities, customer expectations, engineering capacity, security requirements, and long-term platform strategy to maximize mission value
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with executive leadership, mission stakeholders, and multidisciplinary engineering teams while influencing decisions through technical credibility and sound product judgment