Principal Product Manager, Networks Full Time NEW

About Skylo

Skylo is a global Non-Terrestrial Network service provider based in Mountain View, CA, offering a service that allows smartphone and IoT cellular devices to connect directly over existing satellites. Skylo’s direct-to-device service is now live on millions of activated devices across five continents, with more than 60 million square kilometers of coverage, in partnership with multiple satellite operators, mobile network operators (MNOs), Tier-1 chipset makers, and OEMs. Devices connected over satellite are managed and served by Skylo’s commercial NTN vRAN, featuring a 3GPP standards-based cloud-native base station and core. Skylo provides an anywhere, anytime connectivity solution that seamlessly roams between terrestrial and satellite networks. Our focus is on enabling connected services for people outdoors and connected workflows across three main verticals: mass-market consumer devices, automotive, and industrial IoT.

This role can be performed remotely with a preference for candidates located in Mountain View, CA, where we are onsite three days per week.

Summary Of How You Will Impact Skylo

Skylo is looking for a Principal Product Manager to define the commercial future of our network. You will be responsible for actively hunting for new market opportunities that our unique technology can unlock. You will sit at the intersection of Skylo’s engineering and the global market. Your mandate is to identify unique technical enablers—such as novel capabilities unlocked by standards in the future, or leverage internal research—and translate them into viable, end-to-end products. You will define the What and Why for our next generation of services, driving them from technical possibility to commercial reality across new verticals and unchartered markets.

Remote – US

How You Will Contribute 

• You will look outward to the market to identify unmet customer needs and map them to Skylo’s emerging technical capabilities. You will identify problems that Skylo’s engineering team has solved and package them into sellable solutions.
• Go beyond established MNO use cases to identify and validate entirely new market verticals. You will take ownership of these new opportunities, driving the execution from the initial paper concept through to the first commercial pilot.
• Define the long-term architectural path for Skylo’s network. You will evaluate high-stakes strategic trade-offs and determine how these choices create unique value propositions for new customer segments.
• Translate commercial objectives into clear engineering problems. You will define what success looks like for new services, moving beyond simple connectivity to define the end-to-end product experience, including SLAs, pricing models, and go-to-market packaging.
• Close the loop between technical feasibility and market appetite. You will continuously validate R&D concepts with customers, ensuring we invest engineering resources only in the capabilities that have a clear path to revenue.

What We Look For 

• 15+ years of related experience across product management, wireless systems engineering, telco strategy, M(V)NO/Telco ecosystem engagements (or 12+ years with a Master’s degree).
• You have a track record of transforming technical capabilities (like Telco stacks) into sellable products. You can explain why a feature matters to a customer, not just how it works.
• Experience making complex architectural bets. You can articulate the pros and cons of different network topologies and how they affect the end-user service experience.
• Expert-level knowledge of the M(V)NO end-to-end stack, roaming interfaces, 3GPP, NTN, D2D with the ability to apply this knowledge for strategic product definition.
• Ability to define key performance indicators (KPIs) for network services and use that data to drive the next generation of product requirements.

What We Offer

With employees working across three continents, Skylo is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. Our worldwide and inclusive culture encourages a flexible approach to work, and we also offer an attractive range benefits such as: 

• Competitive compensation packages including a stock option based equity program 
• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, retirement plan
• Monthly allowances for wellness and education reimbursement
• A generous time off policy, holidays, and the opportunity to temporarily work abroad
• Once in a lifetime opportunity to be a part of developing and running world’s first commercial, live direct-to-device satellite network and service 
• Access to world-class team and talent across tech domains: software, hardware, chipsets, telecom, satellite and network virtualization 
• Open, transparent, inclusive culture that blends the Silicon Valley, Nordic and South Asia characteristics

Additional information

The compensation range for this position is dependent on location. These ranges reflects the low and high end of the range Skylo reasonably and generally expects to pay the hired candidate in this role.

• Non–Bay Area (U.S.): $200,000 – $215,000
• Bay Area, CA: $230,000 – $240,000

EEO Statement
Skylo is an equal-opportunity employer and we celebrate diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, parent or caregiver status, political affiliation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. Please let us know if you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability.