Katalyst Product Manager at Katalyst responsible for defining and maintaining product roadmaps aligned with company strategy and customer needs. Own product backlog prioritization and deliver technical demonstrations to customers and stakeholders.
Responsibilities
Product Roadmap & Strategic Planning
Define and maintain product roadmaps aligned with company strategy, customer needs, and market opportunities.
Own the product backlog, ensuring features are prioritized, clearly defined, and ready for engineering teams to execute.
Provide executives with visibility into product progress, milestones, risks, and key decisions.
Translate customer feedback, stakeholder needs, and business opportunities into clear requirements and user stories.
Balance competing priorities, customer commitments, technical constraints, and mission requirements to deliver maximum value.
Technical Demonstrations & External Communication
Own and deliver product demonstrations to customers, government stakeholders, and partners with sufficient technical depth to address detailed questions.
Prepare and present product briefings that translate complex technical capabilities into clear customer and mission value.
Serve as a primary product point of contact for external stakeholders, ensuring communication is accurate, compelling, and aligned with product capabilities.
Coordinate with engineering and contribute directly to demonstrations that showcase capabilities relevant to stakeholder priorities.
Your Ideal BackgroundBachelor’s degree in Computer Science
Required
Technical Fluency – You can understand complex technical products, engage credibly with engineering teams, and quickly learn unfamiliar domains.
Customer Focus and Presentation Skills – You uncover customer needs and deliver compelling demonstrations and briefings to technical, operational, and executive audiences.
Comfort with Ambiguity – You thrive when requirements evolve, priorities shift, and information is incomplete.
Strategic Thinking – You prioritize for impact with constrained resources and clearly articulate the reasoning behind product decisions.
Ownership and Execution – You turn broad goals into actionable plans, align teams, and drive work through completion.
Willingness to Travel – You are willing to travel approximately 25% to maintain stakeholder relationships, support demonstrations, and gather product feedback.
Your Ideal Background
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field.
3–5 years of product management experience with technical products, ideally in aerospace, defense, robotics, software, or another complex engineering environment.
Experience taking products or major capabilities from discovery and requirements definition through development, launch, and iteration.
Demonstrated ability to learn complex technical domains and translate customer needs into actionable product requirements.
Experience working with government or DoD customers is preferred, including familiarity with acquisition processes and operational needs.
