Senior Technical Product Manager
Company: viasat
Location: Carlsbad
Posted on: March 25, 2026
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Job Description:
About us 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. What youll do We are thrilled to
announce an exciting opportunity for an onsite Senior Technical
Product Manager to join our dynamic team in Carlsbad, CA! As a
Senior Technical Product Manager in Viasat’s Data & AI
organization, you will collaborate alongside Engineering to develop
and implement the vision and strategy. This vision supports a
unified intelligent data infrastructure. It helps teams across the
company build intelligent, data-driven products at scale. You will
help develop the foundational capabilities, shared services, and
tooling that increase development velocity, improve data
availability, and accelerate innovation. By driving platform and AI
adoption, deeply understanding customer needs, and ensuring strong
alignment with engineering, you will enable a reliable, secure, and
intuitive platform experience for all builders. Your work will
support the Data & AI environment at Viasat by reducing friction
and promoting consistency. It will also unlock new opportunities
for teams to deliver AI-powered product experiences. The day-to-day
Define and evolve the strategy for our Data & AI platform, ensuring
it accelerates product development and aligns with company
priorities. Own the roadmap, prioritizing foundational data
services, AI/ML capabilities, and developer tooling that deliver
clear value to engineering teams. Deeply understand internal
customers, capturing feedback and analyzing usage patterns to
identify friction points and shape platform improvements. Partner
closely with Engineering to define requirements, guide
architectural decisions, and drive execution of secure, scalable,
high?quality platform capabilities. Advance AI enablement,
promoting adoption of AI/ML services, automation, and emerging
Agentic AI capabilities across product teams. Communicate strategy
and progress to collaborators, ensuring alignment across
leadership, engineering, security, and data teams. Lead feature
rollouts and change management, driving awareness, documentation,
and onboarding to increase platform adoption. Continuously evaluate
new technologies and find opportunities to enhance developer
experience, improve data accessibility, and reduce operational
overhead. What youll need Proven experience (7 years) in product
management with a strong focus on data platforms, AI/ML
infrastructure, analytics platforms, or developer?focused products.
Strong technical depth in modern Data & AI ecosystems—e.g., data
pipelines, data warehouses/lakes, AI platforms, feature stores,
observability, distributed systems, or cloud?native services.
Demonstrated success leading through OKRs, setting measurable
objectives, driving alignment across teams, and continuously
tracking outcomes to inform iteration. Ability to partner deeply
with engineering, contributing to architectural discussions and
translating complex technical concepts into clear product
decisions. Hands?on experience driving platform adoption, developer
enablement, or building products used by internal engineering
teams. Strong analytical abilities, with experience using metrics,
usage data, and customer insights to guide prioritization and
measure platform impact. Excellent communication skills, capable of
articulating strategy, trade?offs, and value propositions to
technical and non?technical audiences. Familiarity with AI/ML
technologies, including LLMs, model development workflows, MLOps
practices, automation, and emerging technologies like Agentic AI. A
customer?obsessed mentality, demonstrating an understanding of
developer needs, eliminating friction, and delivering intuitive
platform experiences. A bias for action, comfort with ambiguity,
and the ability to drive clarity, structure, and momentum in
complex technical environments. Bachelor’s degree in computer
science, engineering, or equivalent experience Able to travel up to
20% What will help you on the job Experience building or supporting
cloud?based data platforms, especially on Google Cloud Platform
(GCP). Knowledge of AI/ML frameworks and tools, and an
understanding of how engineering teams develop, deploy, and
operationalize models at scale. Solid understanding of the
end?to?end data lifecycle, including large?scale data collection,
real?time and batch processing, and efficient storage patterns.
Hands?on knowledge of GCP data technologies such as BigQuery,
Google Cloud Storage (GCS), Cloud Composer, Dataplex, and streaming
tools like Kafka. Experience applying data governance and
compliance standards, including data quality, metadata management,
and stewardship processes. Solid understanding of data privacy,
governance, and security principles, along with the ability to stay
current on evolving global regulatory requirements. Familiarity
with agile methodologies such as Scrum, and proficiency with tools
like JIRA for planning and Workboard for tracking OKRs and driving
alignment. Salary range $167,000.00 - $264,000.00 / annually. For
specific work locations within San Jose, the San Francisco Bay area
and New York City metropolitan area, the base pay range for this
role is $207,500.00- $311,500.00/ annually At Viasat, we consider
many factors when it comes to compensation, including the scope of
the position as well as your background and experience. Base pay
may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and
experience. Additional cash or stock incentives may be provided as
part of the compensation package, in addition to a range of
medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the
position offered. EEO Statement Viasat is proud to be an equal
opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse
environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration
for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender,
gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin,
ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital
status, genetics, age, or veteran status or any other applicable
legally protected status or characteristic.
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