Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight, the key technology for the future of drones and aerial mobility. The Skydio team combines deep expertise in artificial intelligence, best-in-class hardware and software product development, operational excellence, and customer obsession to empower a broader, more diverse audience of drone users. From utility inspectors to first responders, soldiers in battlefield scenarios and beyond.
About the Role
As a Senior Product Manager for Fleet Management, you'll lead the vision and execution for how customers manage large-scale drone deployments, ensuring visibility, fleet health, and compliance across distributed operations. You’ll work across cloud services, APIs, and UX to create seamless, powerful tools for managing autonomous systems at scale.
Location
This position is based onsite 5 days/week at our HQ in San Mateo, CA. We offer relocation assistance if needed.
How you'll make an impact:
- Own and evolve the roadmap for Skydio’s Fleet Management capabilities spanning device observability and health monitoring, troubleshooting and support tooling, and general customer organization administration (user, data, settings, and integration management)
- Drive feature definition and prioritization in close collaboration with design, engineering, and go-to-market teams
- Wireframe and validate UX flows that make complex workflows simple and actionable
- Contribute to discussions on backend data models, system architecture, and API design with engineering
- Engage with customers, prospects, and internal stakeholders to understand core business problems to develop and iterate user personas and their use case-specific requirements.
- Communicate plans and progress clearly across stakeholders; follow through to launch and adoption
- Collaborate with marketing, support, and customer success to deliver impactful product releases
What would make you a strong fit:
- 2–5+ years defining and delivering market-leading software products, including specific experience leading development of compelling user-facing software for complex, electronic hardware products. Drone experience is a plus but not required.
- Ability to work autonomously with exceptional attention to detail and execution
Experience wireframing and collaborating closely with UX design - Familiarity with data modeling and API-driven architectures; able to reason about systems at scale
- Strong technical fluency and ability to work effectively across autonomy, firmware, and cloud engineering teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Deep curiosity and empathy for users managing real-world, operational complexity. Excitement to travel to customer sites and engage with end-users to gain a deep understanding of real problems and how Skydio can best solve them.
Compensation: At Skydio, our compensation packages for regular, full-time employees include competitive base salaries, equity in the form of stock options, and comprehensive benefits packages. Compensation will vary based on factors, including skill level, proficiencies, transferable knowledge, and experience. Relocation assistance may also be provided for eligible roles. The annual base salary range for this position is $125,000 - $160,000*. Fundamentally, we believe that equity is the key to long-term financial growth, and we ensure all regular, full-time employees have the opportunity to significantly benefit from the company's success. Regular, full-time employees are eligible to enroll in the Company’s group health insurance plans. Regular, full-time employees are eligible to receive the following benefits: Paid vacation time, sick leave, holiday pay and 401K savings plan. This position and all associated benefits are subject to applicable federal, state, and local laws, as well as the Company’s policies and eligibility criteria.
*Compensation for certain positions may vary based on the position’s location.
#LI-RQ1At Skydio we believe that diversity drives innovation. We have created a multidisciplinary environment that embraces the power of diverse perspectives to create elegant solutions for complex problems. We are committed to growing our network of people, programs, and resources to nurture an inclusive culture.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local anti-discrimination laws.
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