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Senior Product Manager

Sift

El Segundo, CA
Full Time
Senior
160k-200k
10 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

At Sift, we're redefining how modern machines are built, tested, and operated. Our platform gives engineers real-time observability over high-frequency telemetry—eliminating bottlenecks and enabling faster, more reliable development. Sift was born from our work at SpaceX on Dragon, Falcon, Starlink, and Starship—where scaling telemetry, debugging flight systems, and ensuring mission reliability demanded new infrastructure. Founded by a SpaceX, Google, and Palantir team, Sift is built for mission-critical systems where precision and scalability are non-negotiable. As a founding Product Manager at Sift, you'll drive strategic, cross-functional initiatives to make our product more scalable, reliable, and impactful for mission-critical use cases, defining the roadmap for key areas such as AI-driven observability to modernize the hardware observability stack. You will partner closely with engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to ensure alignment and momentum, focusing on improving platform performance, usability, and resilience for demanding customers while refining team strategies and processes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of major initiatives within Sift's product, ensuring short-term tactics align with long-term goals.
  • Establish close relationships with customers to uncover their needs and validate opportunities.
  • Own the product development lifecycle from ideation to launch, ensuring alignment with company goals and user needs.
  • Collaborate with the go-to-market, design, and engineering teams to set priorities, optimize the product roadmap, and drive business objectives.
  • Conduct market research and competitive analysis to shape product strategy, identifying opportunities to expand value and leverage new technologies, such as AI.
  • Set up instrumentation to measure and validate product value, ensuring product decisions are based on clear metrics.
  • Curate documentation and educate the go-to-market team on new features.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience as a product manager with a proven track record of delivering complex B2B SaaS products. Experience at an early-stage startup is a strong plus.
  • An ability to synthesize myriad inputs and build a cohesive roadmap.
  • Strong customer empathy with a history of building relationships, conducting deep research, and translating insights into product features.
  • Proven ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams and lead cross-functional collaboration without being a bottleneck.
  • Strong understanding of product prioritization frameworks and experience building products that deliver measurable value to customers.
  • Technical fluency, with the ability to discuss and align on engineering trade-offs and communicate technical concepts to various stakeholders.

Nice to Have

  • Experience in data warehousing/lake housing (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, Iceberg).
  • Experience with data job orchestration (e.g. Dagster, Airflow).
  • Experience with batch and stream processing systems (e.g. Kafka, Spark, Flink).
  • Knowledge of data cataloging, discoverability, and life-cycle management.
  • Experience with data science models, integrations, or data pipeline development (DBT, Fivetran, AirByte).
  • Familiarity with enterprise SaaS cloud platform features, such as IAM, security, billing, and multi-tenancy.

Qualifications

  • Must be a U.S. Citizen or Green Card Holder due to ITAR/EAR compliance requirements.

Benefits & Perks

  • Salary range: $160,000 - $200,000 per year.
  • Plus equity and benefits.

Working at Sift

Sift is a customer-centric company based in El Segundo, collaborating in person twice a week. We work closely with hardware companies, many based in LA, building everything from autonomous vehicles to spacecraft. Being nearby for site visits and collaboration is essential, and we are open to relocating candidates to LA.

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Job Details

Posted AtJun 11, 2025
Job CategoryProduct Management
Salary160k-200k
Job TypeFull Time
Work ModeOnsite
ExperienceSenior

About Sift

Website

siftstack.com

Company Size

11-50 employees

Location

El Segundo, CA

Industry

Software Publishers

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