Skydio · 4 days ago
Director of Product Management, Drone as First Responder (DFR)
San Mateo, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$196K/yr - $250K/yr
10+ years expSkydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight. As the Director of Product Management for Skydio’s Drone as First Responder (DFR) offering, you will own the end-to-end software features that enable Public Safety and Emergency Responder customers to perform scaled remote drone operations.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Drone ManagementDronesMachine LearningRobotics
Responsibilities
Own the business of our end-to-end DFR offering, meeting company financial and market growth goals in partnership with GTM and Engineering
Actively meet with customers and internal stakeholders to build expertise in critical DFR use cases and pain points to solve
Leverage strong technical understanding of cloud connected devices and enterprise-level management to ideate and deliver high-value products and features
Define the full end-to-end DFR customer experience spanning cloud admin management, real time drone operations, flight experience, logging and media offload
Collaborate with Platform PMs to prioritize and drive the DFR roadmap, product requirements and key performance metrics
Enable GTM and lead successful launches for DFR products, features, and improvements
Lead cross functional teams to address in-market issues, to ensure Skydio’s DFR platform is world-leading in reliability and meeting customer core needs
Qualification
Required
10+ years defining and launching complex enterprise-grade solutions, with backend admin controls as well as end-user UI and experiences
Engineering or other technical educational background that makes you at home in deep discussions with engineers on complex technical challenges and tradeoffs
Customer-driven with examples leaning in and working directly with customers to solve for their workflows and problems
Excellent communicator, experienced in sharing out complex information in an understandable delivery for executive-level customers, external partners and internal stakeholders
Ability to utilize experience doing market analysis to drive efficient data-driven decisions
Preferred
Professional background in drones, flight interfaces, Drone Management and/or DFR software offerings
Professional background in real-time crime center (RTCCs) or Real-Time Operations software solutions
Professional background in Public Safety as a career, or developed deep expertise working closely with them as customers
Professional background in using drones for ISR for Federal agencies, or equivalent experience working closely with them as customers
Expertise in the enterprise drone market and DFR offerings specifically
Experience flying drones professionally or in crewed flight
Benefits
Equity in the form of stock options
Comprehensive benefits packages
Paid vacation time
Sick leave
Holiday pay
401K savings plan
Company
Skydio
Skydio uses artificial intelligence to create flying drones that are used by consumer, enterprise, and government customers.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$740MKey Investors
Linse CapitalAndreessen HorowitzN47
2024-11-15Series E· $170M
2023-02-27Series E· $230M
2021-02-28Series D· $170M
Leadership Team
Adam Bry
Co-founder & CEO
Tom Moss
COO (2018-2020), CEO APAC (2020-2024), Chief Corp Dev (2024~)
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