Technical Product Manager - Karthik Consulting

Position Description

SPA is seeking a Technical Product Manager to drive product strategy, roadmap development, and mission focused technical engagement for our platform as a service solution supporting software delivery for Space Systems Command. This role serves as one of four primary liaisons between various mission stakeholders and platform engineering, ensuring platform capabilities align with customer priorities while advancing the long-term platform vision. As a Technical Product Manager, you will work directly with mission teams to understand operational challenges, identify opportunities for platform innovation, and translate customer needs into prioritized product capabilities. Working closely with engineering teams, you will recommend product direction, advise on the platform roadmap, prioritize competing requirements within your assigned mission area, and ensure platform initiatives deliver measurable mission value. The ideal candidate combines strong product management experience with a solid technical foundation in cloud-native platforms, software engineering, and DevSecOps. You are comfortable engaging with senior mission stakeholders and engineering teams alike, asking insightful technical questions, evaluating solution tradeoffs, and making informed product decisions that balance mission needs, technical feasibility, security, and long-term platform sustainability.

Compensation

Karthik Consulting is committed to providing competitive compensation based on the responsibilities of the role, required qualifications, security clearance level, relevant experience, certifications, customer requirements, geographic location, and overall business needs. The salary range listed for this position (170k-195k) represents a good-faith estimate of the current compensation range for this role.

At Karthik Consulting, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the salary range. Final compensation decisions are based on the facts and circumstances of each candidate’s experience, qualifications, certifications, clearance level, contract requirements, and overall alignment with the role.

Employees may be eligible for company benefits and additional compensation programs, subject to company policy, contract requirements, and individual eligibility.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary product owner for assigned mission area platform user, representing customer priorities while maintaining alignment with the long-term platform strategy.
• Lead mission-focused technical engagement with stakeholders to understand operational challenges, gather product requirements, and identify opportunities for new platform capabilities.
• Develop, maintain, and communicate a prioritized product roadmap that balances mission value, engineering effort, technical debt, security, and operational sustainability.