About Pixxel

Pixxel is a space data company, building a constellation of hyperspectral earth imaging satellites
and the analytical tools to mine insights from that data. Pixxel’s constellation is designed to
provide global coverage every 24 hours and help detect, monitor, and predict global phenomena
across agriculture, mining, environment and energy use cases..

Pixxel is on a mission to build a health monitor for the planet through a constellation of
cutting-edge hyperspectral small satellites. This unique hyperspectral capability will be the key
to unearth underlying, unseen problems that are invisible to satellites in orbit today.

Pixxel has collaborated with prominent organizations such as the Indian Space Research
Organization, NASA JPL, and SpaceX among other leaders in the space industry. The organization
is backed by Lightspeed, Radical Ventures, Relativity's Jordan Noone, Seraphim Capital, Ryan
Johnson, Blume Ventures, Sparta LLC and Accenture among others.

Recently, Pixxel successfully raised $36 Million in its Series B funding round, with participation from
new investors like Google, alongside existing investors, bringing the company's total venture funding
to $71 Million.

To know more about us, visit https://www.pixxel.space.

Job Description

Function: Product Management

At Pixxel, It’s not enough for us to simply deliver satellite images to users. We believe it’s crucial
to provide the end users with the necessary tools to effectively work with this imagery and other
data, enabling them to derive insights seamlessly on a single platform without any hassle.To
achieve this objective, we are building “Aurora” - an all-inclusive platform catering to a wide
range of tasks within the remote sensing and geospatial analytics domain.

The Aurora platform will offer a seamless user experience, empowering individuals and
organizations to accomplish various tasks. These tasks include requesting satellite imagery for
specific regions, importing and analyzing diverse datasets using advanced analytics and
machine learning models, and obtaining valuable insights, alerts, and recommendations.
Furthermore, the platform will facilitate tracking actions based on recommendations and
monitoring their impact.

As an Associate Product Manager for Aurora, you will take ownership of multiple products and
features across the funnel (Acquisition → Activation → Monetization → Retention → Referral).

In this role, you will work cross-functionally with Pixxel's Engineering Team including Software
Engineers and Cloud Engineers, as well as Machine Learning Engineers, Geospatial Analysts,
the Satellite Team and Pixxel's commercialisation teams (Sales, Marketing, Customer Success)
to collaborate on the product roadmap.

If interested, please share your resume at akshat@pixxel.co.in and join@pixxel.co.in

Responsibilities:
● Own and drive product features through their entire product life cycle: ideation, design,
specification, development, release, analysis, and iteration.
● Conduct market research, competitor analysis, and customer interviews to identify
customer needs and market trends.
● Talk to customers, the sales team & company leadership to understand how our AI / ML
models and products can help large enterprises leverage satellite data to optimize their
operations and improve resiliency.
● Drive product strategy and define roadmaps, MVPs with a focus on business outcomes.
● Come up with solutions for end user’s problems and design simplified BPMN 2.0
diagrams, user flow diagrams, wireframes and UX prototypes.
● Write Product Requirement Documents, Functional Specification Documents, create,
and maintain a prioritized product backlog and user stories.
● Groom the requirements thoroughly for the development team and manage the delivery
of features with an agile framework and ceremonies like sprint planning, scrum, etc.
● Ruthless prioritization - Among the hundreds of use cases, features, and products that
we can build, you will be responsible for defining what to build and what not to build.
● Translate & define outputs from AI & ML models into the platform user interface to help
different user personas in large client enterprises.
● Manage the day-to-day operations in the product life-cycle.
● Define, measure, report, and drive the improvement of product metrics.
● Collaborate with teams across the organization to deliver the product features.
● Track features to timely delivery by removing any communication gaps and roadblocks
across the teams.
● Test each and every small/big feature like an end user.
● Write user manuals, FAQs, API documentations to enable seamless user experience
and improve feature adoption.
● Present product feature demos to various internal and external stakeholders.
● Act as a product evangelist, internally and externally, by providing required product
documentation, presentations, training, and support to sales, marketing and customer
success teams.

Requirements:
● 3-5 years of total work experience
● 1-2 years of experience in product management in B2B SaaS
● 1-2 years of hands-on experience in AI/ML or Geospatial Analytics in the past.
● Location: Indiranagar, Bangalore [Work from Office]
● Focus on a deep understanding of the problem and then defining the problem first,
instead of jumping to a solution directly.
● Hands-on approach with customers, technology, and design, whether it's about getting
on a call with customers, creating wireframes, or writing tech specs for the product.
● Comfortable doing research to understand, structure and analyze ambiguous customer
problems.
● Customer Obsession and Empathy - An individual with a deep, customer-focused
approach to identify and solve the correct user problems.
● Continuous learning, self-driven, and ownership of work without a need to follow up.
● Have a sense of urgency to solve customer problems and drive impact while being
humble and respectful when working cross-functionally across the organization.
● Strong desire to work in an unstructured, high-growth, fast-paced start-up environment
● Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
● Must be a data-driven person and be action oriented.
● Must love building new things, and enjoy the journey of creating user centric products.