AST SpaceMobile is building the first and only global cellular broadband network in space to operate directly with standard, unmodified mobile devices based on our extensive IP and patent portfolio and designed for both commercial and government applications. Our engineers and space scientists are on a mission to eliminate the connectivity gaps faced by today's five billion mobile subscribers and finally bring broadband to the billions who remain unconnected.
Position Overview
The Technical Product Manager (India) is accountable for defining, managing, and validating product requirements for satellitegateway and RAN delivery across global deployment programs. This role ensures that technical specifications, operational workflows, and deployment constraints are aligned to support efficient rollout and sustained, highquality service performance.
Positioned at the intersection of technical product design, deployment engineering, and satellitegateway/RAN integration governance, this role requires a strong balance of engineering depth, operational insight, and disciplined delivery execution. The Technical Product Manager plays a critical role in accelerating rollout velocity, improving readiness quality, and enabling the Activation Director's mandate to deliver marketready infrastructure at scale and speed.
This position is responsible for gathering Indiaspecific requirements, managing configuration landscapes, supporting highlevel design activities, validating product readiness, and ensuring that all features and integrations satisfy global acceptance criteria, operational standards, and activation milestones.
Key Responsibilities
Product Requirements & Technical Alignment
- Lead Indiabased requirements gathering for satellitegateway and RAN deployment product features.
- Translate deployment needs, operational constraints, and integration challenges into structured product specifications.
- Define highlevel product designs supporting gateway installation, site integration, activation, and endtoend readiness.
Configuration & Integration Governance
- Manage configuration sets required for gateway and RAN deployments, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and traceability.
- Coordinate with RF, core, OSS, gateway, and deployment engineering teams to validate product configurations for global market activations.
- Support configuration reviews, parameter governance, and alignment with acceptance and readiness checkpoints.
Product Readiness Validation & Acceptance Support
- Validate product readiness through design reviews, operational checks, configuration verification, and controlled deployments.
- Ensure product features, integrations, and service behaviors meet global acceptance criteria and performance thresholds.
- Support field validation, probebased test alignment, and crossteam telemetry verification.
CrossFunctional Coordination & Delivery Enablement
- Work closely with engineering, NOC, PMO, deployment teams, and service delivery functions to align product readiness with deployment schedules.
- Provide highlevel designs, documentation, readiness artifacts, and structured handover packages for activation and operations.
- Ensure product capabilities align with realworld deployment needs across diverse regulatory and operational environments.
Documentation, Change Management & Communication
- Develop documentation including HLDs, configuration guides, integration notes, acceptance templates, and readiness documents.
- Maintain product roadmaps, version control, change logs, and impact assessments for deployment cycles.
- Communicate product updates, risks, timelines, and dependencies across global and regional stakeholders.
Continuous Improvement & Deployment Optimization
- Documentation, Change Management & Communication
- Develop documentation including HLDs, configuration guides, integration notes, acceptance templates, and readiness documents.
- Maintain product roadmaps, version control, change logs, and impact assessments for deployment cycles.
Deliverables
- Product requirement documents (PRDs), highlevel designs (HLDs), and configuration governance packages.
- Deployment readiness templates, integration summaries, and acceptance documentation.
- Configuration version sets, change logs, and feature impact assessments.
- KPIaligned readiness reports and crossteam communication updates.
- Activation support packages enabling smooth transition to operations and NOC workflows.
Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications, ECE, Computer Engineering, or related technical field.
- Master's degree or Product/Project certifications (CSPO, PMP, Agile) preferred.
Experience
- 610 years of experience in technical product management, telecom integration, RAN delivery, or gateway deployment programs.
- Experience defining product requirements for largescale telecom or satellitenetwork deployments.
- Strong background in integration workflows, configuration governance, and deployment readiness validation.
- Experience collaborating with global delivery teams and multiregion technical stakeholders.
Required Technical Expertise
- Solid understanding of gateway systems, RAN integration flows, satelliteenabled architectures, and OSS/NOC hooks.
- Familiarity with CIQ, parameter sets, configuration governance, and acceptance frameworks.
- Knowledge of readiness KPIs, validation processes, integration checkpoints, and operational handoff workflows.
- Ability to interpret telemetry, probe results, traces, HLDs, and deployment artifacts.
Professional Skills
- Strong analytical thinking with ability to convert technical requirements into structured, actionable product specifications.
- Excellent crossfunctional communication across engineering, deployment, operations, and leadership teams.
- Detailoriented with disciplined documentation, configuration management, and version control habits.
- Strong prioritization skills, capable of managing multiple deployment timelines simultaneously.
- Proactive, problemsolving mindset with a focus on accelerating readiness and minimizing rework.
Technology Proficiency
- Requirements and collaboration tools: Jira, Confluence, Aha!, Notion.
- HLD/LLD and documentation tools: Visio, Lucidchart, Draw.io.
- KPI and telemetry platforms: Grafana, Kibana, Power BI.
- Familiarity with OSS/NMS interfaces and telecom configuration tools.
Physical Requirements
- Ability to work across global time zones and participate in remote review sessions.
- Willingness to travel within India or internationally for workshops, readiness reviews, or activation support.
This job description may not be inclusive to the duties and responsibilities listed. Additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time or the scope of the job may change as needed by business demands.
AST SpaceMobile is an Equal Opportunity, at will Employer; employment is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
