Program Manager at ICEYE

Role Highlights

• Title:Program Manager
• Data Business Line, Product Management
• Location: Warsaw, Poland or Espoo, Finland
• Reporting to Program Management Lead
• Type of contract: Permanent
• Hybrid (2 days remote) / Office
• Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO, where required)

The Mission of the Program Manager

Own complex projects ensuring key customers successfully use ICEYE data. —you act as the central driver for customer success. Your work directly ensures customers can effectively integrate and benefit from ICEYE data, which is essential for realizing business value and maintaining strong customer relationships.

Who We Are

ICEYE delivers space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities to governments and allied nations. This includes sovereign and turnkey ISR missions leveraging ICEYE’s world-leading synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite technology, as well as access to data from the world’s largest SAR satellite constellation. These capabilities enable partners to detect and respond to critical changes anywhere on Earth with unprecedented speed and accuracy – day or night and in any weather, supported by ultra high-resolution imagery and high-frequency revisits.

As a trusted partner for defense, intelligence, security, and maritime domain awareness, ICEYE’s near real-time data creates a tactical advantage for mission-critical operations. Designed for dual use, the platform also serves civil protection and commercial users for natural-catastrophe intelligence, insurance, maritime monitoring (including oil-spill detection), and finance, contributing to global security and community resilience.

ICEYE operates internationally with offices in Finland, Poland, Spain, Japan, the UAE, Greece, and the US. The company has more than 900 employees, inspired by the shared vision of improving life on Earth by becoming the global source of truth in Earth Observation.

Expected Outcomes & Requirements

Outcomes:

The program manager is responsible for owning 1-3 highly complex projects that enable key customers to effectively receive and benefit from ICEYE data. As a program manager, you will undertake the planning and designing of the program, while proactively monitoring its progress and resolving any issues that may arise.

You will have the opportunity to initiate appropriate corrective action and manage all aspects of project delivery, including software development, hardware procurement, formal tests, shipping and logistics, customer acceptance, and training. Collaboration with ICEYE's internal engineering, operations, legal, finance, and sales teams will be crucial in making informed decisions and securing stakeholder advocacy.

Additionally, you will be responsible for communicating project status and issue resolutions directly with management and key customers.

Requirements

• Demonstrated a track record of the hands-on program or project management

• 5 years experience as a program manager, project manager, integrated program team lead, or similar
• Project management skills and toolsets and supporting software
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to manage a project team daily and communicate effectively with both customers and company stakeholders
• The ability to initiate, develop, integrate, execute, direct, and control program plans, and cost and schedule baselines that meet both program contractual requirements and stakeholder expectations
• Bachelor’s degree in technical or business fields

In addition to the above, it would be beneficial if you had the below attributes and skills:

• Knowledge about EO and SAR
• Being familiar with new space business
• Experience with remote sensing programs and/or products
• Experience working in a fast-paced startup/scaleup environment
  

Role-specific Competences

• Establish and manage program baselines and schedules
• Create, review, and execute program Statements of Work
• Participate in the negotiation of contracts, contract changes, specifications, operating budgets, schedule milestones, and key terms and conditions
• Interface with engineering, product, operations, and software teams to meet cost, schedule, and technical performance objectives
• Deliver presentations to customers and internal stakeholders
• Identify, delegate, track, and complete program requirements while measuring and reporting program performance
• Proactively lead risk and opportunity management practices,
• Ensure compliance with all internal and customer-mandated processes, policies, and relevant industry standards
• Establish and maintain rapport with customers to identify and mature new growth opportunities

Key Competences

In addition to the requirements above, we evaluate candidates on these key qualities throughout the hiring process:

• Intellectual Firepower: Rapidly comprehends, structures and synthesizes complex information, draws accurate conclusions, and communicates them with clarity.
• Passion & Work Ethic: Brings sustained motivation, resilience, and high personal standards to every challenge.
• Ownership & Action: Assumes full accountability for outcomes, acting decisively, and ensuring commitments are delivered.
• Team Player: Works collaboratively across teams, contributing to shared success, and engaging in constructive debate.
• Integrity & Growth Mindset: Operates with transparency and humility, learns from setbacks, and actively seeks opportunities to grow.

Application Process:

1. TA Screening (45min)
2. Hiring Manager call (60 min)
3. Call with a team member
4. Call with Senior VP, Data Product
5. Final Interview