Staff Product Manager, Cameras & Sensors

Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight, the key technology for the future of drones and aerial mobility. The Skydio team combines deep expertise in artificial intelligence, best-in-class hardware and software product development, operational excellence, and customer obsession to empower a broader, more diverse audience of drone users, from utility inspectors https://www.skydio.com/solutions/energy-and-utilities to first responders https://www.skydio.com/solutions/public-safety, soldiers in battlefield scenarios https://www.skydio.com/solutions/national-security/tactical-isr, and beyond https://www.skydio.com/solutions.

As Staff Product Manager for Cameras and Sensors, you will lead the strategy and execution for Skydio’s camera payloads and capture experience spanning photo and video. This includes camera modules and sensors, lenses and optics, stabilization and gimbal systems, and the embedded software and customer-facing workflows that turn raw data into actionable customer outcomes. You will work just as closely with customers as you will product and engineering to deliver best-in-class experiences across Skydio’s full family of flying robots.

How you’ll make an impact

- Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Skydio’s drone imaging stack, spanning camera modules, sensors, gimbals/stabilization, and customer workflows across photo and video.

- Deeply understand customer missions and workflows through field visits, ride-alongs, analytics, and hands-on testing, then translate those insights into clear product direction and priorities.

- Define product requirements that connect real-world outcomes to measurable imaging performance, such as resolution, low-light performance, dynamic range, motion/stabilization, latency, reliability, and environmental robustness.

- Partner with engineering leaders across hardware, optics, firmware, ISP/imaging pipelines, computer vision, and AI to make smart tradeoffs on architecture, performance, cost, size/weight/power, manufacturability, and schedule. You’ll need to be able to speak their language.

- Establish clear success metrics and use usage analytics, captured media quality, and direct customer feedback to drive continuous improvement and ultimately own the outcome.

- Collaborate with sales, solutions, and customer success to support deployments, understand adoption barriers, and ensure products meet the customer need throughout their lifecycle.

- Partner with product marketing to develop launch plans, product positioning, and messaging to bring your products to market and drive meaningful customer impact.

What makes you a good fit

- 5+ years of experience defining and delivering complex hardware products with tightly integrated software, with clear ownership of roadmap and execution.

- Deep technical understanding of IoT or camera/sensor product technologies, with a natural ability to translate into customer needs.

- Ability to lead