Director of Product Management, Weather and Climate

Spire Global is seeking a visionary and execution-focused Director, Product Management to lead product strategy for our Weather Climate business unit. This senior leadership role is accountable for the full product lifecycle — from market discovery and business case development through roadmap execution and commercial launch — across our SaaS and DaaS portfolio.

Reporting to executive leadership, the Director will partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Customer Experience, Engineering, and Data Science teams to identify unmet industry needs, define differentiated solutions, and bring first-to-market products that generate durable revenue and competitive advantage. The ideal candidate combines deep domain expertise in meteorology, atmospheric science, or weather technology with the commercial instincts and leadership skills to shape a high-growth product portfolio.

Markets Domains

The Director will own and evolve Spire's product strategy across the following markets:

Renewable Energy — wind solar forecasting

Energy Utilities — grid reliability outage risk

Energy Commodity Trading — weather-driven market signals

Smart Agriculture — field-level agrometeorology

Soil Moisture Modeling Remote Sensing

Government Defense Weather Programs

Aviation Weather (nice to have)

Emerging Climate Risk Resilience Markets

Insurance Risk Management — weather-driven risk assessment underwriting

Parametric Insurance Solutions — index-based triggers payout modeling

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy Roadmap

Define and own the multi-year product strategy and roadmap for Spire's Weather Climate SaaS and DaaS portfolio, aligned with corporate growth objectives

Conduct continuous market research, competitive intelligence, and customer discovery to identify high-value industry problems and whitespace opportunities

Develop and prioritize product investment theses backed by rigorous business cases, financial modeling, and ROI analysis

Identify and execute first-to-market product opportunities that create competitive moats and expand Spire's addressable market

Product Development Execution

Lead cross-functional product development from concept through general availability, partnering with engineering, data science, and design teams

Apply agile product development methodologies with structured stage-gate processes for new market entries

Define product requirements, acceptance criteria, and success metrics; hold teams accountable to delivery timelines and quality standards

Collaborate with the weather modeling team to integrate AI/ML modeling and toolsets into software products and services

Integrate Spire’s GNSS-RO, GNSS-R, and Hyperspectral Microwave Sounding data into end user products and solutions, including ocean surface winds forecasts and soil moisture forecasts derived from GNSS-R

Champion the adoption of AI tools across the product management and software development lifecycles — including AI-assisted roadmapping, requirements generation, code acceleration, automated testing, and documentation — to increase team velocity and product output

Commercial Go-to-Market Leadership

Partner with Sales to develop solution narratives, competitive positioning, pricing frameworks, and deal support for strategic accounts

Provide sales engineering support to the Sales team — including technical demonstrations, proof-of-concept engagements, RFP/RFI responses, and solution scoping for complex enterprise opportunities

Collaborate with Marketing on product launch campaigns, industry event strategy, and demand generation content

Engage directly with enterprise customers and strategic prospects to validate roadmap direction, gather use-case requirements, and close feedback loops

Work with Customer Experience to monitor product adoption, retention risk, and NPS signals — translating insights into product improvements

Build and maintain competitive intelligence frameworks to anticipate competitor moves and proactively flank with superior solutions

Leadership Team Development

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of product managers across the Weather Climate portfolio

Represent Weather Climate product strategy to the executive team, board-level stakeholders, and external partners

Contribute to M A evaluation, partnership diligence, and integration planning as the product subject matter expert

Required Qualifications

8+ years of progressive product management experience with demonstrated ownership of commercial weather, meteorological, or atmospheric data products

Deep technical domain expertise in at least three of the following: numerical weather prediction (NWP), mesoscale meteorology, GNSS-RO atmospheric sounding, AI/ML-based forecasting, radar/satellite data processing, or climate modeling

Demonstrated experience adopting and scaling AI tools within product management and software development workflows — such as AI-assisted product discovery, sprint planning, code generation, QA automation, or technical documentat…