Product Manager
Stell
Product
United States · Los Angeles, CA, USA · American Canyon, CA, USA · Outpost Estates, Los Angeles, CA, USA
USD 150k-190k / year + Equity
Posted on Aug 6, 2025
Product Manager
Stell Engineering, Inc
San Francisco or Los Angeles, CA based
This is an in-person role. 3 days per week on site required at either SF (downtown financial district “FiDi”) or LA (Venice Beach)
Must be US citizen or green card holder (due to ITAR restrictions)
Our customers include DOD programs, ship builders, launch vehicle providers, and satellite battery developers
Base salary range $150-$190k + equity
We are actively hiring for this position, start date is ASAP
About Stell
Stell helps aerospace and defense companies spend more time building and less time managing spreadsheets/PDFs for each product’s compliance to customer, technical, and regulatory requirements.
The Stell platform is digitizing requirements with a “living Specification” workflow.
Core product features:
Ingest and parse 100 page PDFs of technical system requirements and decompose them using a large language model into a block based document editor and a matrix that highlights the requirements statements
Matrix view allows engineers to tag, filter, and search requirements quickly - making navigating thousands of requirements on a complex program 10X faster
Matrix view allows multi relationship linking to other requirements in the program or system - so that engineers know when a customer changes a requirement how it affects other documents and design statements in their system down to the gritty part processing details
Matrix view allows linking to test results, research, and inspection records - allowing engineers to create an easy to view file which shows them how much of their engineering is complete and ready to be sent to a customer vs. the requirements for the system
Stell uses LLMs to automatically compare new versions of published specifications, and to compare interfacing documents to find risks and conflicting requirements. This is critical for developing new system of systems for space, naval, and energy applications with multiple hardware devices, softwares, and firmwares teaming for a solution.
Stell uses LLMs to find and highlight risks in the system development based on historical test results, change requests, and deviations and waivers. Stell is a co-pilot to engineering decision making.
In the Product Manager role you will:
Work directly with the CEO/CTO to ensure strategic direction of product. You will develop weekly and monthly documentation to highlight product priorities to the team.
Work directly with customers at Aerospace & Defense companies to develop strategy, PRDs, and review new features.
You will own velocity on core product - Review and give feedback on Figma of designs and cut Linear tickets for engineering. Ensure maximum clarity is found before code is written.
Plan each weekly cycle with engineering. You ensure planned work is achievable, ambitious, and the most critical to customer outcomes. You ensure wins and progress on product are celebrated and shown daily through mini-demos, videos, and customer feedback.
Document and communicate to team on strategy and plan for next 4 weeks and 3 months. Maintain rough schedule in Linear.
Write PRDs to assist engineering and design in developing larger projects.
Test new features as they come out and ensure they will be ready for customers. You advocate heavily for customer experience on speed, delight, and reliability.
This may be a good fit if you:
Have 2+ years of experience as a product manager building B2B software products.
Are an obessive Linear or Jira user. You are extremely organized and meticulous with processes and documentation.
You have worked as a PM at an early stage company (founding to Series B).
You are extremely positive and able to see potential solutions amidst competing signals. You can rally others to your solution and communicate effectively.
You are opinionated about processes but are flexible to always be iterating and changing.
Have a background as a software engineer prior to working as a product manager.
Nice to haves:
Experience with technically complex workflows for hardware engineers building satellites/drones etc. and have extreme empathy for our users.
Experience at a design-focused business intelligence SaaS company (example companies: Airtable, Confluence, Quip, Figma, Miro, Notion, Ramp, Rippling, Asana).
Familiarity, interest or background in aerospace & defense, manufacturing, engineering.
Interest in hiring and coaching other product managers and designers as we scale up.
What Stell brings to the table:
Flexibility and autonomy at work in a hybrid work environment - we have offices in LA and SF and value our in-person culture, meaning we expect the team to be on-site 3 days a week
Incredible customers with high stakes missions - you get to work directly with DOD offices, launch vehicle companies, and shipbuilders
Sizable equity as part of the compensation package- you become an owner of this company
Healthcare, vision, dental
Next Steps:
Email malory@stell-engineering.com with your resume and why you think Stell might be a good fit for you!