Technical Product Manager

Skyward
Skyward

Product, IT

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Posted on Aug 12, 2026
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Skyward Wildfire Technologies is building a first-of-its-kind platform for predicting and preventing lightning-ignited wildfires. Backed by more than C$12 million in seed funding, we are hiring a Technical Product Manager to own the roadmap for Vista, our machine learning-powered lightning and wildfire-risk forecasting platform.

This is not a conventional backlog management role. You will work across atmospheric science, machine learning, software, project delivery, and real world wildfire operations. Your job will be to turn complex research into reliable products and keep multidisciplinary teams moving on the unforgiving timelines of fire season.

The role

You will own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of Skyward's forecasting products. You will work closely with atmospheric scientists, machine learning engineers, software engineers, field operators, business development, and executive leadership. You will also engage directly with public sector and B2B partners to understand their workflows, operational requirements, and barriers to adoption.

This role combines product leadership with hands-on project management. You will be responsible for translating technical work into clear plans, coordinating dependencies, managing timelines and risks, and ensuring that important work gets shipped.

What you'll do

Own the product strategy and roadmap for Vista
Translate scientific and machine learning research into product requirements, project plans, milestones, and release schedules
Coordinate work across science, engineering, software, operations, and commercial teams
Manage scope, timelines, dependencies, risks, and competing priorities
Pressure test model outputs, validation approaches, product assumptions, and operational trade-offs
Lead product discovery with wildfire agencies and prospective customers
Help turn early pilots and customer-specific deployments into a repeatable, scalable product
Define the integrations, APIs, reporting, reliability, and onboarding capabilities required by enterprise customers
Communicate progress, risks, roadmap decisions, and trade-offs to leadership and external partners
Maintain focus and momentum as priorities shift

What we're looking for

You are a deeply technical, high-agency product leader who is also an effective project manager. You do not need to be an atmospheric scientist or machine learning engineer, but you must be technical enough to earn their trust, ask difficult questions, understand the answers, and make sound decisions.

Strong candidates will bring
Product management experience in an early-stage or fast-moving startup environment
Hands-on project management experience coordinating complex, multidisciplinary technical work
A track record of shipping data intensive, machine learning, or technically complex products
Experience owning a roadmap from problem definition through launch, adoption, and iteration
The ability to build clear plans, manage timelines and risks, and hold teams accountable without creating unnecessary bureaucracy
Technical fluency across machine learning models, data pipelines, APIs, software architecture, and systems integrations
Experience translating ambiguous scientific, technical, or customer requirements into executable work
B2B product experience, ideally with enterprise, regulated, infrastructure, or asset intensive customers
Experience conducting customer discovery and distinguishing scalable market needs from one-off feature requests
Strong written and verbal communication
Comfort operating with broad ownership in an early-stage company

Experience in wildfire, weather, geospatial technology, utilities, forestry, infrastructure, aviation, emergency management, or decision support software would be valuable, but is not required.

What this role is not

This is not a role for someone who wants to manage tickets from a distance. It is not purely product management or project management. You will be expected to understand the science, technology, users, and commercial context behind the product — and to help the team make difficult trade-offs and ship.

What success looks like

In your first several months
Develop a detailed understanding of Vista, its models, users, and operational applications
Build strong working relationships across science, engineering, operations, and business development
Establish a clear roadmap and delivery process tied to measurable technical and customer outcomes
Identify the most important gaps between current research capabilities and dependable operational products
Clarify the highest-value use cases across priority markets
Over time
Help make Vista an indispensable operational tool for Skyward's partners
Improve the reliability, usability, and scalability of Skyward's forecasting products
Shorten the path from scientific research to production
Help turn successful pilots into repeatable products and durable customer relationships
Build the product foundation required to serve new regions and industries

Location and working model

This is a full-time role. We strongly prefer someone who can work in a hybrid capacity in Vancouver, British Columbia. Exceptional candidates elsewhere in Canada will also be considered, particularly those able to collaborate across Pacific time zone working hours. Some travel may be required.

How to apply

Email careers@skywardwildfire.com with:

Your résumé
A short note explaining why this role interests you
An example of a technically complex product or project you helped take from ambiguity to production

Please use the subject line: Technical Product Manager — [Your Name]

Skyward Wildfire Technologies is committed to building a team with diverse experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds. We encourage qualified candidates to apply even when their experience does not match every item listed above.

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