Full-Time

Product Manager

Posted on 5/11/2026

Xona Space Systems

Xona Space Systems

51-200 employees

Delivers precision navigation and timing services

No salary listed

Montreal, QC, Canada

In Person

US Citizenship Required

Category
Product (1)
Required Skills
Product Management
Requirements
  • 3-5 years of product management or engineering experience, preferably in aerospace, defense, tech or telecommunications, involving hands-on GNSS work.
  • Technically fluent, with a strong understanding of GNSS, satellite navigation, and PNT technologies. Previous hands-on experience with receiver hardware, corrections services, navigation sensors, GIS, etc. is essential.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, with the confidence to navigate unstructured environments and make decisions with incomplete information.
  • The demonstrated ability to empathize and build strong relationships with customers & end users.
  • Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to rally support and build conviction around specific product initiatives across the organization.
  • Fluent in English and French, with the ability to support both local and global partners.
Responsibilities
  • Act as the primary technical point of contact for our early customers & users. You will own and manage early customer relationships, from initial onboarding to post-trial feedback. In parallel, you’ll develop repeatable processes, documentation, and tooling to scale customer consultations and ensure consistent, high-quality engagements.
  • Lead hands-on product demonstrations and trials. You’ll lead field trials for our PNT services, working closely with customers to plan, execute, and evaluate trial success. This is a high-impact function, central to demonstrating and delivering real-world value to our earliest users.
  • This role requires up to 20% travel.
  • Serve as chief customer advocate. You’ll lead customer discovery and speak on behalf of our diverse user base, from precision agriculture to financial markets to defence. You’ll ensure that the “voice of the customer” is heard in internal discussions, translating real-world needs into actionable product and engineering requirements.
  • Inform our product narrative. You’ll work with marketing and business development to craft compelling narratives around customer success and product capabilities.
  • Gather intel to inform the broader product roadmap, so that Pulsar evolves with customer considerations in mind.

Xona Space Systems provides precision navigation and timing (PNT) services using low Earth orbit satellites, delivering secure signals with strong interference and multipath mitigation. Its signals can augment existing GNSS or be used as a fully independent navigation solution, designed for simple, low-cost receivers. The system works by satellites transmitting PNT signals that users receive with inexpensive receivers and combine with GNSS or rely on Xona’s own solution for accurate positioning and timing. The goal is to deliver reliable, high-accuracy positioning and timing at scale for autonomous systems and other intelligent technologies across commercial, government, and defense sectors.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$336.3M

Headquarters

San Mateo, California

Founded

2019

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Raised $170M Series C in 2025 to deploy 258-satellite constellation rapidly.
  • Topcon and Septentrio agreements enable early 2027 customer coverage.
  • Burlingame factory manufactures more satellites weekly than US annually.

What critics are saying

  • SpaceX Starlink Direct to Cell bundles PNT in 2026, commoditizing Xona.
  • Advanced Navigation's $110M in June 2025 funds GPS-denied inertial tech.
  • SpaceX Transporter backlog delays Pulsar deployment past 2027 coverage.

What makes Xona Space Systems unique

  • Pulsar delivers 100x stronger LEO signals than GPS with cm-level accuracy.
  • Military-grade encryption and authentication resist jamming and spoofing.
  • Compatible with existing GNSS antennas and low-cost user equipment.

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Hybrid Work Options

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Headcount

6 month growth

-1%

1 year growth

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2 year growth

-7%
Business Wire
Mar 26th, 2026
Xona Closes $170M Series C to Lead Next Era of Global Navigation

Xona, building the next era of global positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) infrastructure, today announced $170 million Series C funding.

FinancialContent
Mar 26th, 2026
Xona raises $170M Series C to build commercial GPS upgrade with new California factory

Xona, a commercial space company building positioning, navigation and timing infrastructure, has raised $170 million in an oversubscribed Series C round led by Mohari Ventures Natural Capital. Participants include Craft Ventures, ICONIQ, Woven Capital, NGP Capital, Samsung Next and Hexagon. The company is developing Pulsar, a navigation service broadcast from low Earth orbit satellites with stronger signals and military-grade encryption, compatible with existing GPS devices. Over a dozen commercial receiver partners are tracking Pulsar signals, with early customers expected to benefit from coverage by 2027. The funding will accelerate constellation deployment and manufacturing scale-up at Xona's new Burlingame, California factory. At full production, the company aims to manufacture more navigation satellites weekly than the US currently produces annually, deploying its 258-satellite constellation within a few years.

Business Wire
Feb 12th, 2026
Topcon secures early access to Xona's Pulsar LEO satellite navigation service

Topcon Positioning Systems has signed a commercial agreement with Xona to secure early access to Pulsar, Xona's low Earth orbit satellite navigation constellation. The deal positions Topcon amongst Xona's first commercial customers preparing to integrate the technology into high-precision positioning workflows. Pulsar aims to provide centimetre-level accuracy and enhanced signal performance in challenging environments, with built-in protection against jamming and spoofing. Ron Oberlander, head of the Topcon Geomatics Platform, said the agreement reinforces the company's commitment to innovation and positions it for "a new era of high-precision performance possibilities" as LEO satellites come online. Topcon Positioning Systems provides precision technologies for construction, geomatics and agriculture markets. Xona describes itself as a navigational infrastructure company bringing centimetre-level positioning to any device globally.

UASweekly.com
Oct 8th, 2025
Septentrio, Xona MOU Accelerates LEO-PNT GNSS Integration for Resilient UAS

This agreement builds on Xona's recent successful launch of Pulsar-0, its first production class LEO PNT satellite.

AOL
Sep 24th, 2025
Aerospacelab Secures Galactic-Sized Funding: $110M Boosts Bid For Europe's New Satellite Constellation

Xona is developing the PULSAR high-performance network and navigation service, calling it the first satellite positioning, navigation and timing infrastructure in low Earth orbit.