Digantara is a leading Space Surveillance and Intelligence company focused on ensuring orbital safety and sustainability. With expertise in space-based detection, tracking, identification, and monitoring, Digantara provides comprehensive domain awareness across all regimes, enabling end-users to gain actionable intelligence on a single platform. At the core of its infrastructure lies a sophisticated integration of hardware and software capabilities aligned with the key principles of situational awareness: perception(data collection), comprehension (data processing), and prediction(analytics). This holistic approach empowers Digantara to monitor all Resident Space Objects(RSOs) in orbit, fostering comprehensive domain awareness.

Why Us?

Join a well-funded, fast-growing startup at the forefront of space technology. At Digantara, you’ll work on groundbreaking projects that ensure orbital safety and sustainability. We offer competitive incentives, a collaborative environment, and opportunities to innovate from day one.

Role Overview 

The Project Manager will lead the end-to-end execution of a new software product in Space Domain Awareness. The role spans project initiation, planning, delivery, and first customer deployment, coordinating a cross-functional team (product, software, design, algorithms, data, and business) to deliver a market-competitive, innovative product on time and within scope. 

Note: The candidate SHOULD have demonstrated leadership experience across the entire project lifecycle—from concept and design through development, release, and continuous improvement. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Develop a structured, phase-based project plan (discovery, design, build, test, deployment) with clear milestones, dependencies, and estimates. 

• Coordinate day-to-day work across different cross-functional teams. 

• Control scope in collaboration with the Product Owner/Manager; manage change requests and their impact on the timeline and resources. 

• Maintain a live risk and issue log, drive mitigation and escalation paths for technical, schedule, and integration risks. 

• Align with engineering and QA leads on test strategy (unit, integration, system, performance, and acceptance testing) 

• Plan and coordinate initial pilot deployment(s), including any offline or controlledenvironment installations 

Required Qualifications 

• 3+ years of end-to-end project management experience (concept → market launch → iteration). 

• Proven record of managing the full lifecycle of digital or data-driven projects (preferably in SaaS, cloud, analytics, or technology platforms). 

• Experience working with Smartsheet and other Agile/Scrum frameworks and tools (e.g. Jira, Asana). 

Technical Skills: 

• Working knowledge of testing, design, and engineering. Ability to understand the scope of technical effort required and identify bottlenecks. 

• Envisage and align all stakeholders on the scope. 

• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, testing methodologies, and UX processes. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Strong systems thinking mindset 

• Exposure to Space, Aerospace, or Data Intelligence domains (for SDA/technology-focused roles). 

• Project Management Certification (PMP, PRINCE2, etc.). 

• Experience with KPI dashboards and data platforms.  

Job Location: Hebbal, Bengaluru