Technical Regulatory and Market Access Lead

About us

One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we’re on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We’re looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.

What you'll do

Viasat is building a next-generation NR-NTN platform designed to scale across multiple geographies, service models, and regulated mobility environments. As the platform expands across direct-to-device (D2D), automotive, unmanned systems, maritime, aviation, and other connected-use cases, product and launch decisions increasingly depend on a clear understanding of technical regulatory requirements, market-access pathways, service authorizations, device approval dependencies, and international coordination constraints.

We are seeking a Technical Regulatory & Market Access Lead to join our Platform Product Management team and translate complex regulatory, licensing, certification, and market-access requirements into actionable product, roadmap, launch, and geographic expansion inputs for the NR-NTN platform. This role sits at the intersection of product management, engineering, market access, regulatory affairs, spectrum strategy, ecosystem coordination, and cross-functional execution.

The ideal candidate combines an engineering-grounded understanding of telecommunications or satellite systems with practical experience in spectrum or regulatory affairs, global market access, international coordination, and product-impacting launch readiness. This person should be able to convert regulatory complexity into clear product implications, identify risks early, shape launch sequencing, and help the business make faster and better-informed decisions about where and how to launch and scale the platform.

This role is central to ensuring Viasat’s NR-NTN platform grows in a way that is technically sound, commercially bold, and executable across regulated global markets. By translating technical regulatory and market-access constraints into product decisions early, this role helps the business avoid late surprises, sequence launches more intelligently, accelerate partner readiness, and scale the platform with greater confidence across geographies and use cases.

The day-to-day

Global Regulatory Strategy & Market Access

• Assess country and regional launch readiness from a technical regulatory and market-access perspective, including service authorizations, landing rights, licensing conditions, device requirements, and other launch dependencies.
• Develop structured market-entry and launch-gating frameworks that inform prioritization of countries, operators, partners, and launch waves.
• Partner with Product, Regulatory Affairs, Legal, and commercial teams to evaluate regulatory feasibility alongside business opportunity and ecosystem readiness.
• Support global launch planning by identifying approval pathways, likely bottlenecks, critical milestones, and escalation points required to unlock deployment.

Technical Regulatory Translation for Product & Roadmap

• Identify, assess, and interpret regulatory, licensing, certification, and policy requirements that materially affect platform capabilities, service definitions, operational models, launch timing, and roadmap tradeoffs.
• Translate technical and regulatory constraints into product-facing requirements, assumptions, design guardrails, decision frameworks, and roadmap recommendations.
• Ensure regulatory and market-access considerations are incorporated early enough to shape roadmap planning and product design rather than emerging late as execution blockers.
• Provide practical guidance on where the platform can remain standardized globally versus where local, customer-specific, or segment-specific accommodations may be required.

Device, OEM, and Ecosystem Approval Support

• Partner with internal engineering teams and external ecosystem participants—including OEMs, device vendors, satellite partners, module vendors, and certification stakeholders—to support approval and launch readiness activities.
• Coordinate product-impacting inputs related to device type approval, equipment certification, labeling or service constraints, and country-specific launch requirements.
• Help define dependencies and decision points related to device readiness, service enablement, and ecosystem interoperability that affect commercial deployment timing.
• Support the translation of technical requirements into externally consumable guidance for partners involved in deploying or enabling the NR-NTN service.

International Coordination, Standards, and Policy Engagement

• Work with Government & Regulatory Affairs and other internal partners to support company positions in relevant international, regional, and national regulatory or standards forums.
• Supervise and interpret developments from bodies such as the ITU and regional preparatory or coordination groups, and translate them into platform or launch implications.
• Provide product and business teams with decision-oriented analysis of emerging regulatory changes, spectrum policy developments, and market-access trends.
• Help ensure Viasat has a forward-looking understanding of how evolving policy and standards activity may affect timing, capability assumptions, or partner strategy.

Cross-Functional Launch Execution & Risk Management

• Work across Product, Engineering, Test, Operations, Legal, Government & Regulatory Affairs, and commercial teams to ensure technical regulatory requirements are reflected in launch criteria, implementation plans, and readiness milestones.
• Develop clear views of key risks, decision points, mitigation options, and dependency management needs for leadership and launch partners.
• Establish a repeatable process for surfacing product-impacting regulatory implications during roadmap planning, design reviews, ecosystem integration, and launch preparation.
• Communicate sophisticated issues clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including product leadership and executives.

Segment-Specific Regulatory Considerations

• Assess product implications associated with regulated operating environments across D2D, automotive, unmanned systems, maritime, aviation, and other mobility or enterprise segments.
• Distinguish between platform-wide requirements and those specific to a geography, vertical, partner model, or deployment type.
• Support strategic decisions regarding feature packaging, launch sequencing, and segment-specific enablement based on regulatory and approval realities.

What you'll need

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, RF Engineering, or Communications Engineering
• Proven experience in technical regulatory affairs, spectrum management, regulatory engineering, market access, satellite or telecom licensing, or related roles in connectivity-focused industries.
• Strong ability to translate legal, regulatory, policy, or licensing requirements into practical product, launch, and operational implications.
• Experience working across engineering, legal, business, regulatory, and operational partners to incorporate compliance and approval requirements into delivery plans and launch-readiness decisions.
• Familiarity with international and regional regulatory processes relevant to telecommunications or satellite services, including experience with or exposure to ITU and/or regional coordination frameworks.
• Experience supporting or advising on service authorizations, landing rights, equipment or device approvals, certification requirements, or cross-border launch planning.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce concise, decision-oriented analyses and recommendations.
• Ability to operate effectively in environments with evolving requirements, multiple dependencies, and cross-functional decision-making.

What will help you on the job

• Experience with satellite communications, 4G/5G, NTN, D2D, regulated connectivity services, or spectrum-related product considerations.
• Experience at or supporting a telecommunications regulator, satellite operator, service provider, OEM, specialized advisory firm, or similar environment where regulatory execution directly affects deployment.
• Exposure to device type approval, certification workflows, or OEM-facing launch dependencies.
• Experience supporting international or multi-region product launches in regulated environments.
• Exposure to aviation, maritime, automotive, or unmanned systems regulatory considerations.
• Proven understanding of radio regulations, international coordination processes, and how spectrum or service constraints affect commercialization.

At Viasat, we consider many factors when it comes to compensation, including the scope of the position as well as your background and experience. Base pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Additional cash or stock incentives may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Learn more about Viasat’s comprehensive benefit offerings that are focused on your holistic health and wellness at https://careers.viasat.com/benefits. EEO Statement

Viasat is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, genetics, age, or veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic. If you would like to request an accommodation on the basis of disability for completing this on-line application, please click here .

Global Regulatory Strategy & Market Access

• Assess country and regional launch readiness from a technical regulatory and market-access perspective, including service authorizations, landing rights, licensing conditions, device requirements, and other launch dependencies.
• Develop structured market-entry and launch-gating frameworks that inform prioritization of countries, operators, partners, and launch waves.
• Partner with Product, Regulatory Affairs, Legal, and commercial teams to evaluate regulatory feasibility alongside business opportunity and ecosystem readiness.
• Support global launch planning by identifying approval pathways, likely bottlenecks, critical milestones, and escalation points required to unlock deployment.

Technical Regulatory Translation for Product & Roadmap

• Identify, assess, and interpret regulatory, licensing, certification, and policy requirements that materially affect platform capabilities, service definitions, operational models, launch timing, and roadmap tradeoffs.
• Translate technical and regulatory constraints into product-facing requirements, assumptions, design guardrails, decision frameworks, and roadmap recommendations.
• Ensure regulatory and market-access considerations are incorporated early enough to shape roadmap planning and product design rather than emerging late as execution blockers.
• Provide practical guidance on where the platform can remain standardized globally versus where local, customer-specific, or segment-specific accommodations may be required.

Device, OEM, and Ecosystem Approval Support

• Partner with internal engineering teams and external ecosystem participants-including OEMs, device vendors, satellite partners, module vendors, and certification stakeholders-to support approval and launch readiness activities.
• Coordinate product-impacting inputs related to device type approval, equipment certification, labeling or service constraints, and country-specific launch requirements.
• Help define dependencies and decision points related to device readiness, service enablement, and ecosystem interoperability that affect commercial deployment timing.
• Support the translation of technical requirements into externally consumable guidance for partners involved in deploying or enabling the NR-NTN service.

International Coordination, Standards, and Policy Engagement

• Work with Government & Regulatory Affairs and other internal partners to support company positions in relevant international, regional, and national regulatory or standards forums.
• Supervise and interpret developments from bodies such as the ITU and regional preparatory or coordination groups, and translate them into platform or launch implications.
• Provide product and business teams with decision-oriented analysis of emerging regulatory changes, spectrum policy developments, and market-access trends.
• Help ensure Viasat has a forward-looking understanding of how evolving policy and standards activity may affect timing, capability assumptions, or partner strategy.

Cross-Functional Launch Execution & Risk Management

• Work across Product, Engineering, Test, Operations, Legal, Government & Regulatory Affairs, and commercial teams to ensure technical regulatory requirements are reflected in launch criteria, implementation plans, and readiness milestones.
• Develop clear views of key risks, decision points, mitigation options, and dependency management needs for leadership and launch partners.
• Establish a repeatable process for surfacing product-impacting regulatory implications during roadmap planning, design reviews, ecosystem integration, and launch preparation.
• Communicate sophisticated issues clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including product leadership and executives.

Segment-Specific Regulatory Considerations

• Assess product implications associated with regulated operating environments across D2D, automotive, unmanned systems, maritime, aviation, and other mobility or enterprise segments.
• Distinguish between platform-wide requirements and those specific to a geography, vertical, partner model, or deployment type.
• Support strategic decisions regarding feature packaging, launch sequencing, and segment-specific enablement based on regulatory and approval realities.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, RF Engineering, or Communications Engineering
• Proven experience in technical regulatory affairs, spectrum management, regulatory engineering, market access, satellite or telecom licensing, or related roles in connectivity-focused industries.
• Strong ability to translate legal, regulatory, policy, or licensing requirements into practical product, launch, and operational implications.
• Experience working across engineering, legal, business, regulatory, and operational partners to incorporate compliance and approval requirements into delivery plans and launch-readiness decisions.
• Familiarity with international and regional regulatory processes relevant to telecommunications or satellite services, including experience with or exposure to ITU and/or regional coordination frameworks.
• Experience supporting or advising on service authorizations, landing rights, equipment or device approvals, certification requirements, or cross-border launch planning.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce concise, decision-oriented analyses and recommendations.
• Ability to operate effectively in environments with evolving requirements, multiple dependencies, and cross-functional decision-making.