Job description

What You’ll Do:

As Product Owner at Slingshot Aerospace, you will be one of the core drivers of software planning, implementation, delivery, and management. You will work with our cross-functional teams, including UI/UX Designers, Product Managers, Scientist, Engineers and Business Stakeholders, to ensure rapid progress and development of our products. You will be the driving force behind our Agile delivery process, working closely with product managers to set priorities and helping to distill and refine the product strategy. Your role will ensure seamless coordination between teams and alignment of project execution with long-term business goals. Slingshot Aerospace cares deeply about our commitment to company values, mission, and purpose. The core competencies we will be looking to identify include: intellectual agility, ability to develop innovative solutions, leadership, performance-orientation, and industry expertise.

Responsibilities:

Communicate objectives, priorities, progress, accomplishments, changes, and impediments, clearly and consistently to remove blockers and avoid confusion across team members, stakeholders and management
Partner, negotiate, and collaborate with subject matter experts, stakeholders and decision makers to continuously stay aligned with the current business/program objectives and priorities
Help define and document the timeline of milestones, and identify/address dependencies pertaining to the deliverables
Support product backlog grooming and ensure organization at all times
Schedule and facilitate cross-functional team meetings including the standard scrum rituals
Provide metrics and reports on project progress regularly
Enable scoping, planning, and estimation efforts
Support staffing utilization management to advance productivity and work-life balance of the team members
Identify, analyze, mitigate and proactively respond to project, financial and operational risks
Help foster a work culture that recognizes and supports individual differences in work-styles, personalities, cultures and values to maximize team’s potential
Optimize the existing tools/processes or propose new ones to ensure effective execution of projects by distributed teams

Pre-Requisites

Must be eligible to obtain or maintain US Government Security Clearance

Minimum Requirements

5+ Years of project management and/or product owner experience with software product development
3+ Experience with on shore and off shore product development in a high-agility environment
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Strong organizational and negotiation skills to protect and support your team’s productivity and focus
Proficiency and experience using Jira including advanced roadmaps and other development collaboration software tools
Superb analytical skills; adept at identifying and applying data to make smart decisions and influence outcomes
Experience delivering to market a software product from start to finish
Prior experience working with cross-functional teams including UI/UX Designers, Product Managers, Scientist, Engineers and Business Stakeholders associated with a technical project
Broad understanding of modern engineering methodologies, cloud software technologies and infrastructure techniques

Preferred Skills

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, aerospace, engineering, or related technical field or experience
Experience in the defense tech or aerospace industry
Technical skills: strong understanding of and experience with software technology and the space domain
Business skills: acumen of business principles and decision making
Communication skills: excellence in verbal and written communication to drive the most effective exchange with stakeholders, including customers, partners, and investors
Leadership skills: strong ability to motivate and inspire others to build high performing teams. First hand experience with applied leadership frameworks and principles highly desired.
Analytical and problem solving skills: you are a skilled problem solver and are able to identify and resolve complex problems. You are a critical and creative thinker who questions the status quo and comes up with innovative solutions

*These skills are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You don’t have to meet every qualification listed- if your skills are transferable and you meet the minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply.

US-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following U.S. states: AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KS, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, MT, NV, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OR, RI, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, and WI. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other U.S. states at this time.

Internationally-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following locations: United Kingdom. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other countries at this time.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion are key to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences and backgrounds, who share a passion for creating a safer, more connected world. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also age, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, religion and many other parts of one’s identity. All of our employee’s points of view are key to our success, and we embrace individuality.

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