Senior Product Owner

Summary

Join Slingshot Aerospace as a Product Owner and become a core driver of software planning, implementation, delivery, and management. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including UI/UX Designers, Product Managers, Scientists, Engineers, and Business Stakeholders. Lead the Agile delivery process, setting priorities and refining product strategy. Ensure seamless team coordination and alignment with long-term business goals. The role requires strong communication, organizational, and analytical skills, along with experience in software product development and working with cross-functional teams. Slingshot Aerospace values intellectual agility, innovative solutions, leadership, and industry expertise.

Requirements

• Be eligible to obtain or maintain US Government Security Clearance
• Have 5+ Years of project management and/or product owner experience with software product development
• Have 3+ Experience with on shore and off shore product development in a high-agility environment
• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Possess strong organizational and negotiation skills to protect and support your team’s productivity and focus
• Have proficiency and experience using Jira including advanced roadmaps and other development collaboration software tools
• Possess superb analytical skills; be adept at identifying and applying data to make smart decisions and influence outcomes
• Have experience delivering to market a software product from start to finish
• Have prior experience working with cross-functional teams including UI/UX Designers, Product Managers, Scientist, Engineers and Business Stakeholders associated with a technical project
• Have a broad understanding of modern engineering methodologies, cloud software technologies and infrastructure techniques

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Have a Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, aerospace, engineering, or related technical field or experience
• Have experience in the defense tech or aerospace industry
• Possess technical skills: strong understanding of and experience with software technology and the space domain
• Possess business skills: acumen of business principles and decision making
• Possess communication skills: excellence in verbal and written communication to drive the most effective exchange with stakeholders, including customers, partners, and investors
• Possess 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
• Possess 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