Technical Project Manager

Summary

Join Slingshot Aerospace as a Technical Project Manager and become a core driver of software planning, implementation, delivery, and management. You will ensure organization, clarity, focus, and efficacy in Agile delivery teams, aligning with the company's core values and long-term strategy. Collaborate with subject matter experts and stakeholders to maintain alignment with business objectives. Define project timelines, identify dependencies, and support backlog grooming. Facilitate team meetings, provide progress reports, and manage project risks. Foster a supportive work culture and optimize project execution processes. This role requires a Bachelor's degree in a related field, 3+ years of project management experience, and 2+ years of Scrum Master experience. Experience with various SDLC methodologies, strong communication and organizational skills, and proficiency in Jira are essential.

Requirements

• Must be eligible to obtain or maintain US Government Security Clearance
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or related technical field
• 3 + Years of project management and/or product owner experience with software product development
• 2+ years Scrum Master or equivalent experience in a high-agility environment
• Experience and proficiency in managing projects under multiple SDLC methodologies, including agile/scrum and waterfall
• 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 and Business Stakeholders associated with a technical project
• Broad understanding of modern engineering methodologies, cloud software technologies and infrastructure techniques

Responsibilities

• Executes all position responsibilities in alignment with Slingshot's core values, mission, and purpose
• 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 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

• Experience in the space/aerospace industry
• Prior experience crafting modern distributed cloud-based SaaS/PaaS software, 12 Factor Application experience preferred
• Demonstrated knowledge of 3D UI, gaming, PaaS, machine learning or other scientific software
• Early/Mid-stage startup experience

Benefits

• Remote work, flexible hours
• $95,000-$153,000