Senior Product Owner

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.

• 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

• Must be eligible to obtain or maintain US Government Security Clearance

• 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

• 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.