Senior Product Owner, Slingshot Aerospace

• 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

Desirable

• 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
• 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

• Medical / Dental / Vision
• Unlimited PTO
• Stock Options
• Remote / WFH Days
• Flexible Work Hours
• Snacks / Happy Hours / Team Lunches
• Prime office space in the heart of downtown Austin, TX and minutes from the beach in El Segundo, CA

Total funding: $115.1m

Despite years of research and exploration, we are still limited in what we know about space. Slingshot Aerospace is a company looking to deepen the understanding of space through advanced analytics, machine learning, computer vision and collaborative tools.