Director of Product Management

About the role

At Slingshot Aerospace, we’re on a mission to make space safer and more secure for everyone. Our work directly impacts global security, disaster response, climate monitoring, and the critical infrastructure that connects our world. We’re a team of builders, thinkers, and problem-solvers who believe that the next generation of space operations will be powered by better data and smarter software. We move fast, we’re not afraid to fail, and we believe the best ideas can come from anywhere—whether you’re in engineering, sales, product, or operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, development, and execution of the company’s core platform capabilities, ensuring the foundation of the product is scalable, reliable, and aligned to business and customer needs.
• Oversee the Product Management team, driving core roadmap priorities, and partnering closely with Research, Product Strategy & Innovation, Engineering, Design, and Leadership to deliver the platform capabilities that support current execution and future growth.
• Serve as the product program lead for the core platform, coordinating cross-functional dependencies, delivery planning, execution rhythms, and alignment across teams.
• Act as the product program lead for the core platform, driving cross-functional decision-making to prioritize platform enhancements, improve execution, and strengthen product quality.
• Establish a clear and repeatable approach for roadmap planning, product delivery, and ongoing platform evolution.
• Manage and develop the Product Management team, setting priorities, operating rhythms, and accountability across the core product organization.
• Coach product managers on roadmap ownership, customer discovery, requirements definition, stakeholder alignment, and delivery discipline.
• Create clear mechanisms for prioritization, product reviews, roadmap communication, and platform performance readouts.
• Partner closely with Research, Product Strategy & Innovation, Engineering, Design, and Leadership to align platform investment with broader product and company strategy.
• Translate technical tradeoffs and platform investments into clear customer, business, and operational outcomes.
• Provide monthly readouts of platform success, performance, delivery progress, and key roadmap risks.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in product management, platform product management, product operations, technical program leadership, or related leadership roles.
• Proven success defining and delivering platform roadmaps that balance customer value, technical scalability, reliability, and business priorities.
• Strong execution discipline, including experience coordinating cross-functional dependencies, development planning, delivery rhythms, and stakeholder alignment.
• Excellent communication and decision-making skills, with the ability to influence engineering, design, research, leadership, and customer-facing teams.
• Has previously held a Senior Manager or Director-level role.

Qualifications

• Must be eligible to obtain or maintain US Government Security Clearance; preference given for active TS Clearance.
• Experience with B2B SaaS, data platforms, AI-enabled products, geospatial products, defense technology, or mission-critical software.
• Experience serving as a product program lead or operating in a hybrid product management and program execution capacity.
• Familiarity with platform architecture concepts, APIs, data pipelines, analytics, infrastructure, or enterprise-grade product capabilities.
• Prior exposure to government, defense, intelligence, aerospace, or other highly regulated customer environments.

Skills

• Intellectual agility
• Ability to develop innovative solutions
• Leverage industry expertise
• Leadership
• Performance-orientation

Benefits

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 national origin, citizenship, sex, color, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic that is part of one’s identity. All of our employees’ points of view are key to our success, and we embrace individuality.

Pay

$210,000 - $240,000 (USD)

Schedule

Remote