Product Manager

About the role

Sphinx builds software to solve complex national security problems in Space. Founded by engineers and technologists with deep experience across commercial and defense technology, we aim to provide modern, secure solutions for the US Government.

Responsibilities

• Advocate for the user to improve product quality, security, and performance that have a particular impact on your team and others.
• Manage projects simultaneously and execute day-to-day tasks to ensure timely delivery.
• Communicate progress and ensure alignment with stakeholders and engineers.
• Support the architecture of backend services as part of the platform ecosystem with an emphasis on automation, testing, and security.
• Create high-quality technical documentation for processes and software architecture for Sphinx software.
• Owning the product backlogs, significantly contributing to the software roadmap, and aligning engineers on the most important problems to solve and why.
• Influence the space ecosystem through software demonstrations, relationships, marketing documentation, etc.
• Scale the services and solve interesting Space Communication challenges.

Requirements

• 5+ years of working on or leading software development product teams to ship functional software.
• Exceptional communication skills, working with the government and mission partner end-users to design solutions to their needs.
• Demonstrable experience translating between highly technical customer requirements and software development objectives.
• Strong technical writing ability.
• Strong knowledge in cloud-based systems (AWS, Gitlab, Slack, etc).
• Experience with Jira or similar project management tools.
• Experience with Figma, and or other design tools.
• The ability to learn quickly and thrive in a fast-paced ambiguous environment.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful, permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Skills

• Software development leadership.
• Customer relationship management.
• Technical writing and documentation.
• Cloud system management (AWS, Gitlab, Slack).
• Project management tools (Jira).
• Design tools (Figma).

Benefits

• Competitive salary between $133,000 - $160,000 base salary.
• Meaningful equity ownership.
• Profit sharing.
• Employer 401(k) contribution.
• 100% employer covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.

Pay

• $133,000 - $160,000 base salary.

Schedule

• This is a hybrid role based in Colorado Springs, CO, with a combination of onsite and remote work.

Location

• Colorado Springs, CO

Clearance Eligibility

• This position requires eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.