Senior Technical Product Manager
FTAI owns and maintains commercial jet engines with a focus on the Maintenance, Repair and Exchange (MRE) of CFM56 and V2500 engines. FTAI’s proprietary portfolio of products, including The Module Factory and a joint venture to distribute engine PMA, helps make CFM56 and V2500 engine maintenance simpler, more cost-effective, significantly faster, and more environmentally friendly. Additionally, FTAI owns and leases jet aircraft which often facilitates the acquisition of engines at attractive prices. FTAI invests in aviation assets and aerospace products that generate strong and stable cash flows with the potential for earnings growth and asset appreciation. FTAI operates globally and has offices in New York, Miami, Montreal, California, Singapore, Dubai, United Kingdom, and Ireland.
About the role
FTAI Aviation is seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager to own the development of FTAI's key operational and supply technology products end-to-end. This role involves understanding how the operation truly works, defining the future state, shipping the solution, and measuring impact. The role is based in FTAI’s global HQ in New York City, with an expected 5 days in the office. Some travel to other locations will be required for product design and launches.
Responsibilities
- Learn the business and the operation in detail from the floor up
- Define the outcomes of each process, distinct from how it may be done today
- Co-create the phased target-state solution with stakeholders and earn alignment across operations, engineering, and leadership
- Translate the agreed solution into user stories and technical requirements developers can act on
- Project-manage development, testing, and rollout — owning scope, timeline, risks, and cross-functional handoffs
- Define success metrics up front and verify the solution moved them
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree
- 7+ years of product or program management experience
- Experience with process improvement/redesign in ambiguous environments
- Experience owning a product or program roadmap end-to-end — definition through delivery
- Experience writing user stories to solve complex problems
- Experience in an operations, manufacturing, industrial, or supply-chain environment
- Data fluency — defining metrics, reading dashboards, and validating outcomes
Skills
- Lean, Six Sigma, or similar
- Experience building technical requirements and contributing to engineering discussions on technical design tradeoffs for security, latency, scalability
- Experience with Palantir Foundry
- Experience delivering software in a regulated or asset-heavy operating environment
- Manufacturing, aviation, aerospace, or MRO domain experience
- Experience understanding data pipelines and APIs
- Basic React/TypeScript understanding and principles of front-end design, UI & UX