Meet Slingshot
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. If you want to work on something that truly matters, with people who care deeply about the impact we're making and help shape the future of an industry that's just getting started, you're in the right place.
What You’ll Be Launching
The Director of Product Management leads 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. This role oversees the Product Management team, drives core roadmap priorities, and partners closely with Research, Product Strategy & Innovation, Engineering, Design, and Leadership to deliver the platform capabilities that support current execution and future growth.
In addition to product leadership, this role serves as the product program lead for the core platform - driving cross-functional planning, delivery coordination with development, prioritization, and execution discipline across teams. We are looking for a leader who can balance strategic product judgment with strong execution rigor and deep cross-functional partnership.
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.
Your Mission (Should you choose to accept it)
Core Platform Strategy & Roadmap
- Lead product strategy and execution for the core platform, ensuring foundational capabilities support company goals, customer needs, and product growth.
- Define and maintain the core platform roadmap, balancing customer needs, technical priorities, scalability, reliability, and business value.
- Ensure the core platform is robust, scalable, and positioned to support both existing product needs and future innovation.
Product Program Leadership & Execution
- Act as the product program lead for the core platform, coordinating cross-functional dependencies, delivery planning, execution rhythms, and alignment across teams.
- Drive 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.
Team Leadership & Product Operating Model
- 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.
Cross-functional Collaboration & Influence
- 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.
Pre-flight Checklist
- 4+ years of experience in product management, platform product management, product operations, technical program leadership, or related leadership roles.
- Demonstrated experience leading product teams and managing product managers in a technical product environment.
- 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.
Bonus Cargo
- 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.
Location: Remote
Salary: $210,000 - $240,000 (USD)
US-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following U.S. states: AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KS, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, MT, NV, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OR, RI, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, and WI. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other U.S. states at this time.
Internationally-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following locations: United Kingdom. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other countries at this time.
US-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following U.S. states: AL, AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, RI, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV We are unable to consider candidates residing in other U.S. states at this time.
Internationally-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following locations: United Kingdom. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other countries at this time.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion are key to our success. 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.
Skills Required
- 4+ years of experience in product management or related leadership roles
- Experience leading product teams and managing product managers in a technical product environment
- Success defining and delivering platform roadmaps balancing customer value and business priorities
- Experience coordinating cross-functional dependencies and stakeholder alignment
- Excellent communication and decision-making skills
- Previously held a Senior Manager or Director-level role
Slingshot Aerospace Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Slingshot Aerospace and has not been reviewed or approved by Slingshot Aerospace.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive for key roles, especially in engineering and sales, supported by publicly posted ranges and role descriptions. Descriptions of compensation characterize base pay as fair to above average.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with materials emphasizing robust medical, dental, and vision options. Plan quality is portrayed as strong and cost-effective.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible or unlimited PTO is prominently offered alongside a remote-first setup. Usage is generally seen as flexible, subject to team norms.
Slingshot Aerospace Insights
What We Do
Slingshot Aerospace builds world-class space simulation and analytics solutions. We are driven by our vision of accelerating space sustainability to create a safer, more connected world. Space is increasingly complex due to the exponential growth of global launch activity, the proliferation of new data sources, and the ever-growing body of new satellites and debris. Organizations are making mission-critical decisions in this high-risk environment and they need the right information at the right time. Slingshot Aerospace empowers government and commercial space organizations to better design, manage, and safeguard their assets, as well as mitigate risks, to ensure safe and reliable operations for all space-faring users. We are achieving this by bringing the space domain into the digital environment and fusing together data from different sources to provide a full, dynamic orbital picture. In doing so, Slingshot Aerospace customers can make decisions at the speed of relevance and achieve clarity in complex environments.
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