Director of Product Management

Role Description

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
• Industry expertise

Qualifications

• 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.
• Must be eligible to obtain or maintain US Government Security Clearance; preference given for active TS Clearance.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• Remote work opportunity.
• Salary: $210,000 - $240,000 (USD).
• Equity, Diversity & Inclusion initiatives.

Company Description

Slingshot Aerospace is 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 are 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.