Technical Project Manager

What Youll Do:

As Technical Project Manager at Slingshot Aerospace, you will be one of the core drivers of software planning, implementation, delivery, and management. Our products and services require both an eye for current organizational priorities as well as an aspirational and anticipating look towards our longterm strategy. As a member of the team, your role will ensure organization, clarity, focus, and efficacy in our Agile delivery teams.

Responsibilities:

• Executes all position responsibilities in alignment with Slingshots core values, mission, and purpose
• Communicate objectives, priorities, progress, accomplishments, changes, and impediments, clearly and consistently to remove blockers and avoid confusion across team members, stakeholders and management
• Partner, negotiate, and collaborate with subject matter experts, stakeholders and decision makers to continuously stay aligned with the current businessprogram objectives and priorities
• Help define and document the timeline of milestones, and identifyaddress dependencies pertaining to the deliverables
• Support product backlog grooming and ensure organization at all times
• Schedule and facilitate team meetings including the standard scrum rituals
• Provide metrics and reports on project progress regularly
• Enable scoping, planning, and estimation efforts
• Support staffing utilization management to advance productivity and worklife balance of the team members
• Identify, analyze, mitigate and proactively respond to project, financial and operational risks
• Help foster a work culture that recognizes and supports individual differences in workstyles, personalities, cultures and values to maximize teams potential
• Optimize the existing toolsprocesses or propose new ones to ensure effective execution of projects by distributed teams

• PreRequisites

  • Must be eligible to obtain or maintain US Government Security Clearance

  • Minimum Requirements

    • Bachelors degree in computer science, software engineering, or related technical field
    • 3 + Years of project management andor product owner experience with software product development
    • 2+ years Scrum Master or equivalent experience in a highagility environment
    • Experience and proficiency in managing projects under multiple SDLC methodologies, including agilescrum and waterfall
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
    • Strong organizational and negotiation skills to protect and support your teams productivity and focus
    • Proficiency and experience using Jira including advanced roadmaps and other development collaboration software tools
    • Superb analytical skills; adept at identifying and applying data to make smart decisions and influence outcomes
    • Experience delivering to market a software product from start to finish
    • Prior experience working with crossfunctional teams including UIUX Designers, Product Managers and Business Stakeholders associated with a technical project
    • Broad understanding of modern engineering methodologies, cloud software technologies and infrastructure techniques

    • Preferred Skills

      • Experience in the spaceaerospace industry
      • Prior experience crafting modern distributed cloudbased SaaSPaaS software, 12 Factor Application experience preferred
      • Demonstrated knowledge of 3D UI, gaming, PaaS, machine learning or other scientific software
      • EarlyMidstage startup experience

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        *These skills are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You dont have to meet every qualification listed if your skills are transferable and you meet the minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply.
        
        Location: Remote, United States

        Compensation: $95,000$153,000

        USbased 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.

        Internationallybased 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.