What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Product Owner position at Slingshot Aerospace?
What You'll Do :
As Product Owner at Slingshot Aerospace, you will be one of the core drivers of software planning, implementation, delivery, and management. You will work with our cross-functional teams, including UI / UX Designers, Product Managers, Scientist, Engineers and Business Stakeholders, to ensure rapid progress and development of our products. You will be the driving force behind our Agile delivery process, working closely with product managers to set priorities and helping to distill and refine the product strategy. Your role will ensure seamless coordination between teams and alignment of project execution with long-term business goals. 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.
Responsibilities :
- 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 business / program objectives and priorities
- Help define and document the timeline of milestones, and identify / address dependencies pertaining to the deliverables
- Support product backlog grooming and ensure organization at all times
- Schedule and facilitate cross-functional 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 work-life 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 work-styles, personalities, cultures and values to maximize team's potential
- Optimize the existing tools / processes or propose new ones to ensure effective execution of projects by distributed teams
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Preferred Skills
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.
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 age, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, religion and many other parts of one's identity. All of our employee's points of view are key to our success, and we embrace individuality.
