Technical Project Manager, Slingshot Aerospace

• Must be eligible to obtain or maintain US Government Security Clearance
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or related technical field
• 3 + Years of project management and/or product owner experience with software product development
• 3+ years Scrum Master or equivalent experience in a high-agility environment
• Experience and proficiency in managing projects under multiple SDLC methodologies, including agile/scrum and waterfall
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong organizational and negotiation skills to protect and support your team's 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 cross-functional teams including UI/UX Designers, Product Managers and Business Stakeholders associated with a technical project
• Broad understanding of modern engineering methodologies, cloud software technologies and infrastructure techniques
• These skills are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You don't have to meet every qualification listed- if your skills are transferable and you meet the minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply

Desirable

• As Technical Project Manager at Slingshot Aerospace, you will be one of the core drivers of software planning, implementation, delivery, and managemen
• Our products and services require both an eye for current organizational priorities as well as an aspirational and anticipating look towards our long-term strategy
• As a member of the team, your role will ensure organization, clarity, focus, and efficacy in our Agile delivery teams
• Executes all position responsibilities in alignment with Slingshot's 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 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 team meetings including the standard scrum rituals
• Define and 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