Slingshot Aerospace

• Own the end-to-end systems architecture for Slingshot's mission software and data ecosystem. • Define architecture principles, technical standards, integration patterns, and design review processes across Slingshot Portal. • Ensure Slingshot's architecture supports secure deployment models, interoperability with customer mission systems, and integration of proprietary, customer, government, and third-party data sources. • Partner with product and engineering leaders to align architecture roadmaps with customer mission needs. • Strengthen, scale, and lead Slingshot's mission assurance function for software-intensive and hardware-enabled space operations capabilities. • Mature repeatable assurance processes for requirements management, design control, safety and risk analysis, verification and validation, configuration management, technical review governance. • Define the assurance approach for AI/ML-enabled space operations capabilities. • Establish bi-directional traceability from customer needs and mission threads to requirements, architecture, data and model dependencies, verification evidence, operational procedures, and product releases.

• Take ownership of end-to-end research studies, including scoping, participant recruitment, methodology selection, facilitation, and analysis, across the full product lifecycle. • Frame research questions that address product uncertainties and business goals in collaboration with product, design, engineering, and growth. • Contribute to roadmap planning by surfacing user needs, pain points, and opportunity areas grounded in data. • Conduct mixed-methods research (e.g., interviews, usability tests, surveys, field studies, A/B testing, etc.) and synthesize findings into clear, actionable insights. • Support product teams with rapid evaluative testing, continuous discovery practices, and post-launch learnings. • Partner with data analysts and designers to triangulate findings and ensure insights reflect user behavior, attitudes, and context. • Translate insights into frameworks, personas, journey maps, or recommendations that support product decisions and roadmap prioritization. • Present findings clearly and persuasively to cross-functional teams, fostering a shared understanding of user needs. • Work closely with design, product, engineering, marketing, and customer success teams to ensure user insights are integrated into design and business processes.

• Drive the design vision for your product area(s), connecting long-term user needs with near-term execution plans. • Collaborate closely with product and engineering leads to shape roadmaps, clarify goals, and define success metrics. • Translate abstract, ambiguous challenges into clear design problems and informed recommendations. • Own the full design lifecycle—from discovery and wireframes to detailed interaction specs and production-ready assets. • Craft innovative experiences that balance usability, technical feasibility, and domain-specific complexity (e.g., spatial, data-rich, or mission-critical environments). • Lead and contribute to complex feature and system-level design initiatives, ensuring cohesion and scalability across the platform. • Conduct and integrate research, testing, and data insights into every phase of the design process. • Partner with UX researchers, engineers, and domain experts to ground decisions in evidence and real-world behavior. • Communicate insights through storytelling, frameworks, and documentation that foster empathy and alignment. • Contribute to the evolution of Slingshot’s design system, UI patterns, and visual standards across platforms and teams. • Apply a strong understanding of hierarchy, typography, motion, and layout to create intuitive and expressive interfaces. • Maintain a high bar for craft, consistency, and accessibility. • Collaborate fluidly with engineering, product, program, growth, sales, and marketing teams to align on vision and execution. • Serve as a thought partner to product managers and technical leads; influence trade-offs and strategic choices. • Champion a user-centered approach across the company, advocating for design best practices and systemic thinking.

• Lead and develop a distributed team of orbital analysts responsible for analyzing GSN data and delivering actionable operational insights • Support contracts regarding the provision of GSN data and orbital analyst support as well as contracts involving analysis at space operations centers (e.g., the 18th Space Defense Squadron) • Engage regularly with government, civil, and commercial customers to provide mission updates, operational support, and technical guidance • Review and validate analysis products and customer deliverables to ensure operational accuracy, consistency, and quality • Serve as Slingshot’s Technical Point of Contact (TPOC) on GSN data sale contracts • Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on operational efficiency, mission readiness, and customer satisfaction • Manage analyst workloads, team priorities, operational metrics, and mission timelines to support successful execution of customer requirements • Support surge or after-hours operational activities during critical mission events when required • Oversee workflows supporting space domain awareness, sensor tasking, orbital event assessment, conjunction analysis, and customer reporting • Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development activities for the Orbital Analyst team • Execute responsibilities in alignment with Slingshot’s mission, values, ethical standards, and operational culture. • Perform other duties as assigned (to be less than 10% of the responsibilities listed above)

• Lead product strategy and innovation to identify future product opportunities, growth areas, and differentiated market positions. • Continuously assess emerging technologies, scientific developments, customer needs, market shifts, and competitor activity to inform product direction. • Build and maintain an innovation roadmap that translates validated opportunities into broader product strategy and future roadmap recommendations. • Lead design to elevate existing product experiences and validate new concepts, with a strong emphasis on future-state innovation. • Establish a repeatable process for opportunity assessment, concept testing, prioritization, and continuous improvement across design and research. • Partner with research and design teams to turn customer insight, market evidence, and usability learnings into actionable product concepts.

• Build strategic product partnerships that support growth, expand product value, and strengthen competitive positioning • Align partnership opportunities with product objectives and customer needs • Structure partnerships to drive measurable strategic and commercial value • Lead marketplace strategy to improve engagement and differentiate ecosystem value • Partner with cross-functional teams to launch partnerships effectively

• The Director of Product Management leads the strategy, development, and execution of the company’s core platform capabilities. • This role oversees the Product Management team, drives core roadmap priorities, and partners closely with Research, Product Strategy & Innovation, Engineering, Design, and Leadership. • Ensures the core platform is robust, scalable, and positioned to support both existing product needs and future innovation. • Act as the product program lead for the core platform, coordinating cross-functional dependencies, delivery planning, execution rhythms, and alignment across teams. • Manage and develop the Product Management team, setting priorities, operating rhythms, and accountability across the core product organization.

• We’re looking for a strategic, systems-oriented Senior Product Manager to lead the development of our integrated experiences. • Identify what matters most: the right workflows, right customers, and right capabilities, then partner with cross-functional teams to bring those to life in our integrated platform. • Act as the connective tissue between growth, pricing, platform, and customer experience, ensuring that the most critical user workflows are clearly defined, competitive in the market, and scalable across customer segments. • Building a team of sharp, creative people who love solving hard problems. We value curiosity over ego, initiative over waiting for permission, and people who genuinely care about doing great work.

• Develop backend services and APIs using C#/.NET Core. • Build secure, responsive, and maintainable frontend applications using React. • Implement 3D visualization and data-driven UI experiences using Three.js. • Design and optimize SQL Server schemas, indexing strategies, and aggregation pipelines. • Implement Redis-based caching and signaling systems. • Build RAG pipelines, vector search integrations, and retrieval-optimized AI services. • Develop agentic AI workflows using LangChain, AutoGen, DSPy, or similar frameworks. • Apply Secure SDLC practices across backend, frontend, infrastructure, and CI/CD workflows. • Troubleshoot distributed-system performance and scalability issues. • Deploy and maintain applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS services. • Collaborate with product, security, and data teams to define engineering standards and deliver high-quality systems.

• Architect and oversee backend service ecosystems built with .NET (C#/.NET Core) and Python. • Define front-end architecture patterns and guide implementation of scalable React applications.Lead 3D visualization and UI architecture using Three.js for interactive, data‑driven interfaces. • Lead database architecture for SQL Server: schema design, indexing strategies, performance optimization. • Architect caching, messaging, and high-speed data layers using Redis or similar in-memory systems. • Design and govern RAG architectures, vector search integrations, and retrieval‑optimized AI solutions. • Define patterns and frameworks for Agentic AI workflows (LangChain, AutoGen, DSPy, etc.). • Establish Secure SDLC, architecture governance, code quality, and CI/CD standards. • Conduct architecture reviews, perform threat modeling, and ensure compliance with best practices. • Guide resolution of complex production, system, and performance challenges across distributed systems. • Drive cloud-native architecture on AWS, including containerization, Kubernetes, networking, and security. • Partner with product, security, and engineering leadership to align architecture with business goals.