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Director of Product Strategy, Design & Innovation

18 hours, 54 minutes ago
United States, United Kingdom
Full-time
Executive
Design Lead
Product Management
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Slingshot Aerospace

Slingshot Aerospace

Slingshot.space is a cutting-edge technology company that specializes in providing innovative solutions for space exploration, satellite communication, and aerospace engineering. We offer a range of products and services including satellite launch serv...

Diversified Telecommunication Services
51-250
Founded 2017
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Description

  • Lead product strategy and innovation to identify future product opportunities, growth areas, and differentiated market positions.
  • 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 efforts to improve existing product experiences and validate new concepts with a focus 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.
  • Collaborate with Product Management, Research, Science, AI, Engineering, and Leadership on roadmap recommendations and new product initiatives.
  • Influence senior stakeholders using strategic narratives, opportunity sizing, customer evidence, and experiment findings.
  • Provide monthly readouts on innovation progress, emerging opportunities, and experiment findings, including prototype links.
  • Manage, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary design team and set priorities, operating rhythms, and accountability for deliverables.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in product strategy, product management, design strategy, innovation, research, or related product leadership roles.
  • Demonstrated experience leading product strategy or innovation functions in complex technical, data, AI, aerospace, defense, or mission-critical environments.
  • Experience managing and developing teams, including setting priorities, operating rhythms, and accountability mechanisms.
  • Strong ability to synthesize customer needs, market dynamics, emerging technologies, competitive signals, and business goals into clear product direction.
  • Excellent executive communication skills, including presenting strategic recommendations, tradeoffs, and opportunity assessments to senior leadership.
  • Previous experience in a Senior Manager or Director-level role.
  • Experience with AI, space domain awareness, data products, geospatial intelligence, defense technology, or other mission-critical software (preferred).
  • Background leading design, research, or concept-validation programs in addition to product strategy (preferred).
  • Experience building repeatable innovation processes, opportunity assessment frameworks, and roadmap governance models (preferred).
  • Familiarity working with government, defense, intelligence, or commercial aerospace stakeholders (preferred).
  • Must be based in an approved U.S. state or the United Kingdom, depending on location.
  • Role is remote.

Benefits

  • Salary range of $210,000–$240,000 USD.
  • Remote work location.
  • Equal opportunity employer with a strong commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

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