Product Manager

October 21

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Sphinx Defense

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Security • Software • Space

Sphinx Defense is a technology company focused on engineering software solutions for space and national security. Founded by experienced engineers and technologists, the company aims to modernize outdated and insecure technologies used by service members in the United States and its allies. Sphinx Defense emphasizes secure, automated, intuitive, and functional software to solve complex national security challenges. The team is distributed across the U. S. , offering competitive benefits and a mission-focused culture.

2 - 10 employees

🔐 Security

📋 Description

• Advocating between customers and engineers for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have a particular impact on your team and others. • Managing projects simultaneously and executing day-to-day tasks to ensure timely delivery. • Communicating progress and ensuring alignment with important stakeholders and engineers. • Supporting architecture of backend services as part of the platform ecosystem with an emphasis on automation, testing, and security. • Creating high-quality technical documentation for processes and software architecture for Sphinx software. • Owning the product backlogs, significantly contributing to the software roadmap, and aligning engineers on the most important problems to solve and why. • Influencing the space ecosystem through software demonstrations, relationships, marketing documentation, etc. • Scaling the services and solving interesting Space Communication challenges.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of working on or leading software development product teams to ship functional software • Exceptional communication skills, working with the government and mission partner end-users to design solutions to their needs • Demonstrable experience translating between highly technical customer requirements and software development objectives • Strong technical writing ability • Strong knowledge in cloud-based systems (AWS, Gitlab, Slack, etc) • Have experience with Figma, and or other design tools • Made enough mistakes and booked enough wins to know what not to build and what good looks like. • The ability to learn quickly and thrive in a fast-paced ambiguous environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• Compensation includes competitive salary • Meaningful equity ownership • Profit sharing • Employer 401(k) contribution • 100% employer covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents