Director of Product Strategy, Design, Innovation

Slingshot Aerospace

Director of Product Strategy, Design & Innovation leading product strategy at Slingshot Aerospace. Driving product opportunities, customer insights, and market dynamics for innovation.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timeRemote • Arizona, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $210,000 - $240,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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 the ability to present strategic recommendations, tradeoffs, and opportunity assessments to senior leadership.
Has previously held a Senior Manager or Director-level role.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

product strategyinnovationdesign strategyproduct managementconcept testingopportunity assessmentcontinuous improvementcustomer insight synthesismarket dynamics analysisemerging technologies assessment

Soft Skills

leadershipteam managementexecutive communicationstrategic recommendationsprioritizationoperating rhythmsaccountabilitysynthesis of informationpresentation skillscollaboration