Senior Product Manager - Platform (UK)

What You'll Do

The Senior Product Manager - Platform is a strategic individual contributor who owns the foundational systems, APIs, and developer-facing services that power Slingshot's platform. This role bridges infrastructure, data architecture, integration strategy, and developer experience-ensuring our systems are scalable, performant, and well-aligned with product and customer needs.

This PM works directly with engineering and data science teams to map backend capabilities, improve data integration workflows, and document platform architecture. They will also own the developer API experience-making it seamless to discover, access, and integrate with Slingshot's data and capabilities. Additionally, they serve as the product liaison for backend and frontend development performance, helping ensure the entire system meets industry standards for quality and responsiveness.

We're looking for a systems-minded product leader who brings strong technical fluency, architecture awareness, and a proactive approach to building a world-class platform.

Slingshot Aerospace cares deeply about our commitment to company values, mission, and purpose. The core competencies we will be looking to identify include : intellectual agility, ability to develop innovative solutions, leadership, performance-orientation, and industry expertise.

Responsibilities

Strategy & System Design

• Lead product strategy for platform services, APIs, and infrastructure powering customer-facing and internal tools.
• Partner with engineering and data science to understand system architecture, data flows, and platform integration points.
• Maintain clear, accessible documentation of system architecture, service capabilities, and integration readiness.
• Support platform planning through capability mapping, dependency identification, and service audits.

Developer Experience & Integration Enablement

Execution & Lifecycle Ownership

Instrumentation & Performance Metrics

Cross-functional Collaboration & Influence

Pre-Requisites

Minimum Requirements

Preferred Skills

Location : Remote, UK Preferred (Open to offshore talent in EU time zones)

Classification : Full-Time Exempt (professional exemption)

Compensation Range : 70,000 - 90,000 (GBP)

US-based Candidates : we are currently only able to hire residents of the following U.S. states : AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KS, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, MT, NV, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OR, RI, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, and WI. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other U.S. states at this time.

Internationally-based Candidates : we are currently only able to hire residents of the following locations : United Kingdom. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other countries at this time.

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. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also national origin, citizenship, sex, color, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic that is part of one's identity. All of our employees' points of view are key to our success, and we embrace individuality.