Technical Product Manager

FTAI Aviation

$120K — $150K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in relevant field
  • 7+ years of product or program management experience
  • Proven track record of end-to-end product ownership
  • Skilled in writing user stories and technical requirements
  • Knowledge of data pipeline and API design on platforms like dbt/AirFlow
  • Basic understanding of front-end technologies, specifically React and TypeScript
  • Experience in operations, manufacturing, aviation, or supply chain environments
  • Experience in process improvement initiatives
  • Strong data analytical skills for defining and validating metrics

Responsibilities

  • Learn the operation from the ground up and understand its intricacies
  • Define the ultimate objectives of operational processes
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to create a phased target-state solution
  • Translate solutions into actionable user stories and technical requirements
  • Manage project lifecycle, including scope, timeline, risks, and communications
  • Establish success metrics from the outset and assess effectiveness

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Opportunities for professional development and training
  • Dynamic work environment with a focus on innovation
  • Possibility of a hybrid work arrangement
Full Job Description
JOB OVERVIEW

FTAI Aviation is seeking an experienced Technical Product Manager to own the development of FTAI's key operational technology products end to end. This ranges from understanding how the operation truly works, to defining what each process is for, to shipping the solution and measuring impact.

Responsibilities:

  • Learn the business and the operation in detail from the floor up
  • Define the true aim of each process, distinct from how it may be done today
  • Co-create the phased target-state solution with stakeholders and earn alignment across operations, engineering, and leadership
  • Translate the agreed solution into user stories and technical requirements developers can act on
  • Project-manage development, testing, and rollout - owning scope, timeline, risks, and cross-functional handoffs
  • Define success metrics up front and verify the solution moved them


Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree
  • 7+ years of product or program management experience
  • Experience owning a product or program roadmap end to end - definition through delivery
  • Experience writing user stories and technical requirements while contributing to engineering discussions on technical design tradeoffs for security, latency, scalability
  • Experience designing data pipelines, APIs on common platforms like dbt/AirFlow or similar
  • Basic React/TypeScript understanding and principles of front-end design, UI & UX
  • Hands-on experience in an operations, manufacturing, aviation/aerospace, industrial, or supply-chain environment
  • Demonstrated process-improvement experience
  • Data fluency - defining metrics, reading dashboards, and validating outcomes


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Lean, Six Sigma, or comparable process-improvement certification
  • Experience delivering software in a regulated or asset-heavy operating environment
  • Manufacturing, Aviation, aerospace, or MRO domain experience
  • Experience with Palantir Foundry

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