Associate Director, Hosting Product Manager

RTX • Farmington, CT

45d • Hybrid

About The Position

RTX Corporation is an Aerospace and Defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 185,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, VA. Position Overview: The Associate Director, Hosting Product Manager is responsible for shaping the long-term vision, product management direction, and transformation agenda for hosting services. This role defines hosting product roadmaps that deliver modernization, efficiency, and resiliency for enterprise hosting platforms. Acting as both a product manager and strategy change agent, the leader partners with architecture, engineering, operations, and security to deliver scalable, secure, and future-ready hosting services. The incumbent will leverage technical abilities and expertise, to identify and define large transformational programs and initiatives across infrastructure teams that scale the enterprise datacenter footprint efficiently. Develop hosting product strategies and roadmaps to drive improvements in reliability and achieve cost and operational efficiencies, reduce deployment times, improvements in hosting power utilization, and service placement optimizations.

Requirements

• Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 12 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 10 years experience
• 5+ years experience in developing 3-5 year strategic hosting roadmaps including public/private/hybrid cloud implementations (e.g., AWS, Azure, Datacenter)
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access certain necessary systems.

Nice To Haves

• Proven experience leading hosting transformations to a product centric delivery model
• Demonstrated ability to manage budgets, contracts, and vendor performance effectively
• Experience working in Aerospace & Defense industry
• Deep expertise in public (AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud), private, and hybrid cloud environments
• Strong strategic thinking with experience creating and executing multi-year technology roadmaps
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale cloud transformation programs
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, able to influence at all organizational levels.

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year strategy for hosting services with a focus on innovation, resiliency, and efficiency.
• Oversee the full product lifecycle for hosting services, from requirements and design to delivery and continuous improvement, ensuring alignment with customer and organizational goals.
• Manage and own the hosting roadmap that represents a 2-3 year set of features and capabilities to build and operate based on customer needs, business needs, and market trends.
• Works with product owners/engineering to build features for the hosting services organization.
• Ensures translation of feature requirements into delivered engineering products.
• Works with operations and customer success to ensure features are maintained, observed, and that customers are onboarded to leverage the services.
• Serve as the primary liaison between IT leadership, business units, operations teams, and external vendors/partners communicating strategy, trade-offs, and progress, and securing alignment across functions and business units.
• Partner with enterprise architecture, IT infrastructure, cyber, data and application teams to design cohesive, future-proof hosting environments that meet enterprise requirements
• Influence and align stakeholders at all levels, including executive leadership, regional teams, and external partners/vendors
• Monitor industry trends, competitive landscape, and emerging technologies to ensure organizational leadership in cloud innovation
• Communicate strategy for enterprise hosting continuous improvement which includes executive level and detailed project briefs and status updates
• Drive new project evaluations, technology reviews, challenge proposals and build consensus
• Successfully maintain confidentiality and carry out assignments that are sensitive in nature

Benefits

• Whether you’re just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a robust total rewards package with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs.
• Some of the benefits we offer include parental (including paternal) leave, flexible work schedules, achievement awards, educational assistance and child/adult backup care.
• Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays.
• Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees