Senior Manager, Digital Launchpad Product Strategy
About The Position
Boeing Defense, Space and Security (BDS) has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Manager, Digital Launchpad Product Strategy – a strategic, action-oriented leader to drive product strategy and portfolio execution for Digital Launchpad, a portfolio of AI-enabled digital capabilities supporting the Boeing Defense business. This role will be a key position within the BDS Data Analytics & Digital Integration (DA&DI) organization in Hazelwood, MO, Arlington, VA, Huntsville, AL, Mesa, AZ, Ridley Park, PA, San Antonio, TX, Tukwila, WA. This role is responsible for driving the vision, roadmap, and execution across a diverse portfolio of mission-critical digital products that enable operational excellence and accelerate modernization. The Senior Manager will lead cross-functional teams to deliver integrated, scalable solutions aligned with business goals—bridging product management, engineering, and stakeholder engagement. This role will support end-to-end product lifecycle leadership—from stakeholder engagement and alignment, strategy definition to portfolio prioritization, development alignment, and deployment execution. This is a highly collaborative leadership role requiring both business acumen, development expertise, and operational rigor.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering discipline
- 10+ years’ experience in product management, product strategy, and roadmap planning for large digital product portfolios
- 10+ years’ experience leading software engineering
- 5+ years’ experience building and scaling distributed, cloud-based systems
- 5+ years’ experience with agile development
- 5+ years’ experience working with cross-functional and matrixed development teams, managing complex dependencies
- Ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship.
- An interim U.S. Top Secret Clearance Pre-Start and final U.S. Top Secret Clearance Post-Start is required.
Nice To Haves
- Ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on delivery leadership
- Experience in defense, aerospace, or regulated environments
- Experience with Palantir Foundry
- Experience with cloud platforms, software architecture, and enterprise security considerations
- Familiarity with AI/ML integration, data pipelines, and digital transformation initiatives
Responsibilities
- Drive the definition and continuous refinement of the Digital Launchpad product portfolio vision and strategy aligned to BDS business priorities and needs
- Identify high-impact digital capabilities addressing customer needs, future trends, and emerging technologies
- Facilitate portfolio-level prioritization based on value, risk, and resource allocation
- Partner with business leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to align on use cases, success criteria, and metrics for adoption and impact
- Establish KPIs and dashboards to provide transparency on portfolio performance and inform strategy adjustments
- Own holistic product lifecycle management for a broad set of digital solutions, ensuring cohesion and interoperability across platforms and applications
- Develop and maintain detailed execution roadmaps aligned with strategic business goals, balancing short-term deliverables with long-term innovation
- Facilitate prioritization of product features and enhancements based on business value, customer impact, and resource availability
- Drive continuous improvement through feedback loops from users, data, and operational metrics to evolve and scale products
- Champion scalability and maintainability of products by enforcing best practices in architecture, modular design, and documentation
- Maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners to surface needs, evangelize value, and gain commitment for product initiatives
- Partner with business and functional leadership on delivery cadence and roadmap execution with agile teams, balancing innovation with operational reliability
- Translate complex technical capabilities into clear business value stories and roadmaps
- Collaborate closely with software engineering, UX, data science, security, and operations teams to deliver integrated solutions that meet high standards for quality, security, and scalability
- Facilitate clear communication and prioritization across matrixed, managing dependencies and risk with a disciplined governance model
Benefits
- competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities
- health insurance
- flexible spending accounts
- health savings accounts
- retirement savings plans
- life and disability insurance programs
- programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
