Open Position

DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
EDGE OPERATING ENVIRONMENT

Reports to: Head of Product
Location: Hybrid/Remote
Salary range: 140k-220k 

 

ABOUT LYNX

Lynx Software Technologies provides foundational, open architecture software solutions for customers in the aerospace and defense end-markets. Our mission is to better enable our customers to design, develop, deploy, and maintain robust software solutions which promote and enhance national security via the delivery of differentiated IP, unique development tools and infrastructure, and complex software engineering services. Lynx’s MOSA.ic platform enables safe, cyber-secure, high-performance, and high-reliability computing for applications requiring the strictest standards for certification and compliance. Since 1988, customers have trusted Lynx’s IP and expertise to enable mixed criticality systems to be harnessed to deliver deterministic, real-time, and secure performance and intelligent decision-making at the mission critical edge.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

To learn more about Lynx Software Technologies, Inc. please go to www.lynx.com.

KEYS TO SUCCESS

You will manage the Edge Software portfolio of the company consisting of hypervisor-based platform, market specific RTOS (e.g., DO 178), Cyber protection, Linux and the set of tooling enabling the development and deployment of the company product into the customer equipment. Additionally, the candidate will take the lead in creating an aggressive go-to market plan and developing a product road map. You will be highly collaborative with all functions in the company such as engineering, technology office, sales, finance.


RESPONSIBILITIES

The Director of Product Management is a new position reporting to the head of Product. The right candidate will strengthen our competitive positioning across tiers from features, tools, power, performance, benchmarking, and cost perspectives, and use those to ensure that we have the best-in-class roadmap for our products. Responsibilities include:

  • Assessing trends and market requirements to translate into product roadmap
  • Execute through engineering the commit product roadmap 
  • Continuously evaluating the competitive landscape to ensure proper positioning
  • Creating business case and ROI analysis to support the roadmap investments
  • Create the product requirement, backlog for the engineering organization to deliver on time, on feature and on budget
  • Supporting the marketing team to create marketing and sales enablement material
  • Presenting the Product Portfolio at various customer facing, industry conferences events and partner meetings
  • Working with the sales organization in supporting growth in the top strategic and lighthouse accounts
  • Operating as a key member of the senior management team with a growth mindset, entrepreneurial spirit and sense of ownership and accountability

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • 15+ years of experience in Product Management for embedded or edge systems such as RTOS, development tools, middleware, Linux, software development pipeline
  • Mastering the creation of PRD, user stories, market sizing
  • Success in defining and releasing into the market at least 3 products in the past 5 years
  • Knowledge in A&D is preferable
  • Extremely comfortable to engage with customer at all levels from engineer to senior business level positions
  • Great interpersonal communication skills and great speaker to represent the company during events
  • Real competence in gathering market and competitive information and assimilating this into the company portfolio
  • Hand on with ability to move easily between product, services, marketing, strategy, and technical discussions
  • Natural influence management skills with the ability to establish strong, collaborative working relationships with several stakeholder
  • Able to work with ITAR information when needed
  • BSEE/CS or equivalent required, MBA a plus
  • 25 % Travel required 

BENEFITS

  • Medical / Dental / Vision coverage
  • Flexible PTO
  • Flexible schedule
  • 401k
  • 401k Match
  • Career growth and development opportunities
  • HSA/FSA
  • Commuter Benefits


Salary ranges are applicable to location, experience, skills, and education level among other internal factors. Lynx Software Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We base our employment decisions entirely on business needs, job requirements, and qualifications—We have zero tolerance for any kind of discrimination, and we are looking for candidates who share those values. Here at Lynx, it is our mission to create and sustain a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, no matter what an employee's: Ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical ability, religion, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, national origin, veteran status thus providing a positive work employee experience.

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