[Hiring] Product Owner of Manufacturing Application Development @Voyager Technologies, Inc.

Role Description

The Manager leads a team of high-output AI empowered developers that owns Voyager-built manufacturing applications for their full life: roadmap, enhancement, release, operation, security, and user support. The manager is accountable for delivering a steady stream of working improvements to manufacturing and engineering users, keeping both applications reliable and secure in Azure GCC High, and growing a team that can sustain them without blockers.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role. The manager sets priorities with business owners, shapes architecture and engineering standards, reviews and approves changes, and steps into design, code review, and incident response as needed — while hiring, coaching, and managing the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Team leadership:
  • Build and run the team. Hire, onboard, coach, and evaluate developers; set clear ownership for each application and component; maintain a healthy workload and a sustainable on-call rotation.
  • Remove single points of failure. Ensure design decisions, runbooks, and operational knowledge are documented and shared, so that any capable team member can ship, deploy, and recover either application.
  • Set the developer culture. Establish and enforce expectations for code review, testing, documentation, and honest reporting of what has and has not been verified.
• Roadmap and stakeholder management:
  • Own the roadmap for both applications. Work with manufacturing, engineering, quality, program management, and finance leaders to gather needs, resolve conflicting priorities, and publish a clear, sequenced backlog.
  • Balance enhancement against run work. Allocate capacity across new features, defect repair, technical debt, security fixes, and operational toil for two products with different user bases and risk profiles.
  • Run pilots and adoption. Plan and manage pilot programs and rollouts, user training, release communications, and feedback loops, including Vector's move from pilot to a production environment with real program data.
  • Set expectations. Give executives and business owners accurate status, risks, and trade-offs; give advance notice of user-interface and workflow changes.
• Delivery and engineering quality:
  • Run a predictable delivery process. Plan work in small, reviewable increments with automated tests, continuous integration, protected branches, and an approval-gated release path.
  • Govern architecture. Keep each application's data model, interfaces, and configuration approach coherent as new sites, lines of business, and integrations are added; approve significant design decisions and record them.
  • Govern AI-assisted development. Both applications are built with heavy use of AI coding assistants. Define how AI-generated changes are specified, reviewed by a human, independently cross-checked where warranted, and tested before release, and keep accountability with named people.
• Operations, reliability, and cost:
  • Own service health. Maintain monitoring, alerting, backup and restore testing, and disaster-recovery readiness (including failover drills); lead incident response and post-incident reviews.
  • Manage the platform. Oversee infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines and self-hosted runners, certificate and secret rotation, dependency updates, and cloud cost in Azure Government.
  • Support users. Operate an intake and triage process for questions and defects, with targets for response and resolution.
• Security, compliance, and data governance:
  • Protect controlled data. Ensure both applications handle export-controlled and other sensitive data in line with company policy, Cybersecurity requirements, and customer obligations; maintain least-privilege access, audit trails, and role-based access tied to Okta groups.
  • Close findings. Work with Cybersecurity, IT Infrastructure, and Quality to remediate security and audit findings, and to document the evidence that gates a move to production use.
  • Control integrations. Own the secure operation of integrations with NetSuite, Okta, and other systems, including credential custody and read/write scope decisions.

Qualifications

• Required:
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading or managing an engineering team.
  • Track record delivering and operating line-of-business web applications with a relational database, single sign-on, and role-based access.
  • Working understanding of modern code languages (i.e. Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js, React) and infrastructure such as SQL Server/Azure SQL, and automated testing.
  • Hands-on experience with Azure (App Service, networking, Key Vault, monitoring), infrastructure as code (Bicep or similar), and CI/CD (GitHub Actions or similar).
  • Ability to translate business needs from non-technical stakeholders into prioritized, testable engineering work.
  • Strong written communication; able to produce design records, runbooks, and status reports that others can rely on.
  • Eligibility to work with export-controlled information (U.S. person).
• Preferred:
  • Experience with manufacturing or engineering systems such as PLM, MES, ERP, quality management, or resource and capacity planning.
  • Familiarity with aerospace or defense manufacturing processes (BOM management, configuration and change control, travelers, nonconformance).
  • Experience with Azure Government or GCC High, Okta administration, and NetSuite integration.
  • Experience governing the use of AI coding assistants or building features on Azure OpenAI or similar services.
  • Experience operating under security frameworks such as NIST SP 800-171, CMMC, or FedRAMP-aligned environments.
  • Experience with disaster-recovery design and rehearsal.

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off (FTO), empowering employees to take the time they need to recharge and maintain a healthy work-life balance.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their families, with a significant portion of premiums covered by the company and many benefits paid at 100% for employees.
• Flexible, affordable gym memberships with 12,700+ options nationwide, including 24 Hour Fitness, EoS Fitness, Crunch Fitness, Anytime Fitness, Blink Fitness, Chuze Fitness, and more! No long-term contracts and FREE on-demand workout videos before you enroll.
• 401(k) retirement plan with a 50% company match on contributions up to 8%, supporting long-term financial security.
• Company wellness programs that support physical and mental well-being.
• Additional voluntary benefits and employee support resources.
• The opportunity to work alongside a highly talented team in an innovative, mission-driven environment.

Company Description

Voyager is an innovative space, defense, and national security technology company committed to advancing and delivering transformative, mission-critical solutions. We tackle the most complex challenges to unlock new frontiers for human progress, fortify national security, and protect critical assets to lead in the race for technological and operational superiority from ground to space.