Product Strategy and Ops Manager

maxar; Westminster (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Vantor is seeking a Product Strategy & Operations Manager to own Jira governance, operating model design, and cross-tool integration for product development tools and AI initiatives. You will partner with Product, Engineering, and IT to drive standardized workflows and trusted reporting.

The role focuses on improving data quality, delivery visibility, and executive-ready roadmaps while leading change management and exploring AI-enabled enhancements to planning and documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a related field.
• Experience architecting Jira at enterprise scale, including workflows, hierarchies, permissions, automation, dashboards, roadmaps, and reporting.
• Experience designing operating models, governance practices, or standardized workflows for large organizations.
• Strong understanding of the Product Management and Engineering lifecycle, including intake, planning, prioritization, and execution tracking.

Responsibilities

• Assess current Jira usage, team practices, workflows, data structures, reporting needs, and pain points across Product and Engineering.
• Architect and administer Jira at enterprise scale, including workflows, issue hierarchies, permissions, automation, dashboards, roadmaps, and reporting.
• Define and implement a flexible future-state Jira operating model that accommodates different ways of working while establishing governance and data-quality standards.
• Design connected solutions across Jira, Asana, Confluence, Google Workspace, and other product development and collaboration tools.
• Build and maintain automations that reduce manual work, improve handoffs, increase data consistency, and support intake, planning, status reporting, dependency management, and executive reviews.
• Establish consistent structures and processes for initiatives, milestones, epics, backlogs, roadmaps, releases, dependencies, documentation, and portfolio reporting.
• Develop trusted reporting and dashboards that improve visibility into delivery health, risks, dependencies, decisions, milestones, and execution status.
• Lead change-management activities, including training users and leaders and driving adoption of the future-state Jira design.
• Identify and implement AI-enabled solutions that improve requirements development, documentation, analysis, reporting, planning, and decision-making.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Product Operations, Engineering Operations, IT, and other stakeholders to continuously improve the operating model.

Skills

Stakeholder collaboration

Process design

Change management

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Jira

Asana

Confluence

Google Workspace

Job description

Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence, helping decision makers and operators navigate what's happening now and shape what's coming next. Vantor is a place for problem solvers, changemakers, and go-getters-where people are working together to help our customers see the world differently, and in doing so, be seen differently. Come be part of a mission, not just a job, where you can: Shape your own future, build the next big thing, and change the world.

To be eligible for this position, you must be a U.S. Person, defined as a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, Asylee, or Refugee.

Export Control/ITAR: Certain roles may be subject to U.S. export control laws, requiring U.S. person status as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).

Please review the job details below.

Product Strategy & Operations Manager, Product Development Tools & AI Transformation

• Assess current Jira usage, team practices, workflows, data structures, reporting needs, and pain points across Product and Engineering.
• Architect and administer Jira at enterprise scale, including workflows, issue hierarchies, permissions, automation, dashboards, roadmaps, and reporting.
• Define and implement a flexible future-state Jira operating model that accommodates different ways of working while establishing appropriate standards, governance, ownership, and data-quality expectations.
• Design connected solutions across Jira, Asana, Confluence, Google Workspace, and other product development and collaboration tools.
• Build and maintain automations that reduce manual work, improve handoffs, increase data consistency, and support intake, planning, status reporting, dependency management, and executive reviews.
• Establish consistent structures and processes for initiatives, milestones, epics, backlogs, roadmaps, releases, dependencies, documentation, and portfolio reporting.
• Develop trusted reporting and dashboards that improve visibility into delivery health, risks, dependencies, decisions, milestones, and overall execution status.
• Lead change-management activities, including assessing current practices, defining future-state processes, communicating the rationale for change, training users and leaders, addressing resistance, and driving sustained adoption.
• Identify and implement AI-enabled solutions that improve requirements development, documentation, analysis, reporting, planning, and decision-making.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Product Operations, Engineering Operations, IT, and other stakeholders to continuously improve the operating model and measure its effectiveness.

Success in this role will be measured by improved visibility into delivery health, risks, dependencies, milestones, and execution status; more consistent, accurate, and complete data; trusted executive- and board-level roadmaps and reporting; reduced manual effort; and demonstrated adoption of the future-state Jira design, workflows, governance standards, and reporting processes across the organization.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience, with significant experience in product operations, engineering operations, enterprise systems, business operations, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience architecting and administering Jira at enterprise scale, including workflows, issue hierarchies, permissions, automation, dashboards, roadmaps, and reporting.
• Experience designing operating models, governance practices, or standardized workflows for large organizations with varied team processes.
• Strong understanding of the Product Management and Engineering development lifecycle, including intake, planning, prioritization, execution tracking, release coordinatio