Product Strategy and Ops Manager

Vantor Inc.; Westminster (CO); On-site; USD 98,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Mental health resources

Student loan repayment assistance

Adoption reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Vantor Inc. is seeking a Product Operations Manager to design and implement a Jira operating model that standardizes how Product Management and Engineering plan, execute, and report across the lifecycle.

You will connect Jira, Asana, Confluence, Google Workspace, and more, driving automation and AI to improve operations. The role emphasizes governance, data quality, and executive-level roadmapping, with responsibilities spanning change management, cross-functional collaboration, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience, with significant experience in product operations, engineering operations, enterprise systems, business operations, or a related field.

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 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.

Skills

Jira administration

Operating models design

Governance practices

Product lifecycle knowledge

Change management

Systems thinking

Communication

Stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Asana

Confluence

Google Workspace

Slack

Microsoft Teams

Salesforce

APIs & Webhooks

SQL

Python

JavaScript

Automation platforms (Zapier/Make/Power Automate)

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

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.

We're hiring a Product Operations Manager to design and implement a Jira operating model that improves how Product Management and Engineering plan, execute, and report on work across the product development lifecycle. The central challenge is supporting a large organization with varied and historical team practices while introducing enough standardization, governance, and data quality to enable reliable executive- and board-level roadmapping and reporting. This role will architect connected workflows across Jira, Asana, Confluence, Google Workspace, and other platforms while identifying opportunities to use automation and AI to improve product development operations.

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 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 coordination, and post-launch analysis.
• Demonstrated change-management experience, including assessing current practices, defining future-state processes, communicating change, training users and leaders, managing resistance, and driving sustained adoption.
• Strong systems-thinking, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-influence skills, with the ability to operate independently in an ambiguous environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating Jira with tools such as Asana, Confluence, Google Workspace, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Salesforce, or other enterprise applications.
• Familiarity with APIs, webhooks, SQL, Python, JavaScript, or automation platforms such as Zapier, Workato, Make, or Power Automate.
• Experience implementing AI-enabled workflows, LLM-based tools, prompt engineering, or AI assistants in a business or product environment.
• Experience developing portfolio-management processes, executive reporting, delivery metrics, dashboards, or board-level roadmaps.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale tool implementations, operating-model transformations, or complex organizational change initiatives.
• Experience working in a technical, software, aerospace, defense, or other complex product-development environment.

Pay transparency

In support of pay transparency at Vantor, we disclose salary ranges on all U.S. job postings. The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the salary range provided below and is determined based on job-related factors, including, but not limited to, the experience, qualifications, knowledge, skills, geographic work location, and market conditions. Candidates with the minimum necessary experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skillsets for the position should not expect to receive the upper end of the pay range.

• The base pay for this position within Colorado is: $98,000.00 - $163,000.00 annually.

Vantor offers a competitive total rewards package that goes beyond the standard, including a robust 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, and unique perks like student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement and pet insurance to support all aspects of your life. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.Vantor.com/careers/benefits

Pay Transparency:

* The base pay for this position within Colorado is: $98,000.00 - $130,000.00 - $143,000.00 annually.

For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range.

Benefits:

Vantor offers a competitive total rewards package that goes beyond the standard, including a robust 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, and unique perks like student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement and pet insurance to support all aspects of your life. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.Vantor.com/careers

Additionally, this position is incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved; the specific incentive plan and target amount will be determined based on the role and breadth of contributions.

EEO Policy:

Vantor is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace. We believe in fostering an environment where all team members feel respected, valued, and encouraged to share their ideas.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.