Software Product Team Lead – Engineering Tools and Libraries

Description

• Build strong relationships with internal customers across engineering, flight test, and maintenance organizations
• Define and own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Engineering Tools and Libraries, ensuring alignment with BETA's engineering and business objectives
• Lead, coach, and develop the team through regular 1:1s, performance feedback, career development, and hiring
• Conduct continuous discovery with systems engineers, flight test engineers, maintainers, and other users to identify pain points and validate solutions
• Contribute hands-on to technical work when valuable - reviewing code, prototyping solutions, or unblocking critical path items
• Define success metrics and track adoption, impact, and value delivery across all tools and libraries
• Manage expectations and communicate product strategy, roadmap changes, and tradeoffs clearly to stakeholders and leadership
• Partner closely with the technical lead on architecture and technical strategy, ensuring product and technical decisions are aligned
• Make ruthless prioritization decisions across competing demands, balancing quick wins with long-term strategic investments

Requirements

• Experience leading people, whether as a people manager, tech lead, or similar role with responsibility for others' growth and performance
• Comfortable with autonomy and accountability - ownership of outcomes, not just delivery of features
• Demonstrated product management skills including defining product strategy, conducting user research, and driving outcomes over outputs
• Experience in aviation or aerospace, with understanding of aircraft systems and operations
• Track record of balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution and knowing when to do which
• Proven ability to build relationships with technical stakeholders and navigate competing priorities across multiple teams
• Background working with real-time data systems, instrumentation, or embedded systems communication protocols (CAN, ARINC, etc.)
• Ability to earn credibility and respect from technical teams through technical competence and product judgment
• Previous experience building customer-facing products or tools that require packaging, distribution, and support at scale, including navigating open source licenses and compliance
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Familiarity with the unique challenges of internal tooling - measuring impact, driving adoption, and demonstrating ROI to stakeholders
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of building tools, libraries, or infrastructure used by technical users, with proficiency in languages like Python, C++, or similar
• Strong expertise in both Python and C++, with experience building high-performance systems and user-facing tools in these languages
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to articulate technical concepts and product strategy to diverse audiences
• Formal product management experience or training, particularly with technical tools or infrastructure products
• Experience with developer tools, data visualization systems, or configuration management software
• Track record of successfully growing and scaling small teams (3-10 people) as scope and complexity increase
• Experience building tools or software for technical users, whether internal teams or external customers

Benefits

• Primarily office-based with potential hybrid work arrangements

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance