Portfolio Sr. Manager
About Boom Supersonic
Boom Supersonic is a Denver-based company redefining commercial flight by bringing supersonic flight back to the skies with Overture. This historic airliner is designed and committed to industry-leading standards of speed, safety, and sustainability. Boom’s vision is to bring families, businesses, and cultures closer together through supersonic travel and make the world dramatically more accessible.
Boom is the first commercial airplane manufacturer to commit to a carbon-neutral flight test program and to build sustainability into its entire aircraft program. The company is backed by world-class investors and has 30 aircraft on pre-order. Founded in 2014, Boom has assembled a team of over 150 full-time employees who have made contributions to over 220 air and spacecraft programs.
Are you passionate about building the supersonic future? Come join the team and help us make aviation history!
Role Overview:
As a member of the Commercial operations team, you will be shaping the future of Boom by working directly with senior leaders on critical projects that will further our mission of helping to make the world dramatically more accessible. This team drives operational rigor and harmony, with a focus on cross-functional alignment, exceptional stakeholder management, and managing high priority initiatives that are critical to the company’s success. We focus on aligning the company’s goals and objectives with effective day-to-day operations and help incubate innovative ideas into action that drives impact for the company.
We’re looking for an individual that thrives on making organizations become more effective and scale excellence. In this role, you will be expected to have a deep understanding of how the organization operates and partner closely with stakeholders to create cross-company alignment.
Responsibilities:
- Create and manage a foundation to track functional priorities, monthly progress against each and visuals that enable discussions and alignment
- Design a portfolio roadmap and maintain ongoing to serve as a source of truth for functional priorities
- Build and activate simple, repeatable, scalable approaches that can flex to business needs and ensure information flows well throughout the organization
- Design and execute initiatives in projects that contribute to long-term operational excellence, ensuring key projects have clear success measures and operation plans
- Project manage select high priority initiatives
- Proactively identify areas within the organization to scale operational excellence
- Predict resources needed to reach objectives and influence resources in an effective and efficient manner
- Prepare and update the portfolio budget, based on evolving scope and resource requirements
- Develop and own central communications and tools which allow consistent updates to all relevant stakeholders about strategy, adjustments, outstanding questions and real time progress
- Measure portfolio performance to identify areas for improvement
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- A minimum of a Bachelor's degree
- At least 7 years of project management and related experience
- Ability to manage multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously, on time and on budget
- Distinguished written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a collaborative relationship building style
- Exceptional stakeholder management and executive presentation skills
- Adept at cutting through complex issues to find quick wins and make progress
- High judgement and self-awareness
- Proven track record for driving alignment and communication cross-functionally within a company
- Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices
- Quick and high-quality analysis and presentation creation using Microsoft and/or Google suites, and Keynote
- Experience seeing projects through the full life cycle
- Bias for action, and propensity for resourcefulness and problem-solving
Compensation:
- Salary Range for this position is $140,000-$195,000 and is based upon years of experience that is commensurate with the level of the position
- Robust equity program with significant upside potential.
- Open PTO.
To conform to U.S. Government aerospace technology export regulations (ITAR and EAR), applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about ITAR here (https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/?id=ddtc_public_portal_itar_landing)
Boom is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
Want to build a faster future? Come join Boom.