Software Product Team Lead | Digital Ops

Job description

At BETA Technologies, we apply our intellectual curiosity, passion for aviation, and commitment to sustainability toward a shared mission of revolutionizing electric aviation. Regardless of the position one holds, each team member brings their talent and desire to positively impact the environment and lives of others in a refreshing, vibrant, and inclusive culture. BETA is looking for a highly motivated and knowledgeable Software Product Team Lead, responsible for product strategy, roadmap, and team leadership for our Engineering Tools and Libraries. In this role, you'll lead a team while defining the product vision for two critical areas. First, engineering tools and libraries that enable high-performance I/O, real-time data visualization and verification, and integration with third party software. Second, maintenance software that supports aircraft configuration, inspections, and flashing for both internal teams and eventually external customers. You'll partner closely with a technical lead who owns architecture and implementation, while you own the "what and why" - spending your time on deep customer discovery, ruthless prioritization, people development, and strategic technical decisions. This is a true hybrid role combining product ownership, people management, and some hands-on technical contribution. We're looking for someone who can earn the team's respect through technical credibility while excelling at product sense and people leadership. **How you will contribute to revolutionizing electric aviation:** - Define and own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Engineering Tools and Libraries, ensuring alignment with BETA's engineering and business objectives - Conduct continuous discovery with systems engineers, flight test engineers, maintainers, and other users to identify pain points and validate solutions - Represent team capabilities, needs, and objectives to all stakeholders by communicating with other leaders at BETA - Make ruthless prioritization decisions across competing demands, balancing quick wins with long-term strategic investments - Lead, coach, and develop the team through regular 1:1s, performance feedback, career development, and hiring - Partner closely with the technical lead on architecture and technical strategy, ensuring product and technical decisions are aligned - Contribute hands-on to technical work when valuable - reviewing code, prototyping solutions, or unblocking critical path items - Build strong relationships with internal customers across engineering, flight test, and maintenance organizations - Define success metrics and track adoption, impact, and value delivery across all tools and libraries **Minimum Qualifications:** - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience - 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 - Demonstrated product management skills including defining product strategy, conducting user research, and driving outcomes over outputs - Experience leading people, whether as a people manager, tech lead, or similar role with responsibility for others' growth and performance - Proven ability to build relationships with technical stakeholders and navigate competing priorities across multiple teams - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to articulate technical concepts and product strategy to diverse audiences - Experience building tools or software for technical users, whether internal teams or external customers - Track record of balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution and knowing when to do which - Ability to earn credibility and respect from technical teams through technical competence and product judgment - Comfortable with autonomy and accountability - ownership of outcomes, not just delivery of features **Above and Beyond Qualifications:** - Experience in aviation or aerospace, with understanding of aircraft systems and operations - Background working with real-time data systems, instrumentation, or embedded systems communication protocols (CAN, ARINC, etc.) - Strong expertise in both Python and C++, with experience building high-performance systems and user-facing tools in these languages - Previous experience building customer-facing products or tools that require packaging, distribution, and support at scale, including navigating open source licenses and compliance - Formal product management experience or training, particularly with technical tools or infrastructure products - Track record of successfully growing and scaling small teams (3-10 people) as scope and complexity increase - Experience with developer tools, data visualization systems, or configuration management software - Familiarity with the unique challenges of internal tooling - measuring impact, driving adoption, and demonstrating ROI to stakeholders **Physical Demands and Work Environment:** - Primarily office-based with potential hybrid work arrangements The wage listed here reflects our best faith estimate for this role. We pay competitively and base compensation on a variety of factors including skills, experience, industry background, and the evolving needs of the role. We remain committed to fair and equitable pay and we're happy to discuss during the interview process. Compensation $130,000—$150,000 USD ***Build electric airplanes with us!*** *BETA offers a competitive Total Compensation package designed to support you now and as you grow with us. This role includes both Restricted Stock Units and Performance Stock Units for all full-time team members, so everyone shares in our success. You’ll have access to onsite healthcare in Vermont, comprehensive medical coverage, dental and vision, short- and long-term disability, and paid parental leave. We also take care of the everyday details with daily lunch provided, and yes—flight lessons are part of the experience, along with a range of additional perks that make work here genuinely rewarding.* *We encourage all driven candidates to apply, even if they do not meet every listed qualification.* *We are an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner on race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law. BETA complies with all applicable federal, state and local non-discrimination laws and does not tolerate discrimination of any kind in our workplace.* *Employment offers are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check. BETA Technologies participates in E-Verify.*