We are seeking a Technical Business Development Manager to ensure compliant project delivery for commercial industry customers and partners. The successful candidate will be expected to work effectively with cross-functional teams in identifying, capturing, and delivering on customer programs and schedules. Xona's program manager must be able to maintain customer accounts and also generate new accounts, work closely with internal and external technical teams, and align these activities to Xona's overall business objectives.
What you'll do- Be the Customer Interface: Work closely with customers to match shared value propositions, build and synchronize schedules, technical requirements, and contract deliverables.
- Coordinate Across Teams: Facilitate communication across product, operations, and business teams to ensure deliverables are met.
- Interface with Leadership: Provide regular updates to the leadership team, escalating issues and proposing solutions to maintain program momentum.
- Contribute to Process Development: Collaborate with business and product team members to improve processes, tools, and reporting structures to scale with the company's growth.
- Thrive in a Startup Environment: Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where things can move and evolve rapidly. Ability to work autonomously in a small, dynamic team.
- Communicate: Excellent communication and organizational skills, ability to create and maintain project schedules.
Preferred Qualifications- 2-5 years of experience in program management, or a related role.
- Technical educational background, in engineering or a related field.
- Business development and/or sales experience.
- Knowledgeable of PNT systems, GNSS, and alternative navigation technologies.
- Well networked and knowledgeable of industrial timing and/or consumer IoT OEM companies.
- PMP, AGILE training or other relevant certifications.