Job Description:Be at the center of delivering complex, mission-critical programs that bring advanced technology into real-world operation. In this role, you will drive planning, coordination, and execution across cross-functional teams-ensuring seamless demonstrations, efficient logistics, and sustained customer success. Working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, you'll turn strategy into action, keep teams aligned, and play a key role in delivering high-impact solutions on time and at scale.
What you'll do:Demo Project Manager Tasks:
- Generate demonstration plans
- Conduct demonstration event logistics planning
- Coordinate with Go-To-Market leads and customers
- Establish and maintain project action plans and risk metrics
- Generate and maintain project schedules
- Coordinate participation of personnel for demonstration events
- Establish and lead a consistent cadence of well-organized, well-facilitated, and effective meetings, including driving all preparation and follow up activities
- Manage project budgets
- Manage and organize customer correspondence
- Coordinate import/export regulatory compliance - ITAR and EAR
- Facilitate fuel availability and procurement
- Review, understand, and comply with proposals and contracts
- Drive subcontractor performance as applicable
Assistant Program Manager for Logistics Tasks:
- Act as the key point of contact for the sustainment portion of programs
- Drive program execution of Engineering Change Order (ECO) implementation tasks in the company's Product Lifecycle Management Software
- Ensure Service Bulletins are released and disseminated to customers, and track their incorporation into fielded hardware.
- Provide continuous, real-time readiness tracking of customer hardware (aircraft, payloads, ground support equipment, etc)
- Serve as the programmatic point of contact for customer requested warranty and non-warranty repairs, to include RMAs to vendors.
- Serve as Deployed Operations Field Service Representatives primary point of contact within the program office
- Represent customer programs in managing Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortage issues.
- Maintain real-time awareness of customer hardware inventory levels, both within Shield AI's facilities as well as at customer sites. Coordinate replenishment at intervals appropriate to customer usage rates.
- Ensure all customers have access to the most up-to-date technical manuals and bulletins applicable to their hardware configuration.
- Provide customer feedback to internal teams regarding maintainability and sustainability issues.
General Tasks:
- Deliver proven, exceptional, and reliable performance in support of customer/end-user's mission through flawless project management.
- Effectively collaborate, motivate, and lead relevant stakeholders to successfully deliver early, under budget, and with exceptional technical performance.
- Complete critical path analyses including the evaluation of potential means to accelerate the pace or mitigate identified risks
- Identify potential bottlenecks or delays in projects and drive efforts to ensure projects stay on schedule
- Partner with leadership to guide prioritization of projects and utilization of resources
- Support an environment where accountability and program execution excellence are core.
- Report directly to Shield AI's Senior Director of V-BAT Program Management
Required qualifications:- 4+ years of Project Management experience, including managing schedules, budgets, resources, and events
- Experience with scheduling tools such as Microsoft Project or Smartsheet
- Significant experience and excellent skills with Microsoft Office suite
- Excellent skills in leadership, time management, organization, and team management.
- Theoretical and practical project management knowledge
- Application of project management techniques and tools
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally and domestically as needed
- A demonstrated record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to a high standard, and being kind to others
Preferred qualifications:- Experience in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles
- Familiarity with aviation product delivery, maintenance, sustainment, and field support
- Undergraduate degree in engineering or business
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
$88,000 - $130,000 a year
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Full-time regular employee offer package:
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Temporary employee offer package:
Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.
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