Senior Director, Radar Technical Program Manager
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Senior technical program leader coordinating LeoLabs’ radar systems, hardware, manufacturing, and deployment programs. Building integrated execution plans and scalable technical program management across aerospace and space-security operations.
Responsibilities:
- Lead multidisciplinary radar, hardware, manufacturing, deployment, and operational-readiness programs from definition through completion
- Translate product requirements, technical objectives, customer commitments, and operational needs into program definitions with clear scope, success criteria, milestones, interfaces, dependencies, and decision points
- Drive execution through ambiguity, evolving requirements, incomplete information, and aggressive schedules while maintaining accountability for program outcomes
- Coordinate execution across Radar Systems, Hardware Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Global Infrastructure, Radar Operations, Product, and customer-facing Program Management
- Own the integrated technical program baseline and cross-functional commitments for scope, schedule, cost, readiness, and risk
- Establish change control, drive escalation and recovery, and ensure decisions are made by appropriate functional authority
- Build schedules reflecting engineering maturity, critical paths, long-lead materials, supplier and site dependencies, resource contention, and schedule risk
- Lead technical and deployment readiness reviews across the product lifecycle
- Establish review entry and exit criteria covering technical and deployment maturity, test evidence, configuration status, documentation, and residual risk
- Manage technical risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, changes, and decisions; drive root-cause analysis and recovery planning
- Maintain traceability from contractual milestones and customer acceptance criteria to technical baselines, verification requirements, evidence, and delivery plans
- Coordinate transition of radar and hardware products from engineering development into repeatable production
- Integrate design release, materials, DfX, tooling, test equipment, calibration, quality, labor, capacity, yield, and cost targets into production plans
- Partner with Supply Chain on supplier capability, lead times, material availability, obsolescence, and alternate-source readiness
- Coordinate technical resolution of issues during prototype, pilot, and production builds
- Integrate site development, regulatory dependencies, logistics, installation, system integration, acceptance testing, and operational readiness into deployment schedules
- Define handoff criteria for Radar Operations and Maintenance teams and establish feedback loops for sustaining-engineering priorities
- Provide forward-looking program reviews to the SVP and extended leadership team
- Present technical, schedule, cost, and operational consequences of major decisions and identify required leadership support
- Maintain a portfolio-level view of milestones, dependencies, risks, and capacity constraints
- Partner with business operations and FP&A to connect scope and schedule changes to budget, cost, and margin impacts
- Ensure external commitments are backed by credible technical execution plans
- Build and lead a scalable technical program management function
- Initially lead high-priority initiatives and build and lead a small team of technically credible program leaders as the portfolio grows
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, computer science, or another relevant technical discipline, or equivalent technical experience
- 12+ years of experience in engineering, systems engineering, technical program management, hardware program leadership, or a related field
- Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary systems from concept through development, prototype builds, verification, production readiness, integration, deployment, and operational use
- Experience with complex electronic, RF, or electromechanical systems in aerospace, defense, space, telecommunications, or another hardware-intensive environment
- Strong understanding of requirements, interfaces, architecture, verification, validation, configuration, and technical risk
- Experience integrating hardware, software, manufacturing, supply chain, test, infrastructure, and operational workstreams
- Experience building integrated engineering plans and managing milestones, critical paths, assumptions, resource constraints, and recovery plans
- Ability to challenge technical assumptions and influence senior engineering leaders
- Exceptional written, verbal, and executive communication skills
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. personnel security clearance and satisfy applicable U.S. export-control requirements
- Experience managing international infrastructure, permitting, spectrum, regulatory, or site-acceptance dependencies
- Familiarity with requirements-management, PLM, ERP, scheduling, and engineering-work-management systems
- Experience leading, mentoring, and developing technical program managers or other cross-functional program leaders, with the ability to build scalable program-management practices
- Eligibility to obtain required U.S. Department of State ITAR authorizations
Benefits:
- Bonus
- Stock options
- Benefits
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