Technical Program Manager, Constellation Ops Team

About the role

The Constellation Team at WindBorne Systems is responsible for keeping our fleet of smart weather balloons flying and ensuring that we are collecting the most accurate and comprehensive atmospheric data possible. This role involves managing projects, tracking commitments, and ensuring that all learnings from edge cases are turned into durable progress.

Responsibilities

• Run project tracking for every project across the organization, so anyone can see what’s in flight, who owns it, and whether it’s on schedule.
• Brief the Head of Constellation on project status and deadlines; turn direction into tracked owners and milestones.
• Run the weekly performance meetings: capture action items per person across parallel workstreams, set deadlines, and follow up until they close.
• Know whether we’re meeting our obligations—contracts, external deliverables, and internal shipments across the operational stack (manufacturing, launch, flight, constellation).
• Cook up coordination between internal teams when one builds for another or for an exercise.
• Turn flight data into clear statistics on balloon performance and what’s driving failures.
• Protect the important-but-not-urgent work (postmortems, process fixes) that gets buried when everything’s on fire.

Requirements

• You’re 1 to 10, not 0 to 1. You turn one-off prototypes into consistent processes and systems.
• You follow up relentlessly and warmly. People accept accountability from you because you’re reliable, direct, and invested in their success.
• You finish things, and you make them durable. A loose end bothers you until it’s closed. There are a lot of balls in the air at any time—you’re someone who will track each one, drive it to completion, and write documentation to ensure it endures.
• You’re genuinely curious about how the world works. The job involves balloons, atmospheric science, radio, airspace, and defense tech. You don’t need a background in any of these, but you should find them interesting enough to want to learn. You don’t have to do technical work, but you have the background and fluency to understand the nuances of deeply technical projects.
• You’re comfortable with uncertainty and shifting priorities. Procedures evolve, hardware changes, customers reprioritize. The trap for someone who loves structure is getting frustrated when nothing stays still; we’re looking for someone who will keep things on track even as they’re constantly shifting.

Qualifications

• Genuine curiosity about atmospheric science, radio, airspace, and defense tech.
• Comfort with uncertainty and shifting priorities.
• Ability to turn one-off prototypes into consistent processes and systems.
• Reliable, direct, and invested in others' success.
• Curiosity-driven approach to problem-solving.

Skills

• Project management
• Communication skills
• Technical understanding of atmospheric science, radio, airspace, and defense tech

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance 100% covered
• Unlimited PTO
• Office food and beverages (minimum 2x catered lunches & dinners a week)

Pay

$110,000–$150,000

Schedule

In-person required.