Technical Project Manager, Constellation Ops Team

About the role

The Constellation Team keeps our fleet flying and decides where it goes. Day-to-day, most of our work centers on the 1% of edge cases—the novel, the weird, the unpredictable—and serves two functions: it's a testing ground where edge cases surface bugs and validate new capabilities, and it's forward-deployed customer work where new features get demoed to and studied directly with customers in a hands-on way.

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), where we’re often our own customer.
• Cook up cross-team dependencies and coordinate who needs what and when when one internal team 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.

Qualifications

• Genuinely curious about how the world works.
• Comfortable with uncertainty and shifting priorities.
• Background and fluency to understand the nuances of deeply technical projects.

Skills

You don’t need a background in any of these, but you should find them interesting enough to want to learn. The job involves balloons, atmospheric science, radio, airspace, and defense tech.

Benefits

N/A

Pay

$110,000–$150,000

Schedule

In-person required.