Vice President of Programs & Operations

Responsibilities

• Own execution of customer programs across commercial and government missions
• Ensure delivery of program milestones, mission deployments, and operational readiness
• Serve as the executive owner responsible for successful program delivery
• Cook directly with government and commercial stakeholders to ensure mission success
• Establish repeatable processes for integrating the Quindar platform into customer mission environments
• Lead operational planning for new satellite missions and customer integrations
• Reduce time required to onboard new missions onto the Quindar platform
• Ensure integrations meet reliability, security, and operational requirements
• Build and lead a program management organization responsible for coordinating delivery across engineering, product, and customer stakeholders
• Implement structured program reviews, execution tracking, and delivery reporting
• Drive cross-team accountability to ensure programs execute on schedule
• Develop operational processes for deploying Quindar across multiple customer environments
• Establish operational dashboards and reporting to provide visibility into program health and delivery timelines
• Identify operational bottlenecks and implement systems that increase delivery speed and reliability
• Partner with company leadership to ensure operational readiness for new customer programs and mission deployments
• Translate company growth plans into operational requirements for staffing, infrastructure, and execution
• Support expansion into new government and commercial mission environments
• Recruit and lead program management and operational staff as the company grows
• Build the operational infrastructure required to support large-scale satellite mission deployments

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience leading programs, operations, or delivery organizations
• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. TS/SCI with Poly
• Experience working in a fast-paced organization or startup
• Demonstrated experience delivering complex software or software/hardware systems
• Experience supporting government, aerospace, or national security programs
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams delivering mission-critical systems
• Experience building operational processes in fast-growing organizations