Mission Development Lead, Aircraft
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The Opportunity
As the Aircraft Commercial and Civil Development Lead, you will carry Gamera into commercial and civil markets. Long range, heavy payload, low cost per flight hour, and autonomy that scales is a combination those operators have never been offered. You will work directly with customers to understand their needs, represent their circumstances internally as you interface closely with engineering teams, and shape and capture opportunities.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Own your portfolio from day one. You will be handed real responsibility immediately. Rapid learning, iteration, and tenacity are what turn that into results.
Understand customers from first principles. Sit with them, learn their missions and constraints the way they experience them, and become the person internally who can represent that accurately.
Stay technical. You will be directly involved in product, working closely with Swarm engineers to build for your customers' operational needs. The best opportunities get found by people who understand both the customer and the aircraft.
Find and shape opportunities. Identify them, evaluate them, decide what is worth pursuing, and bring ideas to the rest of the team.
Write the things that move decisions. Bring structure to complex pools of information and turn it into white papers, proposals, presentations, and analysis that land with internal and external audiences.
Organize and scale. As the company and your portfolio grow, so will your role in leading mission execution across many parallel threads. You will manage complex accounts and relationships efficiently and precisely.
WHAT YOU'VE DONE
Moved with urgency to make big things happen
Worked on complex hardware and software systems
Managed complex technical projects
Business development, productization, and contracting
WHAT SETS YOU APART
Mission alignment
Strong writing and research skills
Comfortable setting and achieving goals in an amorphous environment
An enthusiasm for and broad knowledge of technology development
Humility
Ability to travel 25 to 75 percent required
Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance
ITAR requirement
- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
- Swarm Aero is an equal opportunity employer. We value diverse backgrounds and experiences and make employment decisions without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, or disability. What We Offer
- Meaningful equity in a high-growth defense technology company
- Competitive base salary commensurate with experience
- Medical, dental, vision, and 401k
- PTO and paid sick leave
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Daily catered lunch (office)
- Paid parental leave
- Direct impact on a critical national security mission
- A world-class team of engineers and operators solving genuinely hard problems
About Swarm Aero
Private aerospace-defense company building UAV swarms and command-and-control software for U.S. forces and allies.
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