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The company is moving quickly to launch the first aircraft designed specifically for swarming, as well as the Command & Control software to mobilize swarms of thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets and empower human operators to achieve superhuman results.\nThe team has created and exited multiple startups, negotiated defense deals worth billions of dollars, and designed and built 30+ novel aircraft, with aerospace experience from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic.\nOur aircraft work is scaling fast. Our Group 5 aircraft program runs alongside a growing set of research programs, with design, build, supply chain, and test all moving in parallel. We need one strong Program Manager to lead program management across all of it.\nYou will join our Program Management Office, reporting to the Director of PMO. You will take full ownership of our research programs and partner with the Director to run the aircraft program, owning cost, schedule, scope, risk, and the customer relationship. You will be the person who knows where every aircraft effort actually stands on any given day.\nWhat you'll do\nOwn our research programs end to end as the primary point of contact for government program managers and contracting teams\nDrive program execution on our aircraft program with the Director of PMO, from design reviews through fabrication, integration, ground test, and flight test\nBuild and maintain the integrated master schedule (IMS) across both efforts, tied to contract milestones and test events\nOwn budgets and burn, track against funding, and flag variance early with a recovery plan\nDeliver contract requirements on time: CDRLs, monthly status and financial reports, technical reports, and final deliverables\nRun the program cadence: weekly reviews, technical interchange meetings, milestone reviews (PDR, CDR, TRR), and status to leadership and customers\nRun the risk, issue, and opportunity process and drive mitigations to closure\nCoordinate engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and flight test, and deconflict shared people, hardware, and test assets between efforts\nManage scope changes, contract modifications, and follow-on work with our contracts and business development teams\nBuild the PMO tools and processes we will need as we add aircraft programs\nWhat you bring\n7+ years of program management, with at least 4 years owning cost, schedule, and technical performance on aircraft, UAS, or other aerospace and defense hardware programs\nDirect experience managing DoD research and development contracts (S&T, prototype, or 6.2/6.3 efforts)\nTrack record taking aircraft or aerospace hardware through build and test, ideally to first flight\nWorking knowledge of government contract execution: CDRLs, funded vs. ceiling value, modifications, and customer reporting\nHands-on with IMS development (MS Project, Primavera, Smartsheet or similar), budget tracking, and EVM concepts\nAbility to run several efforts at once and make clear priority calls when they compete\nClear, direct communicator who can brief an engineer, an executive, and a government program manager\nU.S. person status as defined by ITAR, and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance\nNice to have\nExperience working with DoD research labs and innovation organizations\nProgram experience on Group 3 to Group 5 UAS, collaborative autonomy, or experimental aircraft\nExperience with OTA, SBIR/STTR, or other rapid acquisition contract vehicles\nFamiliarity with airworthiness and flight test planning\nBackground at a startup or fast-scaling hardware company\nActive Secret clearance or higher\nPMP or DAWIA Program Management certification\nLocation and details\nLocation: Remote (U.S.), with regular travel to Oxnard, CA, customer sites, suppliers, and test sites\nReports to: Director of PMO\nExport control: This role requires access to information subject to ITAR. Candidates must be U.S. persons as defined by 22 CFR 120.62.\nITAR requirement\nTo 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.\nSwarm Aero is an equal opportunity employer. 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