Autonomous Drone Deployment Lead

Precision Labs; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health insurance

401K savings plan

Paid vacation

Sick leave

Holiday pay

Job summary

Skydio, the leading US drone company, seeks a senior program manager to own commercial deployments end to end, from pilot to scaled rollout. You will work directly with customers' operators and safety leads to build procedures, training, and maintenance practices, and feed lessons learned back to Product and Engineering.

You'll operate across hardware, software, and aviation compliance, coordinating with internal teams to deliver repeatable deployments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a customer-facing program or professional services role delivering complex technical programs.
• Experience leading multi-phase implementations combining hardware, software, and processes.
• Strong project management: planning, dependency tracking, risk management, execution tracking.
• Experience standing up new technology at customer sites with training and documentation.
• Clear writing and speaking, comfortable in customer and engineering review settings.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve execution problems independently.

Responsibilities

• Own planning and execution for commercial deployments from pilot to scaled rollout.
• Manage scope, schedule, dependencies, risk across hardware, software, and operational workstreams.
• Partner with customers to build the operational foundation: Standard Operating Procedures, Safety Management System inputs, and maintenance plans.
• Run the handoff to steady-state operations, and confirm the customer's team is genuinely ready before you step back.
• Translate customer operational requirements into execution plans and clear internal deliverables.
• Coordinate across Mission Success, Support, Product, Engineering, and Operations.
• Keep customer expectations and Skydio's actual capabilities in the same place, including saying no when that's the honest answer.
• Support commercial expansion - early deployments, new use cases, and the groundwork for scaling them.

Skills

Customer-facing program management

Multi-phase implementations

Project management fundamentals

Clear writing and speaking

Independent problem solving

Job description

Skydio, the leading US drone company, seeks a senior program manager to own commercial deployments end to end, from pilot to scaled rollout. You will work directly with customers' operators and safety leads to build procedures, training, and maintenance practices, and feed lessons learned back to Product and Engineering.

You'll operate across hardware, software, and aviation compliance, coordinating with internal teams to deliver repeatable deployments.