Deputy Program Manager - USV Payload Integrations

Saronic Technologies Inc.; Virginia Beach (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental and Vision Insurance

Time Off

Parental Leave

401(k) Plan

Stock Options

Life and Disability Insurance

Pet Insurance

Free lunch and snacks

Job summary

Saronic Technologies is a leader in autonomy at sea and seeks a Deputy Program Manager to lead sUSV Mission Package Integration activities in the Virginia Beach area, including hands-on testing with customer sites and Saronic facilities.

You will own budgets, schedules, statements of work, and cross-functional coordination across engineering, vessel operations, and customer teams. Travel up to 50% domestically/internationally is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Systems, Business, or a related field.
• 5+ years in program management, systems integration, or technical product delivery.
• Ownership of budgets, schedules, scope, statements of work, and customer relationships.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams across engineering and operations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with technical teams, end-users, and government customers.
• Working knowledge of small vessel HME structures and systems.
• Working knowledge of networking, cybersecurity, and software architecture.
• Willingness to participate in on-water testing and field exercise events.
• Experience managing risk, configuration, and readiness for complex maritime systems.

Responsibilities

• Own program budgets, schedules, and statements of work, and control performance to customer and internal objectives.
• Report program health across scope, budget, schedule, technical objectives, and customer satisfaction to leadership and customers.
• Manage customer purchase requests from quote through delivery, acceptance, and invoicing, including supplier coordination and contract actions.
• Manage and track supporting logistics for customer events and integration activities, including customer acceptance.
• Lead payload and mission package integration with Engineering and vessel operations teams, from design through on-water testing and fielding.
• Plan and run on-water tests, exercises, and demonstration events.
• Own mission package configuration across builds and variants, ensuring configurations are validated and approved before deployment.
• Support configuration management activities of payloads and mission packages across builds and variants, ensuring traceability from design to delivery.
• Provide technical support for fielded systems and manage service campaigns, including maintenance, retrofits, and sustainment.
• Travel domestically and internationally, up to 50%, to support field operations, exercises, and customer engagements; primarily to Saronic facilities and government facilities in the DC area, with secondary travel to Austin TX, San Diego CA, and other CONUS locations.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for customers and end-users, coordinating across Saronic's cross-functional teams.
• Identify, mitigate, and remove risks and blockers to program execution.
• Deliver kick-off briefs, status reports, and after action reports.
• Support new business with win themes and technical approaches, working with Product Engineering and Growth.
• Turn customer feedback and field lessons learned into actionable improvements for Product development and Engineering teams.

Skills

Program management

Systems integration

Technical product delivery

Cross-functional teams

Communication

HME knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Saronic Technologies is a leader in autonomy at sea and seeks a Deputy Program Manager to lead sUSV Mission Package Integration activities in the Virginia Beach area, including hands-on testing with customer sites and Saronic facilities.

You will own budgets, schedules, statements of work, and cross-functional coordination across engineering, vessel operations, and customer teams. Travel up to 50% domestically/internationally is required.