Permitting & Entitlements Strategist

Manna; Tulsa (OK); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Manna operates a drone delivery network across the United States, and the Tulsa role owns permitting and entitlements for multiple markets. You will lead zoning and approvals processes, coordinate with planning departments, and guide market entry timelines with engineering and architectural teams.

The position is national in scope, with oversight from Tulsa, Dallas–Fort Worth and future markets, requiring strong relationships, political navigation, and travel availability to support rapid

Qualifications

• Substantial experience securing land use, ordinance-based and construction approvals across multiple jurisdictions.
• Credible with planning staff and technical reviewers.
• Experience reading site plans and working with architects and engineers.
• Experience managing a large pipeline of concurrent approvals.
• US-based, Central or Mountain time essential.
• Travel up to 75% during active market entry.

Responsibilities

• Entitlements and approvals. Zoning clearance, use determinations, variances, special and conditional use approvals, through to decision.
• Pre-application meetings, technical negotiation with planning staff, and presenting Manna's case at planning commission and hearings alongside corporate affairs where the engagement is political.
• Working relationships with planning departments. Building and holding the relationships that get sites approved, across the jurisdictions we operate in and those we are assessing.
• Permitting assessment of new markets. Reviewing prospective cities and regions: how the jurisdiction works, its zoning and land use position, the approval route, realistic timelines and any constraints that would affect us.
• Design alignment with local requirements. Working with our architects and engineers so submissions are shaped around each jurisdiction's requirements from the outset, and feeding those constraints back into our standard site design.
• Consultant selection and management. Choosing and directing zoning consultants, entitlement specialists and planning advisors in each market, and holding them to a consistent standard
• Permitting intelligence in our tools. Owning the permitting and zoning criteria that sites are rated against in our site

Skills

Land use approvals

Zoning expertise

Stakeholder engagement

Project management

Travel readiness

Job description

Manna operates a drone delivery network across the United States, and the Tulsa role owns permitting and entitlements for multiple markets. You will lead zoning and approvals processes, coordinate with planning departments, and guide market entry timelines with engineering and architectural teams.

The position is national in scope, with oversight from Tulsa, Dallas–Fort Worth and future markets, requiring strong relationships, political navigation, and travel availability to support rapid