Technical Project Manager, Constellation Ops Team

The role

This person will track commitments across the organization and drive projects to completion. They will manage project tracking, brief leadership, and run weekly performance meetings across hardware, software, manufacturing, and field deployment.

What you will do

• Run project tracking for every project across the organization.
• Brief the Head of Constellation on project status and deadlines.
• Run the weekly performance meetings.
• Capture action items per person across parallel workstreams, set deadlines, and follow up.
• Monitor obligations including contracts, external deliverables, and internal shipments.
• Coordinate needs between internal teams.
• Turn flight data into clear statistics on balloon performance and failure drivers.
• Protect important-but-not-urgent work like postmortems and process fixes.

Required qualifications

• Background and fluency to understand the nuances of deeply technical projects.
• Ability to turn one-off prototypes into consistent processes and systems.
• Ability to follow up relentlessly and warmly.
• Ability to drive things to completion and write documentation.
• Comfortable with uncertainty and shifting priorities.

Nice to have

• Interest in balloons, atmospheric science, radio, airspace, and defense tech.

About the company

WindBorne Systems designs, manufactures, and operates a global constellation of smart weather balloons to generate weather intelligence. Their mission is to eliminate weather uncertainty to help humanity adapt to climate change.