Vice President of Programs – Operations

Role Overview

• Own execution of customer programs across commercial and government missions.
• Ensure delivery of program milestones, mission deployments, and operational readiness.
• Serve as the executive owner responsible for successful program delivery.
• Coordinate directly with government and commercial stakeholders to ensure mission success.
• Establish repeatable processes for integrating the Quindar platform into customer mission environments.
• Lead operational planning for new satellite missions and customer integrations.
• Reduce time required to onboard new missions onto the Quindar platform.
• Ensure integrations meet reliability, security, and operational requirements.
• Build and lead a program management organization responsible for coordinating delivery across engineering, product, and customer stakeholders.
• Implement structured program reviews, execution tracking, and delivery reporting.
• Drive cross-team accountability to ensure programs execute on schedule.
• Develop operational processes for deploying Quindar across multiple customer environments.
• Establish operational dashboards and reporting to provide visibility into program health and delivery timelines.
• Identify operational bottlenecks and implement systems that increase delivery speed and reliability.
• Partner with company leadership to ensure operational readiness for new customer programs and mission deployments.
• Translate company growth plans into operational requirements for staffing, infrastructure, and execution.
• Support expansion into new government and commercial mission environments.
• Recruit and lead program management and operational staff as the company grows.
• Establish a culture of ownership, urgency, and accountability across operational teams.
• Build the operational infrastructure required to support large-scale satellite mission deployments.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience leading programs, operations, or delivery organizations.
• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. TS/SCI with Poly.
• Experience working in a fast-paced organization or startup.
• Demonstrated experience delivering complex software or software/hardware systems.
• Experience supporting government, aerospace, or national security programs.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams delivering mission-critical systems.
• Experience building operational processes in fast-growing organizations.

Tech Stack

• TypeScript

Benefits

• We take work life balance very seriously. We require employees to take 15 days off but provide unlimited PTO and follow most US federal government holidays.
• Mental health is just as important as physical so we provide quarterly health & wellness benefits.
• Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family with 100% coverage for employees.
• We encourage employees to save for retirement and provide 4% 401(k) matching.
• Annually we have a 4-day company offsite. Previous locations include San Francisco, Nashville, Denver, Santa Fe, New Orleans, San Diego, Bozeman, and New York City.