About Darksaber Labs:
Darksaber Labs is focused on creating next generation tools that enable our warfighters to win. Our company is dedicated to ensuring the United States maintains a technical edge against our adversaries. We build tools & people to provide value add capabilities our end users depend on.
Our products and services are designed with our customer's requirements in mind. We operate with the quality, integrity, and agility our customers expect.
About the role - PM Special Programs
- The Program Manager, Special Programs position will lead our newly created Professional Services Department, with a focus managing of a team of Direct Support specialists who deploy globally. As a P&L position, the PM will be responsible for monthly reporting metrics, maintaining schedules for deployed personnel, and interfacing with the customer as Darksaber's face & main point of contact on contract driven deliverables.
What you'll do
- Establish Darksaber's newly created Services Department, ensuring professional hiring & employee needs are met in conjunction with customer contract requirements
- Recruit, hire, schedule, and LEAD a team of sUAS professionals responsible for global deployment
- UxV platform selection, validation, training, and deployment
- Ensure POI development, acceptance, and continual maintenance for training curriculum (delegated)
- Management of contract deliverables for all Professional Services
- Manage schedules of all team members, ensure financing, ODC budgets, and AP/AR are managed to PMP standards for customer review & audit
- Reports directly to the CEO as the company's only committing official, and the CFO for financial reporting metrics
- Work directly with founders to build the company's growth strategy across all aspects of Professional Services
Qualifications
- US citizenship (required)
- FSP eligibility required for sensitive programs (required)
- sUAS operational experience in a combat arms or SOF unit (required)
- Leadership experience managing teams with up to 6 Direct Reports
- Graduate Degree & PMP (required, though PMP can be obtained post-hiring)
- Contract management experience, MS project, reporting financials (required)
- Experience managing contract deliverables subject to audit (highly desired)
- A minimum of 5 years of P&L responsibility (highly desired)
- C-UAS knowledge & red-cell experience (highly desired)
- 10% travel (CONUS, with occasional overseas trips a possibility)
Skills Required
- US citizenship
- Full-scope polygraph eligibility for sensitive programs
- sUAS operational experience in a combat arms or Special Operations Forces unit
- Leadership experience managing teams with up to six direct reports
- Graduate degree
- PMP certification, which may be obtained after hiring
- Contract management experience
- MS Project experience
- Financial reporting experience
- Experience managing contract deliverables subject to audit
- At least five years of P&L responsibility
- C-UAS knowledge and red-cell experience
What We Do
Darksaber Labs is a defense technology startup developing next-generation electronic warfare systems for warfighters. Its work combines agentic artificial intelligence, edge computing, and signal-processing technologies to create advanced AI systems for disconnected, contested, and data-heavy operational environments. The company’s engineering focus includes signal-processing pipelines, FPGA implementation, and traditional and machine-learning-based methods designed to support modern defense missions and electronic-warfare applications.
