What you'll do:
- Generate demonstration plans
- Conduct demonstration event logistics planning
- Coordinate with Go-To-Market leads and customers
- Establish and maintain project action plans and risk metrics
- Generate and maintain project schedules
- Coordinate participation of personnel for demonstration events
- Establish and lead a consistent cadence of well-organized, well-facilitated, and effective meetings, including driving all preparation and follow up activities
- Manage project budgets
- Manage and organize customer correspondence
- Coordinate import/export regulatory compliance – ITAR and EAR
- Facilitate fuel availability and procurement
- Review, understand, and comply with proposals and contracts
- Drive subcontractor performance as applicable
- Act as the key point of contact for the sustainment portion of programs
- Drive program execution of Engineering Change Order (ECO) implementation tasks in the company’s Product Lifecycle Management Software
- Ensure Service Bulletins are released and disseminated to customers, and track their incorporation into fielded hardware.
- Provide continuous, real-time readiness tracking of customer hardware (aircraft, payloads, ground support equipment, etc)
- Serve as the programmatic point of contact for customer requested warranty and non-warranty repairs, to include RMAs to vendors.
- Serve as Deployed Operations Field Service Representatives primary point of contact within the program office
- Represent customer programs in managing Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortage issues.
- Maintain real-time awareness of customer hardware inventory levels, both within Shield AI’s facilities as well as at customer sites. Coordinate replenishment at intervals appropriate to customer usage rates.
- Ensure all customers have access to the most up-to-date technical manuals and bulletins applicable to their hardware configuration.
- Provide customer feedback to internal teams regarding maintainability and sustainability issues.
- Deliver proven, exceptional, and reliable performance in support of customer/end-user’s mission through flawless project management.
- Effectively collaborate, motivate, and lead relevant stakeholders to successfully deliver early, under budget, and with exceptional technical performance.
- Complete critical path analyses including the evaluation of potential means to accelerate the pace or mitigate identified risks
- Identify potential bottlenecks or delays in projects and drive efforts to ensure projects stay on schedule
- Partner with leadership to guide prioritization of projects and utilization of resources
- Support an environment where accountability and program execution excellence are core.
- Report directly to Shield AI’s Senior Director of V-BAT Program Management
Demo Project Manager Tasks:
Assistant Program Manager for Logistics Tasks:
General Tasks:
Required qualifications:
- 4+ years of Project Management experience, including managing schedules, budgets, resources, and events
- Experience with scheduling tools such as Microsoft Project or Smartsheet
- Significant experience and excellent skills with Microsoft Office suite
- Excellent skills in leadership, time management, organization, and team management.
- Theoretical and practical project management knowledge
- Application of project management techniques and tools
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally and domestically as needed
- A demonstrated record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to a high standard, and being kind to others
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles
- Familiarity with aviation product delivery, maintenance, sustainment, and field support
- Undergraduate degree in engineering or business
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Skills Required
- 4+ years of Project Management experience, including managing schedules, budgets, resources, and events
- Experience with scheduling tools such as Microsoft Project or Smartsheet
- Significant experience and excellent skills with Microsoft Office suite
- Excellent leadership, time management, organization, and team management skills
- Theoretical and practical project management knowledge and application of project management techniques and tools
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally and domestically as needed
- Coordinate import/export regulatory compliance (ITAR and EAR)
- Manage project budgets and maintain project schedules, action plans, and risk metrics
- Demonstrated record of strong work ethic, trustworthiness, accountability, and teamwork
- Experience in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles
- Familiarity with aviation product delivery, maintenance, sustainment, and field support
- Undergraduate degree in engineering or business
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
At Shield AI, you won't wait years to see your work reach the field. You'll build hardware and software that operates in the real world right now, in the hands of the people who depend on it. Hivemind, our AI pilot, has been flying since 2018. It has flown more than 30 platforms, including an F-16, and it now sits under a U.S. Air Force production contract for Collaborative Combat Aircraft. When you write code or shape a system here, you contribute to technology with a proven flight record and a clear production future. V-BAT flies intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions with an operational record that stretches from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific. It delivers eyes where they matter most, in the most demanding conditions on earth. The teams behind it watch their work get tested where the stakes are real. X-BAT takes its first flight this year. It's an AI-piloted fighter that needs no runway, built to operate where traditional aircraft can't. Join now and you help shape a program at its earliest, most formative stage. That's the kind of ground-floor work that defines a career. Do the most impactful work of your life, on problems that matter. Autonomy at this level asks a lot of you. You'll take on problems in perception, planning, and control that few teams anywhere are equipped to solve. You'll work across disciplines, from aerospace and robotics to machine learning and systems engineering, alongside people who hold themselves to an exacting standard and expect the same from you. Our mission is clear: protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. That purpose runs through every decision, every design review, and every deployment. It's why the work here carries a weight you can feel. Ready to join our mission? Explore our open roles and find where you fit.
Why Work With Us
Founded in 2015 by a former Navy SEAL, Shield AI builds AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft. Veterans aren't an afterthought here, they're at every level. It's why the work carries weight: AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft flying real missions, from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, protecting service members and civilians.
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