Program Manager, Ready
Customer Implementation
+ Equity
Growth platform for internet providers
Open for applications
Growth platform for internet providers
21-100 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help broadband professionals monetize, and connect more people to better services.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate brings a mix of public sector savvy, technical fluency, and a growth mindset—leveraging AI tools to scale impact, track progress, and turn customers into champions
- Deep familiarity with how federal funding flows through state and local government—experience in broadband, infrastructure, or related programs is a plus
- Experience implementing technical solutions with or within government (e.g., GovTech, civic tech, federal grant programs)
- Ability to quickly learn federal policy frameworks and advise internal teams and clients accordingly
- Technically fluent—you’re comfortable adopting new tools quickly (e.g., Slack, Linear, Notion, AI tools like Claude or ChatGPT) and using them to drive efficiency, collaboration, and insight
- Proven track record managing or mentoring client-facing teams in fast-paced or high-growth environments
- Exceptional communication, relationship-building, and stakeholder management skills—especially in politically complex environments
- Strong critical thinking and analytical skills, with the ability to anticipate both immediate needs and longer-term opportunities
- Self-starter who thrives on ownership and autonomy, but collaborates well across technical and non-technical teams
- Bachelor’s degree in public policy, business, technology, communications, or a related field. A master's degree is a big plus
- Nice to have: Project management experience and/or certifications (e.g., PMP, Agile, Scrum)
What the job involves
- We are seeking a dynamic, mission-driven leader to join our P3 division and manage our client implementation and success team
- This individual will serve as a key partner to government stakeholders, ensuring complex, multi-stakeholder projects are delivered seamlessly while unlocking long-term partnerships across verticals like broadband, transportation, energy, and water infrastructure
- Lead the client implementation and success team, ensuring projects are executed on time, within scope, and to high quality standards
- Guide state and local partners through program implementation—turning mandates into milestones and challenges into opportunities
- Use AI-driven tooling to manage documentation, track project health, and create transparency across stakeholders
- Build trusted relationships with key decision-makers, enabling Ready to expand horizontally across state programs beyond broadband
- Collaborate with sales, product, and marketing teams to ensure our platform evolves with real-world needs and policy shifts
- Stay up-to-date on relevant federal and state policy developments; distill insights to drive proactive engagement
- Identify opportunities for cross-agency growth in areas like water, energy, transportation, and public safety
- Mentor and coach a high-performing, mission-aligned client success team
- Represent Ready at key convenings, public sector forums, and strategic meetings
Our take
As internet providers strive to expand their services to harder-to-reach communities, companies such as Ready are finding new ways to serve their customer base. Founded in 2020, Ready.net helps these companies collect, audit, and share data, connect to more customers and generally scale their projects.
With federal and state governments in the US offering billions to fund internet connectivity expansion, Ready are already winning big contracts. This is because of the necessity for internet providers to give funding programs extensive data on service areas, socio-economic surveys and existing connectivity in the areas they’re planning to expand into - which Ready is able to provide.
Founded at a time when internet connectivity was at its highest demand, and with good early funding, Ready has certainly got off to a promising start. In 2022, it partnered with Nokia to help local broadband providers connect unserved and underserved communities. With the expansion of broadband services still a major goal in the US, the company should have plenty of opportunity for further success.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2022
$10.5m
SERIES A
May 2021
$4m
SEED
Total funding: $15.7m
Company benefits
- Meaningful equity upside
- Competitive (and ever expanding) benefits for employees and dependents
- Opportunities to learn and grow – all things startups
- A chance to play a role in defining the roadmap as we pursue a bold vision and and a big goal
- Work from anywhere you want, as long as you can get great internet (and your work here at Ready helps make this true in more places)
- To get away - we convene 2-3x / year for [optional, encouraged] retreats
- We’re actively shaping our benefits program: have a say in which benefits matter to you
- The charter to a build product in a market that is set to receive $65 billion in grant funding across the United States
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jase Wilson
(CEO)Previously Founder and CEO at Neighborly and CEO at Luminopolis.
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