Technical Program Manager, Skyways
4-5 days a week in office
AI-driven autonomous delivery drones
Be an early applicant
AI-driven autonomous delivery drones
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
4-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To provide long-range, heavy-payload, autonomous drone solutions for the harshest environments.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrated experience driving complex hardware development programs from concept to production, ideally in aerospace, robotics, or a highly regulated environment
- Strong understanding of product development lifecycles
- Proficiency with project management software (Asana) and G Suite
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills across all levels of an organization
- Strong leadership presence and ability to influence without direct authority
- Superior problem-solving and critical thinking abilities
- High level of organizational skill and attention to detail
- Proactive, self-starter with a strong bias for action
- Comfortable with ambiguity and able to thrive in a dynamic, rapidly evolving environment
Desirable
- Experience with autonomous systems, aviation, or defense programs
- Familiarity with airworthiness certification processes (e.g., FAA, DoD)
- Knowledge of systems engineering principles
- Experience in a fast-paced startup environment
- PMP or equivalent program management certification
- Experience with PLM/PDM systems
What the job involves
- We are looking for our first Technical Program Manager at Skyways! This is a big opportunity for someone interested in joining a startup with a lot of traction, contracts, revenue, and at an inflection point as we're scaling up. If you're looking for a an adventure, you've come to the right place!
- Lead daily stand-ups and weekly program reviews, ensuring clear action items and accountability
- Proactively identify and resolve technical blockers and cross-functional dependencies
- Communicate program status, risks, and key decisions to internal teams and leadership
- Develop, track, and update detailed program schedules and resource plans, including managing staff and budget
- Facilitate technical discussions and decision-making between engineering teams and external partners
- Orchestrate intricate technical interdependencies across engineering disciplines and external partners, ensuring seamless progress and proactive problem resolution
- Manage issue tracking for projects
- Oversee contract management, including writing and negotiation
- Define and track project milestones
- Directly contribute to Skyways' mission by ensuring the timely and high-quality delivery of our autonomous aircraft, accelerating our path to mass production and global deployment for critical military and commercial logistics
Our take
Maintaining smooth cargo shipments is essential to the integrity of supply chains, something that is equally important to both businesses and military forces. Such logistics are generally handled by cars and trucks, but this greatly limits the efficiency of routes and can negatively impact stealth for military supply chains.
Skyways develops AI-driven autonomous delivery drones that are focused on reducing supply chain bottlenecks for military forces as well as businesses. The company is currently developing its V3 drone, set to replace its current V2. With over 130 test flights already performed, its set to hit the market in 2026.
Whilst offense and defense drones are commonplace in today’s military landscape, Skyways has identified the gap in the market of low-flying and autonomous delivery drones, helping to reduce loads carried by troops, increase resupply capabilities, and lower detection rates. The company currently focuses on facilitating military deliveries but shows promise to improve last-mile eCommerce order fulfilment in the future.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2025
$37m
GRANT
Dec 2021
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $54m
Company HQ
Sixth Street Historic District, Austin, TX
Leadership
Charles Acknin
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded Elixir Labs where they served as CEO. Prior to that, they were a Senior Software Engineer at Google and a Software Engineer at Oracle.
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