Program Manager Director, Skylo
$21.5-230k
3 days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
Satellite-based device connectivity
Posted today
Satellite-based device connectivity
101-200 employees
Posted today
$21.5-230k
3 days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To be the most efficient way to connect anything, anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Have built and scaled technical program management teams inside complex software, networking, or telecom environments
- Lead well without direct authority. You align multidisciplinary teams through influence, clarity, and credibility rather than reporting lines
- Are technically fluent in cloud-native architectures, network engineering, and global carrier operations
- Have partnered directly with enterprise customer TPM leadership to run joint programs
- Follow through on what you commit to, and communicate technical status honestly, including to executives and external partners
- Are deeply curious and quick to learn. You dig into unfamiliar domains, ask the questions others skip, and welcome feedback and mentorship
- Do your best work in a fast-paced, high-growth company. You're comfortable building a structure where little exists yet, then reshaping it as the company scales
What the job involves
- This role will own one of the broadest execution surfaces at Skylo
- You'll own the primary execution bridge across Software Engineering, Network Engineering, Product, Product Support and Customer Success, on infrastructure that has to hold across satellite operators, carriers, chipset makers, and OEMs on five continents
- As Director of Program Management, you'll build and lead the team that turns that breadth into predictable delivery, organized as two pods: Technical Program Management as the integration layer, and Program Operations as the operating backbone
- Your job is to make deployment at this scale predictable and customer-focused, and to build a team that sustains a culture of invention while operating a global network at scale
- Lead a team across Technical Program Management and Program Operations that leaders across the company trust to deliver
- Own technical program execution across Software Engineering, Network Engineering, Product, Product Support, and Customer Success, so complex programs ship integrated rather than in pieces
- Manage inter-team dependencies, surface risk early, and clear blockers before they stall delivery
- Apply engineering judgment to trade-offs between speed, performance, and technical debt, and catch risks before they reach a customer
- Establish the processes, tooling, and delivery standards the rest of the org relies on to ship predictably as scope and headcount grow
- Run the operating rhythms that turn strategy into commitments the company hits: quarterly planning, mid-quarter reviews, retrospectives, and feedback loops
- Shorten the loop from field issue to engineering fix, building the feedback channels from customer operations into core engineering that harden the system with every release
- Give leadership and external partners a reliable view of status, trade-offs, and risks they can plan against
Our take
Skylo connects Internet of Things (IoT) devices to satellite networks using the cellular-based Narrowband IoT protocol. It is considered one of the world’s most affordable and ubiquitous networks that connects any machine or sensor.
The company stands out for being the first to leverage the aforementioned protocol, which allows its customers to instantaneously connect billions of devices in remote areas, without having to wait for any new satellites to launch. Having tested its technology with government and enterprise clients, the company then invested funding into scaling service in emerging markets, starting with India and Southeast Asia.
More recently, Skylo has focused on forming partnerships, such as with IoT firm FocusPoint and telecommunications equipment company Anritsu Corporation, through which it has helped deliver IoT monitoring and emergency escalation services and enhanced Non-Terrestrial Network device testing. It also enjoyed an oversubscribed round of funding in 2025, after growing its commercial coverage area to include Brazil, Australia and New Zealand. These two significant wins exemplify Skylo's status as a leading connectivity company.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2025
$30m
LATE VC
Feb 2024
$37m
LATE VC
Total funding: $183m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, retirement plan
- Monthly allowances for wellness and education reimbursement
- A generous time off policy, holidays, and the opportunity to temporarily work abroad
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Andrew Kalman
(Co-Founder & Hub Architect)Previously co-founded and served as Director of R&D for Euphonix. Founded Pumpkin, serving as President and CTO.
Andrew Nuttall
(Co-Founder & CTO)Received a Doctor of Philosophy in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University.
Parthsarathi Trivedi
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously acted as a Graduate Research Assistant at MIT's Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment.
Tarun Gupta
(Co-Founder)Previously acted as Head of Strategy and Operations for Google, President for Parallel Infrastructure, and as Chief Architect for FiberTower.
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