
Vice President of Programs – Operations
Quindar
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: ARVADA • Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $240,000 - $275,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Own execution of customer programs across commercial and government missions.
- Ensure delivery of program milestones, mission deployments, and operational readiness.
- Serve as the executive owner responsible for successful program delivery.
- Coordinate directly with government and commercial stakeholders to ensure mission success.
- Establish repeatable processes for integrating the Quindar platform into customer mission environments.
- Lead operational planning for new satellite missions and customer integrations.
- Reduce time required to onboard new missions onto the Quindar platform.
- Ensure integrations meet reliability, security, and operational requirements.
- Build and lead a program management organization responsible for coordinating delivery across engineering, product, and customer stakeholders.
- Implement structured program reviews, execution tracking, and delivery reporting.
- Drive cross-team accountability to ensure programs execute on schedule.
- Develop operational processes for deploying Quindar across multiple customer environments.
- Establish operational dashboards and reporting to provide visibility into program health and delivery timelines.
- Identify operational bottlenecks and implement systems that increase delivery speed and reliability.
- Partner with company leadership to ensure operational readiness for new customer programs and mission deployments.
- Translate company growth plans into operational requirements for staffing, infrastructure, and execution.
- Support expansion into new government and commercial mission environments.
- Recruit and lead program management and operational staff as the company grows.
- Establish a culture of ownership, urgency, and accountability across operational teams.
- Build the operational infrastructure required to support large-scale satellite mission deployments.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience leading programs, operations, or delivery organizations.
- Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. TS/SCI with Poly.
- Experience working in a fast-paced organization or startup.
- Demonstrated experience delivering complex software or software/hardware systems.
- Experience supporting government, aerospace, or national security programs.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams delivering mission-critical systems.
- Experience building operational processes in fast-growing organizations.
Benefits
- We take work life balance very seriously. We require employees to take 15 days off but provide unlimited PTO and follow most US federal government holidays.
- Mental health is just as important as physical so we provide quarterly health & wellness benefits.
- Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family with 100% coverage for employees.
- We encourage employees to save for retirement and provide 4% 401(k) matching.
- Annually we have a 4-day company offsite. Previous locations include San Francisco, Nashville, Denver, Santa Fe, New Orleans, San Diego, Bozeman, and New York City.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
program managementoperational planningsoftware deliveryhardware systems integrationprocess developmentexecution trackingdelivery reportingmission deploymentsystem reliabilityoperational infrastructure
Soft Skills
leadershipcross-functional team collaborationaccountabilitycommunicationorganizational skillsproblem-solvingstrategic planningculture buildingstakeholder managementurgency
Certifications
U.S. TS/SCI with Poly