About the role
Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Job Description:
The Senior Project Manager – Technical Delivery & Cross-Functional Execution is an experienced practitioner responsible for driving the end-to-end delivery of complex, technically-led programs across distributed, cross-functional organizations. Operating at the intersection of IT, Product, Data, and Business Operations, this person brings the structure, process rigor, and delivery discipline needed to execute at pace without sacrificing quality or alignment.
This role is defined by its breadth: the ability to work fluently across organizational boundaries — aligning engineering squads, product teams, platform and infrastructure groups, and business stakeholders toward shared delivery outcomes. Beyond project execution, this person actively designs and implements the processes, workflows, and tooling that enable teams to operate more effectively and deliver more predictably over time.
The ideal candidate is technically literate, process-oriented, and deeply comfortable building structure in ambiguous environments. They bring the credibility to engage meaningfully with engineering and architecture teams, the communication skills to translate complexity for executive audiences, and the operational rigor to keep delivery on track across multiple concurrent workstreams.
Success in this engagement is defined by on-time delivery of technical programs, clear and consistent cross-functional alignment, measurable improvements in delivery predictability, and the establishment of durable processes that outlast the engagement.
What you'll do:
- Lead end-to-end delivery of complex technical programs and projects — spanning software development, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, data and analytics, and system integrations — from initiation through to production release and stabilization