{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"e4af65b26aa845527a293c70","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e4af65b26aa845527a293c70","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e4af65b26aa845527a293c70","title":"Technical Project Manager","description":"Black Swift's aircraft fly straight into Category 5 hurricanes to gather data nobody else can get. As Technical Project Manager, you're the calm at the center of that storm, keeping schedules, teams, and priorities moving smoothly\r\nBlack Swift TechnologiesBlack Swift Technologies builds unmanned aircraft systems for the most demanding flight environments on Earth. Founded in 2011 in Boulder, Colorado, and born out of research flying into tornadic supercell thunderstorms, BST designs its aircraft, avionics, autonomy software, payloads, and ground control systems entirely in house. That level of vertical integration lets a small, senior team field capabilities most organizations only prototype.At the core of every aircraft is SwiftCore, our flight management system developed from the ground up rather than assembled around an off the shelf autopilot. Owning the entire stack is why our systems survive conditions that ground everyone else, and why our engineers can innovate at any layer of the aircraft.BST is now scaling from a research driven engineering firm into a production supplier of autonomous aircraft for environmental sensing and defense missions, expanding our platform family with the S3, building toward NDAA compliant sourcing and Blue UAS listing, and growing rapidly with the backing of our strategic partner KrateoSky.\r\nWhat You Will DoAs Black Swift's first Technical Project Manager, you'll build and run the program management function from scratch, owning execution across multiple concurrent hardware and software efforts from kickoff through closeout. Partnering closely with the CTO and technical leads, you'll translate high-level roadmap objectives into structured epics, stories, tasks, dependencies, and review cadences that keep teams aligned and moving, while driving status reporting, certification and flight-readiness coordination, and clear communication across the board.\r\nResponsibilities:Develop project and program plans, support proposal inputs, and establish execution baselines for scope, schedule, milestones, and deliverables from program start through closeout.\r\nIntroduce Agile fundamentals to a team adopting them for the first time, tailoring ceremonies like planning, review, and retros to fit the team's size and cadence.\r\nReinforce blameless reporting and continuous improvement, and remove blockers to keep administrative drag low.\r\nDrive day-to-day program execution across kickoff, technical milestones, customer reviews, and closeout; maintain schedule integrity, surface slips early, and coordinate recovery actions when needed.\r\nOwn the health, structure, and consistency of program tooling in Asana, ensuring tasks, owners, due dates, dependencies, and status signals remain current and decision-useful.\r\nMaintain the RIO register, drive mitigation planning, and use flow metrics and first-principles analysis to identify emerging execution risks before they impact delivery, certification, or flight readiness.\r\nDraft status reports, deliverable documentation, and review materials; lead internal and customer meetings with clear communication on progress, tradeoffs, risks, and next actions.\r\nCoordinate schedules, documentation, submissions, and stakeholder actions required for certification activity and flight-permission efforts, working across engineering, operations, and external parties to keep approvals on track.\r\nProduce and maintain planning assumptions, meeting outputs, lessons learned, closeout documentation, and deliverable packages with a high standard of completeness, traceability, and accuracy.\r\nWork across engineering, flight operations, product, and customer stakeholders to synchronize priorities, resolve dependencies, and align technical execution with business commitments.\r\nApply AI and automation tools to improve ticket drafting, reporting, documentation quality, workflow efficiency, and decision speed, with a clear bias toward eliminating repetitive manual work.\r\nWho You AreThe ideal candidate is a player-coach who thrives on owning outcomes in small company or startup environments, with a track record of full-cycle project delivery. You bring formal Agile training paired with the judgment to introduce it thoughtfully to a team encountering it for the first time. Working with engineers on technical tradeoffs feels as natural as reporting status to a customer. You have high EQ, competence that speaks for itself, and a bias toward practical execution over rigid process.\r\nQualifications:\r\n5+ years of experience in technical project management, program management, agile delivery, Scrum Master, or related execution roles in engineering-led environments.\r\nDemonstrated success managing complex cross-functional work from kickoff through closeout in hardware, software, robotics, aerospace, industrial, or government-contracted programs.\r\nExperience translating technical strategy or product roadmaps into executable backlog structures, sprint plans, milestones, and day-to-day tasking.\r\nFormal training in Agile and Scrum practices.\r\nExcellent facilitation, organization, scheduling, and stakeholder communication skills, with the ability to influence outcomes without formal authority.\r\nComfort operating in technical environments and partnering closely with engineers and technical leaders on planning, tradeoffs, execution risks, and delivery decisions.\r\nExperience with project and work-management tooling such as Asana, Jira, or equivalent, including maintenance of work in progress (WIP) boards, dependencies, reporting, and status visibility.\r\nStrong written communication skills, including status reporting, review materials, deliverable documentation, and customer-facing program communications.\r\nPractical proficiency using AI and automation tools.\r\nBackground in UAS, aerospace, defense, robotics, or other regulated, mission-critical industries, including SBIR/STTR or government-funded R&D work preferred.\r\nAbility to travel up to 25% of the time.\r\nDue to the nature of this role and the work performed, candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Defense security clearance, as required for the position.\r\nBenefits\r\n100% paid healthcare benefits,\r\n401(k)\r\nFlexible / Unlimited PTO\r\nFree Eldora ski pass, plus flexible mornings on 6\"+ powder days","company":"Creative Alignments","rawCompany":"creative alignments","city":"Boulder","state":"CO","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-07T01:40:47.710Z","occupations":[{"code":"13-1082.00","title":"Project Management Specialists","slug":"project-management-specialists"},{"code":"15-1299.09","title":"Information Technology Project Managers","slug":"information-technology-project-managers"},{"code":"11-9041.00","title":"Architectural and Engineering Managers","slug":"architectural-and-engineering-managers"}],"industries":[{"code":"336411","title":"Aircraft Manufacturing","slug":"aircraft-manufacturing"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Technical Project Manager","description":"Black Swift's aircraft fly straight into Category 5 hurricanes to gather data nobody else can get. 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