Skydio is seeking an experienced operations leader to join our team as Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering for Launch Team Readiness, West. This role leads the readiness function for the weastern half of the dock business, owning the customer journey from pre-sales readiness — technical, policy, and operational — through deployment, training, and go-live, and it is measured on the team’s outcomes rather than your own: on-time deployments, smooth launches, and confident customers.
This is a remote role. Travel of 50 to 60% is required to support customer engagements, field activities, deployments, team onsites, and company events, with heavier travel expected during periods of team growth and onboarding.
This role reports to the Director, Launch Team.
The Launch Team is the operational arm of Skydio’s dock business. We sit between the opportunity and the running program, and readiness means everything an agency needs to launch: the site, the policy and public approval behind it, the flight operation that will run it, and a clean handoff to Customer Success. We do not perform every piece of that work, but we project manage the customer to all of it and are accountable for the date.
The team is measured on time-to-launch, readiness gate adherence, deployment schedule performance, and the condition of the program at handoff. Readiness capacity is sized against dock site volume, so the function has to scale faster than headcount.
Readiness Specialists are critical members of the Skydio organization and work closely with Solutions Engineers, Deployment Engineering, Legal and Policy, and Customer Success to support successful deployments and the long-term success of Public Safety sUAS programs