Lead Program Manager (Avionics Surveillance)

Location: Phoenix, AZ; on-site

Company

hirify.global designs, engineers, and manufactures certified avionics systems for safety-critical commercial and military aviation operations.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end program strategy, cost, schedule, and technical performance for multiple avionics development programs.
• Establish Integrated Master Plans and Schedules spanning hardware, software, systems engineering, and certification.
• Drive Earned Value Management, variance analysis, recovery planning, risk management, and corrective actions.
• Lead PDR, CDR, TRR, FCA, PCA, customer reviews, Integrated Product Teams, and Technical Interchange Meetings.
• Coordinate cross-functional execution across engineering, testing, certification, airworthiness, suppliers, and subcontractors.
• Mentor program managers and improve program standards, processes, and execution practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Technical Management, or a related discipline.
• At least 10 years of progressive program management, product line leadership, or business leadership experience in aerospace, avionics, or a similarly regulated industry.
• Experience owning business performance for fielded products, including margin management, production support, customer support, and issue resolution.
• Strong financial acumen covering forecasting, revenue management, margin analysis, cost control, and business cases.
• Experience with program planning, risk management, performance monitoring, recovery execution, and matrixed leadership.
• Excellent executive communication and customer engagement skills.

Nice to have

• MBA or advanced degree in Business, Engineering, or Technical Management.
• Experience with avionics, surveillance systems, safety-critical aerospace products, or large-scale certification and production-transition programs.
• PMP certification or equivalent program management credential.
• Knowledge of obsolescence management, repair strategy, spares planning, sustaining engineering, FAA, EASA, military airworthiness, or aerospace regulatory environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a highly regulated, safety-critical aerospace environment.
• Collaborate across engineering, contracts, legal, finance, export compliance, customers, suppliers, and strategic partners.
• Employment includes pre-employment background checks and substance abuse testing where allowed by law.
• hirify.global is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and an E-Verify employer.