MissionOperationsLead

About Poseidon Aerospace: Poseidon Aerospace builds and operates unmanned planes for commercial logistics and defense missions. Our two full-size fixed-wing platforms - Heron, a seaplane, and Egret, a STOL aircraft - can carry two tons of payload over a thousand nautical miles. We are headquartered in San Francisco with satellite offices in Washington, DC and Maine. About the role: Poseidon both builds and operates its aircraft, which means a won contract becomes a real mission in the field. The Mission Operations Lead is the owner of that transition. After the growth team wins the work, you take it from signature to after-action: the demonstrations and events, the live customer missions, the airworthiness and flight clearances, and the logistics, infrastructure, training, and reporting that surround them. The role is deliberately broad. It pairs the hands-on engineering needed to make hardware work in austere conditions with the program management needed to run a mission flawlessly under pressure. You will work in lockstep with the growth team that wins the missions and the engineering team that builds the aircraft, owning the path from hangar to field and feeding what you learn in the field back into what Poseidon sells and builds. If you can operate the aircraft yourself, that is a plus. What you'll do: Mission execution and field ownership - Lead the end-to-end execution of customer demonstrations, exercises, and live missions, and serve as Poseidon's primary on-site representative during field operations. - Be the single person accountable for everything that deploys to the field and how it performs, identifying and resolving mission-critical issues in time-sensitive situations. - Own contract deliverables in the field, including the development and implementation of measures of performance and effectiveness. Airworthiness, clearances, and regulatory orchestration - Secure interim flight clearances, airworthiness releases, and certificates of authorization for