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Quindar is seeking a Mission Project Lead to embed with engineering teams and drive day-to-day execution of U.S. Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and Civil mission efforts. You will work closely with engineers, product owners, and Technical Program Managers to maintain organizational discipline, surface and resolve blockers, track tasking, and ensure engineering execution aligns with program milestones and commitments.
In this role, you'll provide the execution coordination that enables engineering teams to move quickly while maintaining clear priorities and consistently delivering against mission objectives. You are highly organized, proactive, and comfortable operating close to technical work.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate day-to-day engineering execution against program priorities, milestones, and near-term objectives
- Maintain visibility into active work, owners, dependencies, due dates, and completion criteria; ensure tasking reflects actual engineering progress
- Facilitate planning sessions, stand-ups, milestone check-ins, and retrospectives; translate program priorities into clear, actionable work
- Proactively identify and drive resolution of technical, resource, dependency, and coordination blockers
- Track engineering execution against program milestones and deliverables; identify schedule risk early and coordinate recovery actions
- Provide concise internal status updates on progress, risks, blockers, and upcoming milestones; maintain supporting execution artifacts
Quindar operates in the space systems and government contracting space, working on cutting-edge missions with direct customer impact. The company emphasizes work-life balance (15 days required PTO, unlimited additional), comprehensive health insurance with 100% employee coverage, 4% 401(k) matching, quarterly wellness benefits, and annual 4-day company offsites.
Requirements:
- Active security clearance or ability to obtain U.S. Government security clearance; Top Secret/SCI eligibility preferred
- 3+ years of experience supporting software engineering, technical programs, mission operations, systems engineering, or similar execution-focused environment
- Experience working with software development teams and familiarity with iterative/Agile development practices
- Experience with space systems, ground software, or U.S. Government programs preferred
- Strong organizational skills managing multiple priorities, dependencies, and deadlines in fast-moving environments
- Highly inquisitive and detail-oriented; able to identify gaps, ask the right questions, and drive open actions and blockers to closure
- Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable coordinating across engineering, product, and program teams
- ITAR Compliance: Must be U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, Refugee, or Asylee, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from U.S. Department of State
