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title: 'Regional Field Manager (Central/South America) at WindBorne Systems'
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# Regional Field Manager (Central/South America) at WindBorne Systems

- **Company:** WindBorne Systems
- **Location:** Central/south, United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-09-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/windborne-systems/8c4cf6b1-2d9c-4668-8fd5-043c30cab0de

## Job description

WindBorne Systems is supercharging weather forecasts with a unique proprietary data source: a global constellation of next-generation smart weather balloons targeting the most critical atmospheric data. We design, manufacture, and operate our own balloons, using the data they collect to generate otherwise unattainable weather intelligence. Our mission is to eliminate weather uncertainty, and in the process help humanity adapt to climate change, be that predicting hurricanes or speeding the adoption of renewables. We are building a future in which the planet is instrumented by thousands of our microballoons, eliminating gaps in our understanding of the planet and giving people and businesses the information they need to make critical decisions. The founding team of Stanford engineers was named Forbes 2019 30 under 30 and is backed by top-tier investors, including Khosla Ventures and Footwork VC. We’re hiring someone to manage field operations in Central and South America. You will manage a large team of launch operators spread across the region. The role is hands-on and includes both travel and outdoor fieldwork on evenings, weekdays, and weekends. You are the field extension of our Head of Launch. While strategy and infrastructure are built at HQ, you execute it on the ground — standing up new launch sites, training local contractors, building the physical sites, and tracking site and operator performance.

## Responsibilities

- Manage an international team of launch contractors, resolving performance issues, interpersonal complications, and other management challenges
- Handle complex international logistics: customs clearance, equipment shipping, and vendor sourcing
- Train and certify local launch contractors on operations, equipment, and safety protocols
- Maintain meticulous records of site configs, contractor certifications, and equipment inventories
- Contribute to SOPs, site setup guides, and training materials to make operations faster and more replicable
- Travel across the region (10-25% of time): including regular travel to regional launch locations to resolve issues or set set up new launch sites, and annually to our Redwood City workspace
- Launch high-altitude weather balloons and manage compressed gas equipment in strict compliance with safety protocols
- Adapt to varying conditions and work well under ambiguity

## Skills and Qualifications

- Bilingual English & Spanish fluency required
- Willing to work long or unusual hours to support your team’s needs
- 5+ years experience with operational field work in Central and South America
- 2+ years of supervisory or management experience, including training and onboarding new employees
- Experience creating training programs, SOPs, and other documentation in low-structure environments
- Experience scaling logistics operations
- Highly organized
- Excellent communicator — clear written reports, sharp field observations, effective cross-cultural rapport
- Comfortable operating independently for extended periods without direct supervision
- Able to lift up to 50 lbs and work outdoors in varied conditions in remote locations (up to 95F/35C, down to 14F/-10 C)

Salary The base salary range for this role is $70,000 - $110,000 USD (converted to local currency). Final compensation packages are dynamically adjusted based on the candidate's localized geographic market. We are considering a range of backgrounds and experience levels for this position.

## Benefits

Benefits vary based on the employee’s country of employment and may include:

- Paid time off in accordance with the applicable country policy
- Eligibility for stock options, subject to local laws and plan terms

Location Preference will be given to candidates currently residing in Central or South America.

## About WindBorne Systems

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: WindBorne Systems designs, builds, and operates the world’s largest constellation of autonomous, long‑duration weather balloons to capture unique in‑situ atmospheric data and deliver AI‑powered weather forecasts.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A – total funding $26M)
- **Headquarters**: Redwood City (Redwood Shores), California, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: John Dean (CEO), Andrey Sushko (CPO), Kai Marshland (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Aviation & Aerospace / Weather Intelligence
- **Target customers**: B2B, B2G – governments, utilities, airlines, renewable energy operators, and commercial enterprises with weather‑sensitive operations
- **Mission**: Build a planetary nervous system that covers 100% of the Earth, providing humanity with unprecedented environmental data and predictions to mitigate the impacts of weather uncertainty and climate change [windbornesystems.com/mission](https://windbornesystems.com/mission)

## Products & Services
- **Atlas Balloon Constellation**: A global fleet of long‑duration smart weather balloons that autonomously control altitude and provide ~50 vertical profiles per balloon, reaching remote oceans and polar regions [windbornesystems.com](https://www.windbornesystems.com/)
- **WeatherMesh**: A proprietary deep‑learning forecast model that fuses Atlas balloon data with other sources to produce forecasts that surpass the accuracy of both physics‑based and other AI models [windbornesystems.com](https://www.windbornesystems.com/)
- **Data‑as‑a‑Service (DaaS)**: Access to real‑time and historical atmospheric profiles from the balloon constellation, sold to governments and commercial partners
- **SaaS (API)**: AI‑based weather forecasts delivered via API, enabling customers to build actionable insights and automations

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $26M across 6 rounds (including a $15M Series A, per news reports, and a $5M venture round led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in December 2024) [linkedin.com/company/windborne](https://www.linkedin.com/company/windborne)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Pear VC, Khosla Ventures (seed), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (venture round); partnerships with U.S. and international governments, private‑sector companies, and philanthropic organizations [windbornesystems.com](https://www.windbornesystems.com/)
- **Growth Signals**: 72 employees (+75.5% YoY); 38 active job postings (+1167% YoY); operations in 8 countries (US, Canada, Poland, Singapore, South Korea, Nigeria, Sweden, Kenya); hundreds of balloons launched per month with global scaling underway [linkedin.com/company/windborne](https://www.linkedin.com/company/windborne)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary data moat**: In‑situ atmospheric data from regions (oceans, poles) where other sensors are scarce – a key input for improving forecast accuracy.
- **Vertically integrated hardware & software**: In‑house design, manufacturing, and AI model development, all based in the USA.
- **First‑mover scale**: Only company operating a long‑duration, controlled‑altitude balloon constellation at this scale (Atlas).
- **Proven model performance**: WeatherMesh consistently outperforms traditional physics‑based and other AI forecast models, validated by government and commercial partners [windbornesystems.com](https://www.windbornesystems.com/)

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the Atlas constellation to permanently close atmospheric data gaps pole‑to‑pole.
- Expand federal and commercial sales (DaaS and SaaS), especially to utilities and the U.S. government.
- Advance WeatherMesh accuracy and develop new use cases in aviation routing, renewable energy grid optimization, and disaster response [windbornesystems.com/mission](https://www.windbornesystems.com/mission)

## Why Work Here
- **Planetary impact**: Every line of code and hardware design directly improves weather prediction, saves lives, and advances climate science.
- **Engineering culture**: “The Loonie Way” – high agency, obsessive problem‑solving, building from scratch, and iterating relentlessly. The team includes alumni from Project Loon, Stanford, and top aerospace/tech companies [windbornesystems.com/careers](https://windbornesystems.com/careers).
- **Hard problems**: Autonomous systems in extreme environments, real‑time data pipelines, and cutting‑edge AI.
- **Work environment**: Based in Redwood Shores, CA; technology is invented, designed, and manufactured in the US. Roles are likely on‑site (many engineering and operations positions specify location). Offices are collaborative and mission‑focused.
- **Growth**: 38 open roles across engineering, operations, business development, and more – a fast‑scaling startup with multi‑year runway [windbornesystems.com/open-roles](https://windbornesystems.com/open-roles).

## Sources
1. [windbornesystems.com](https://www.windbornesystems.com/)
2. [windbornesystems.com/careers](https://windbornesystems.com/careers)
3. [windbornesystems.com/mission](https://windbornesystems.com/mission)
4. [linkedin.com/company/windborne](https://www.linkedin.com/company/windborne)
5. [windbornesystems.com/open-roles](https://windbornesystems.com/open-roles)

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