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title: 'Technical Project Manager, Constellation Ops Team at WindBorne Systems'
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# Technical Project Manager, Constellation Ops Team at WindBorne Systems

- **Company:** WindBorne Systems
- **Location:** Redwood City, CA
- **Compensation:** $110k–$150k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/windborne-systems/f2091faa-aab1-400f-9a78-b89b5c254104/application

> Lead project tracking and coordination across hardware, software, and operations to turn exploratory work into durable processes. Manage cross-functional commitments, drive projects to completion, and ensure accountability for deadlines and deliverables.

## 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, whether that be 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 Constellation Team keeps our fleet flying and decides where it goes. Day to day, most of our work centers on the 1% of edge cases—the novel, the weird, the unpredictable—and serves two functions: it’s a testing ground where edge cases surface bugs and validate new capabilities, and it’s forward-deployed customer work where new features get demoed to and studied directly with customers in a hands-on way.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

We’re hiring someone to make sure that all the things we learn from our weird edge-case explorations stick.

As an early-stage startup, we can carry out one-off projects to explore new possibilities and push the bounds on what our technology and operations are capable of. As we scale, we need someone to lead the charge on turning that energy into durable progress. We want quick fixes to become validated capabilities, and customer demos to become repeatable workflows.

You’ll be the person who knows the state of everything. At our scale, projects span hardware, software, manufacturing, and field deployment, and things move fast enough that good work gets dropped. Your job is to track every commitment across the organization, triage what matters against whatever’s on fire, drive each thing to completion, and document it so it survives the next crisis and the next hire.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Run project tracking for every project across the organization, so anyone can see what’s in flight, who owns it, and whether it’s on schedule.
- Brief the Head of Constellation on project status and deadlines; turn direction into tracked owners and milestones.
- Run the weekly performance meetings: capture action items per person across parallel workstreams, set deadlines, and follow up until they close.
- Know whether we’re meeting our obligations—contracts, external deliverables, and internal shipments across the operational stack (manufacturing, launch, flight, constellation), where we’re often our own customer.
- Coordinate who needs what and when when one internal team builds for another or for an exercise.
- Turn flight data into clear statistics on balloon performance and what’s driving failures.
- Protect the important-but-not-urgent work (postmortems, process fixes) that gets buried when everything’s on fire.

## WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

- You’re 1 to 10, not 0 to 1. You turn one-off prototypes into consistent processes and systems.
- You follow up relentlessly and warmly. People accept accountability from you because you’re reliable, direct, and invested in their success.
- You finish things, and you make them durable. A loose end bothers you until it’s closed. There are a lot of balls in the air at any time—you’re someone who will track each one, drive it to completion, and write documentation to ensure it endures.
- You’re genuinely curious about how the world works. The job involves balloons, atmospheric science, radio, airspace, and defense tech. You don’t need a background in any of these, but you should find them interesting enough to want to learn. You don’t have to do technical work, but you have the background and fluency to understand the nuances of deeply technical projects.
- You’re comfortable with uncertainty and shifting priorities. Procedures evolve, hardware changes, customers reprioritize. The trap for someone who loves structure is getting frustrated when nothing stays still; we’re looking for someone who will keep things on track even as they’re constantly shifting.
- You’ll tell us when we’re wrong.

## SALARY

$110,000–$150,000

We are considering a range of backgrounds and experience levels for this position and will adjust our offers accordingly to remain competitive with market rates.

## LOCATION

1600 Bridge Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA. In-person required.

## ELIGIBILITY

Due to the sensitive nature of some of our work, this position is restricted to American citizens only.

## 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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