Deputy Program Manager

Matter Intelligence • El Segundo, CA

8d • Onsite

About The Position

Matter is hiring a Deputy Program Manager to help drive execution across complex sensing, airborne, and space programs. Reporting to Tim Clark, this role will turn program objectives into coordinated schedules, decisions, risk management, and clear communication across teams.

Requirements

• Experience coordinating complex technical programs with multiple disciplines and dependencies.
• Strong planning, organization, written communication, and follow-through.
• Ability to understand technical context well enough to connect schedules, risks, requirements, and decisions.
• Comfort operating at both detailed working level and concise leadership-review level.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with aerospace, defense, hardware development, flight programs, or other regulated technical environments.
• Experience supporting customer, government, or partner reporting and milestone reviews.
• Familiarity with systems engineering, configuration control, verification, or supply-chain execution.

Responsibilities

• Maintain integrated program plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, and action tracking.
• Coordinate engineering, operations, supply chain, test, and customer-facing workstreams around shared program outcomes.
• Prepare program reviews and concise status reporting that surface decisions, tradeoffs, and required follow-through.
• Support requirements, configuration, verification, and delivery processes with clear ownership and traceability.
• Identify execution gaps early and work with owners to resolve blockers or escalate decisions.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation based on experience
• Early-stage equity package
• 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
• Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed