Program Manager, Marauder

Saronic Technologies•Austin, TX

24d•Onsite

About The Position

Saronic Technologies is seeking a Program Manager to own the execution and delivery of Marauder, our 180-foot Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV) produced at our Franklin, LA shipyard. This is a flagship large-scale production program, and the Program Manager is accountable for its cost, schedule, scope, and customer outcomes from contract award through delivery and sustainment. Marauder is built at production scale and fielded across a wide and evolving range of complex missions. The Program Manager must pair deep expertise in large-scale shipbuilding and rate production with an instinct for modular kits, payloads, and mission-package integration—understanding how a common hull is configured, re-configured, and sustained to meet diverse customer needs. This role owns the balance between production throughput and mission flexibility. The Program Manager serves as the primary customer-facing owner of the program, partnering closely with the internal Saronic growth, engineering, production and quality teams. The right candidate brings the customer fluency to manage government stakeholders and contracts, the technical acumen to make technical decisions aligned to the customer needs and contract requirements, and the programmatic discipline to deliver a large, complex platform at scale.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Naval Architecture, or a related technical field.
10+ years of experience in program management of large-scale production, shipbuilding, or complex defense development programs.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to interface confidently with technical and non-technical audiences.
Demonstrated ownership of cost, schedule, and scope on programs of significant size and complexity.
Proven ability to manage government or defense customers, contracts, and deliverables.
Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time.
Secret security clearance eligibility required, active preferred.

Nice To Haves

Program Management experience of Unmanned Surface Vessels highly desirable.
Experience managing production at rate, including supply chain, build sequencing, and delivery of large or complex hardware systems highly desirable.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end execution of the Marauder program, holding accountability for cost, schedule, scope, and quality from award through delivery and sustainment.
Serve as a leader and owner of the customer contract, deliverables, milestones, CDRLs, and contractual obligations.
Build and maintain the integrated program plan, aligning productions scheduled, engineering milestones, and integration timelines to customer commitments.
Drive risk and opportunity management across the program, escalating and resolving issues that threaten cost, schedule, or performance.
Report program health, forecasts, and decisions to Saronic leadership and customer stakeholders.
Partner with the Franklin production team to plan and execute rate production of a 180-foot ASV, from long-lead procurement through hull construction, outfitting, and delivery.
Monitor build sequencing, work breakdown, and production milestones to protect throughput while meeting quality and acceptance criteria.
Monitor and mitigate production risks—supply chain, labor, tooling, and facility constraints—unique to large-vessel shipbuilding.
Coordinate with Quality and Production to ensure build configurations and acceptance events meet customer and contractual standards.
Own the configuration strategy for Marauder across a variety of mission packages, kits, and payloads on a common production hull.
Partner with Mission Package Integration Managers to plan integration of bespoke and commercial-off-the-shelf kits into the production and delivery flow.
Balance production standardization against mission-driven variance, protecting throughput while enabling flexibility.
Ensure integration timelines, dependencies, and configuration baselines are reflected in the master program plan.
Capture mission-package lessons learned and feed them back into production and product roadmaps.
Serve as the primary point of contact for the customer, managing expectations, requirements, and relationships across the program lifecycle.
Elicit and clarify evolving mission needs, translating them into actionable program and technical direction.
Lead program reviews, delivery events, and technical exchanges with government stakeholders, operators, and evaluators.
Deliver clear, concise program updates and after-action reporting to leadership and customer audiences.
Direct and synchronize a cross-functional program team spanning Production, Engineering, Software, Mission Services, and Forward Deployed Engineering.
Partner with Technical Program Managers to align technical execution with programmatic commitments.
Make and defend tradeoff decisions across capability, schedule, cost, and risk.
Drive disciplined configuration management across vessels, kits, payloads, and software versions.

Benefits

Medical Insurance: Comprehensive health insurance plans covering a range of services
Dental and Vision Insurance: Coverage for routine dental check-ups, orthodontics, and vision care
Time Off: Generous PTO and Holidays
Parental Leave: Paid maternity and paternity leave to support new parents
Competitive Salary: Industry-standard salaries with opportunities for performance-based bonuses
Retirement Plan: 401(k) plan with company match
Stock Options: Equity options to give employees a stake in the company’s success
Life and Disability Insurance: Basic life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage
Pet Insurance: Discounted pet insurance options including 24/7 Telehealth helpline
Additional Perks: Free lunch benefit and unlimited free drinks and snacks in the office