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Engineering Program Manager

Skylo

Skylo

Operations
Espoo, Finland
Posted on Jan 17, 2025

About Skylo

Skylo is a global Non-Terrestrial Network service provider based in Mountain View, CA, offering a service that allows smartphone and IoT cellular devices to connect directly over existing satellites.

Skylo’s direct-to-device service is now live across four continents, with more than 50 million square kilometers of coverage, in partnership with multiple satellite operators, mobile network operators (MNOs), Tier-1 chipset makers, and OEMs. Devices connected over satellite are managed and served by Skylo's commercial NTN vRAN, featuring a 3GPP standards-based cloud-native base station and core. Skylo provides anywhere, anytime connectivity solutions that seamlessly roams between terrestrial and satellite networks. Our focus is on enabling connected services for people outdoors and connected workflows across three main verticals: mass-market consumer devices, automotive, and industrial IoT.

This role is located in Espoo, Finland where we are onsite 3 days a week in office.

Summary Of How You Will Impact Skylo

Skylo Technologies seeks a highly motivated Engineering Program Manager to lead and track engineering projects in telecommunications, including RAN, Core Networks, and external initiatives. The role involves managing cross-functional teams, collaborating with vendors and stakeholders, and proactively addressing potential challenges. This individual will also communicate detailed project statuses and must have a strong technical background in networking and telecommunications.

How You Will Contribute

  • Oversee the day-to-day project and engineering program activities and their status, drive their completion from the planning stage to completion, ensuring projects are delivered on time.
  • Serve as the primary contact for external customers and vendors regarding project statuses, issues, and deliverables.
  • Drive non-engineering tasks such as hosting meetings, addressing queries from engineering, sales, vendors, and product management teams.
  • Escalate issues to the appropriate engineering teams and ensure they clearly understand priorities.
  • Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, and success criteria.
  • Work cross-functionally to develop and refine project timelines., product requirements, company defined OKRs,
  • Conduct post-project evaluations to gather learnings, retrospective feedback, and implement process improvements.
  • Effective upward communication and timely escalation are essential.

What We Look For

  • Bachelors degree in technical degree such as Telecommunications, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
  • 5+ years of experience in project and engineering program management, focused on telecommunications or wireless industry.
  • Additional expertise in projects across Core, RAN and other telecom technologies.
  • Proficiency in waterfall, scrum, and agile methodologies.
  • Experience with program management tools such as JIRA.
  • Demonstrated ability to work with external stakeholders (e.g., vendors, clients, network operators, chipset manufacturers).
  • Comfortable in fast-paced, dynamic environments, adapting quickly to changing priorities
  • Strong communication, documentation and presentation skills.

What We Offer

With employees working across three continents, Skylo is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. Our worldwide and inclusive culture encourages a flexible approach to work, and we also offer an attractive range benefits such as:

  • Competitive compensation packages including a stock option based equity program
  • Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, retirement plan
  • Monthly allowances for wellness and education reimbursement
  • A generous time off policy, holidays, and the opportunity to temporarily work abroad
  • Once in a lifetime opportunity to be a part of developing and running world’s first commercial, live direct-to-device satellite network and service
  • Access to world-class team and talent across tech domains: software, hardware, chipsets, telecom, satellite and network virtualization
  • Open, transparent, inclusive culture that blends the Silicon Valley, Nordic and South Asia characteristics

EEO Statement
Skylo is an equal-opportunity employer and we celebrate diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, parent or caregiver status, political affiliation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. Please let us know if you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability.

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