# Project Manager, Demo (R4836)

**Company:** [Shield AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/shield-ai)
**Location:** Dallas, TX
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $88k – $130k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Project Management, microsoft project, smartsheet, Microsoft Office, itar, ear, pmp, logistics management, Risk Management, stakeholder coordination
**Posted:** 2026-04-21

> Drive planning, coordination, and execution of complex demonstration programs and sustainment logistics for unmanned aerial systems. Manage schedules, budgets, risks, customer support, regulatory compliance, and cross-functional teams to ensure on-time, high-impact technology deployments.

## Job Description

## What you'll do

### Demo Project Manager Tasks
- Generate demonstration plans
- Conduct demonstration event logistics planning
- Coordinate with Go-To-Market leads and customers
- Establish and maintain project action plans and risk metrics
- Generate and maintain project schedules
- Coordinate participation of personnel for demonstration events
- Establish and lead a consistent cadence of well-organized, well-facilitated, and effective meetings, including driving all preparation and follow up activities
- Manage project budgets
- Manage and organize customer correspondence
- Coordinate import/export regulatory compliance – ITAR and EAR
- Facilitate fuel availability and procurement
- Review, understand, and comply with proposals and contracts
- Drive subcontractor performance as applicable

### Assistant Program Manager for Logistics Tasks
- Act as the key point of contact for the sustainment portion of programs
- Drive program execution of Engineering Change Order (ECO) implementation tasks in the company’s Product Lifecycle Management Software
- Ensure Service Bulletins are released and disseminated to customers, and track their incorporation into fielded hardware
- Provide continuous, real-time readiness tracking of customer hardware (aircraft, payloads, ground support equipment, etc)
- Serve as the programmatic point of contact for customer requested warranty and non-warranty repairs, to include RMAs to vendors
- Serve as Deployed Operations Field Service Representatives primary point of contact within the program office
- Represent customer programs in managing Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortage issues
- Maintain real-time awareness of customer hardware inventory levels, both within Shield AI’s facilities as well as at customer sites. Coordinate replenishment at intervals appropriate to customer usage rates
- Ensure all customers have access to the most up-to-date technical manuals and bulletins applicable to their hardware configuration
- Provide customer feedback to internal teams regarding maintainability and sustainability issues

### General Tasks
- Deliver proven, exceptional, and reliable performance in support of customer/end-user’s mission through flawless project management
- Effectively collaborate, motivate, and lead relevant stakeholders to successfully deliver early, under budget, and with exceptional technical performance
- Complete critical path analyses including the evaluation of potential means to accelerate the pace or mitigate identified risks
- Identify potential bottlenecks or delays in projects and drive efforts to ensure projects stay on schedule
- Partner with leadership to guide prioritization of projects and utilization of resources
- Support an environment where accountability and program execution excellence are core

## Required qualifications
- 4+ years of Project Management experience, including managing schedules, budgets, resources, and events
- Experience with scheduling tools such as Microsoft Project or Smartsheet
- Significant experience and excellent skills with Microsoft Office suite
- Excellent skills in leadership, time management, organization, and team management
- Theoretical and practical project management knowledge
- Application of project management techniques and tools
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally and domestically as needed
- A demonstrated record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to a high standard, and being kind to others

## Preferred qualifications
- Experience in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles
- Familiarity with aviation product delivery, maintenance, sustainment, and field support
- Undergraduate degree in engineering or business
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

## Similar roles

- [Project Manager, Fleet Asset Management](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/85ceced0-5169-4212-9b7a-441c6271a546) - Shield AI - Dallas, TX - $88k – $130k/yr
- [Technical Project Manager](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/1fd951ad-9ea1-43e3-abe5-187de55b22ef) - Vibes - Chicago, IL - $90k – $100k/yr
- [Technical Project Manager](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/084a608c-deb5-4620-a3bb-62eeae7e0b8d) - DISQO - Los Angeles, CA - $90k – $110k/yr
- [Program Manager, Claude Corps](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/47ec0ea9-69dc-4bbd-8d29-e071c2f2117b) - CodePath - Remote - $85k – $110k/yr
- [Professional Services Program Manager](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/771b6e50-c4c7-4929-9b09-afe560765697) - GitLab - Remote - $93k – $157k/yr

**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/f017a089-2b19-4c50-bcc8-9914ced33f53
**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/f017a089-2b19-4c50-bcc8-9914ced33f53