Contract Execution Specialist

Summary

Join WindBorne Systems, a company revolutionizing weather forecasting with AI and smart weather balloons, as a Contract Execution Specialist. You will be a key member of the Growth Team, ensuring successful contract execution and customer satisfaction. This role requires strong organizational skills, technical understanding, and excellent communication. You will manage multiple projects, coordinate with various teams (business, operations, meteorology, finance), and drive customer relationships. The position offers the opportunity to contribute to a mission-driven company focused on climate change adaptation. Remote work may be possible for the right candidate.

Requirements

• Obsession with detail and organization
• Enthusiasm for technical details, whether the physics of weather balloons or nuances of AI modeling, and becoming the go-to expert on all things to contract management
• Project management experience and particular wizardry with managing multiple projects at once–coordinating chaos is your superpower!
• Dynamic interpersonal skills and the ability to adapt in the moment to customer needs and requests
• Professional-level written and verbal communication expertise
• High-level proficiency with MS Office or Google Workspace documents, spreadsheets, and slides

Responsibilities

• Be the glue that drives contract execution, ensuring deliverables, timelines, and technical team engagement stay on track
• Lead customer meetings to ensure satisfaction, build technical understanding, and to align on future deliverables
• Liaise with external customer end users to scope contract activity, and with technical internal stakeholders to ensure feasibility and successful execution
• Define and implement structured processes for contract lifecycle management, including organizing meetings across Business, Operations and Meteorology teams
• Own the propagation of business development strategy in post-purchase stages
• Coordinate with Finance team to create and submit invoices through various customer systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with government or commercial contract management
• Prior experience at an early-stage startup
• Prior experience in sales

Benefits

This role can be remote for the right candidate