Senior Technical Trainer

Summary

Join Skydio, a leading drone company, as a Technical Trainer focused on public safety customers. You will be responsible for delivering and assisting in planning, building, and leading hardware and software training, ensuring successful customer adoption of Skydio's technology. This role requires coordinating and executing both remote and in-person training events, creating training materials, and staying current with industry regulations. Success in this position demands strong technical expertise in UAS, excellent communication skills, and the ability to adapt training to diverse customer needs. The role involves collaboration with various teams and requires up to 75% travel. Skydio offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• 4+ years of UAS technical experience in public safety applications is required
• FAA Part 107 Certificate required
• Ability to travel up to 75% of the time
• Excellent written communication and presentation skills to audiences of all levels
• 2+ years of training facilitation experience is required
• 4 years related professional experience and Bachelor’s degree; or equivalent combination of education and experience

Responsibilities

• Coordinate, execute, and track remote and in-person training events to teach customers about Skydio’s technology stack and ensure successful customer implementation
• Be a UAS industry and regulatory/Part 107 SME to lead customers through training while ensuring compliance with FAA, state, and local guidelines
• Review and create training content and material as needed
• Leverage your UAS experience and ability to learn quickly to become a Skydio SME
• Leverage our Learning Management System (LMS) and other remote content delivery, and train the trainer to provide instruction to many organizations
• Leverage your expert organizational skills to identify risks, dependencies, or resource shortages
• Work cross-functionally with Go-to-Market teams to understand customer use cases and adapt training to maximize value to the customer
• Work cross-functionally with Training Content, Product, and Engineering teams to keep all training material updated with the most current HW/SW versions
• General support of Go-to-Market and business activities as required

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading training of UAS or other robotic systems with public safety customers is preferred
• Bring a strong background in one technical area (examples: UAV systems, radio systems, software, security, prototyping, UI/UX design.)

Benefits

In addition to base salary, Skydio full-time employees are eligible to enroll in our benefit plans and take advantage of a variety of incentives and stipends