Director of Assurance

Director Of Assurance

SkyGrid, a Boeing Company, exists to open the sky for autonomous flight. Based in Austin, Texas, SkyGrid builds ground-based high-assurance third-party services to enable the safe operations and airspace integration of highly automated and autonomous aircraft. SkyGrid also acts as a key operational nexus for advanced air mobility, integrating and managing data, infrastructure, access, and traffic to support seamless and efficient air traffic services.

SkyGrid is looking for a Director Of Assurance to lead our assurance, quality, safety, reliability, maintainability, cybersecurity, and certification efforts. Reporting directly to the CEO, this role ensures our operations and products meet all regulatory and certification standards.

You will define regulatory strategies, manage relationships with certification authorities and standards bodies, and serve as the company's primary representative on assurance and compliance. The ideal candidate brings deep aerospace or aviation experience across assurance, certification and safety, with strong knowledge of systems like QMS, SMS, and SecMS, and standards such as AS9100 and NIST 800-53.

As the owner of all assurance and certification processes, you will partner with Engineering, Operations, and Program teams to define, implement, and enforce standards across SkyGrid and its supply base. This is a senior, high-impact role with significant influence in the rapidly evolving advanced air mobility (AAM) sector.

Performance Objectives

• Develop and institutionalize QMS, SMS, SecMS within the first year.
• Fully integrate certification, quality and cyber roadmaps to enable timely product approval.
• Conduct monthly reviews and reports as applicable.
• Ensure Cyber, Safety, Supplier, and Quality corporate and product assurance is identified and reached.
• Ensure compliance at the product / program levels.
• Manage teams and ensure staffing needs are identified.
• Manage / report assurance and certification risks and ensure they are escalated for resolution promptly.
• Streamline and align shared requirements and processes across the organization.
• Lead SkyGrid to achieve AS9100 certification.
• Shape the Quality department for future growth.

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