Skylight

👥 51-100Product DesignConsultingGovernmentInformation Technology💼 Private Company
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Skylight is a company focused on innovative design and engineering solutions, actively seeking talent for various roles in engineering, service design, design research, user experience, and management.

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📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 170000.0 - 203000.0 USD per year

🔍 Software Development

  • Experience with system administration for Linux and Windows Server and skilled in managing Azure environments (ExpressRoute, Virtual Networks, hybrid cloud setups).
  • Comfortable using Azure Security Center, NSGs, and Azure Firewall, plus proficiency with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.
  • You’ve worked with Azure networking, ensuring seamless data migration across cloud environments and minimizing downtime.
  • Manage cloud infrastructure.
  • Ensure security and compliance.
  • Automate and streamline.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot.
  • Collaborate with teams.
  • Document and improve.

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📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 170000.0 - 203000.0 USD per year

🔍 Software Development

  • Experience architecting solutions in AWS and managing Infrastructure as Code.
  • Comfortable using AWS tooling to configure infrastructures for monitoring, metrics, alerting, logging, and compliance.
  • You know your way around a VPC and are ready to support a seamless data migration across cloud environments while minimizing downtime.
  • You communicate clearly with diverse teams and stakeholders, proactively resolve incidents, and approach challenges with a solution-focused mindset.
  • Architect and manage cloud infrastructure.
  • Design, configure, and maintain AWS resources across several accounts within an organization.
  • Ensure security and compliance.
  • Automate and streamline.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot.
  • Collaborate with teams.
  • Document and improve.

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📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 170000.0 - 203000.0 USD per year

🔍 Government Services

  • Understand lean product principles and how to apply them (e.g., minimum viable product) at various stages of the product life cycle in order to mitigate risk, validate assumptions, and amplify learning
  • Can develop a product strategy that is informed by an understanding of the problem to be solved, prioritizes outcomes over feature sets, and establishes the direction of the product over time (e.g., product roadmap), including success criteria
  • Ability to execute the product strategy by breaking down the product’s scope into usable chunks of value that can be realized sooner rather than later, creating and maintaining a prioritized backlog with validated user stories, and facilitating team ceremonies over the course of the product’s iterations
  • Understand how to engage in the process of human-centered design in order to better inform product direction
  • Ability to collaborate with folks outside of your discipline, such as researchers, designers, engineers, and others, in order to get things done
  • Ability to manage clients and stakeholders in a way that builds trust, alignment, and healthy environments for individuals and teams
  • Understand the merits of different software development methodologies (e.g., agile, lean) and how to put them into practice
  • Ability to work successfully within a professional services environment (e.g., can communicate effectively with clients)
  • Passionate about creating better public outcomes through great government services
  • Lead a cross-functional team of researchers, designers, engineers, and subject matter experts to build and ship high-impact products and services
  • Translate needs from users and government partners into a product strategy, including vision, objectives, measures of success, product roadmap, and product backlog
  • Manage the direction, scope, and priorities of the product initiatives, building from user research to full implementation
  • Write user stories, prioritize stories, and build release plans
  • Facilitate team ceremonies such as planning meetings, stakeholder syncs, and retrospectives
  • Draw on data and feedback to inform the product strategy and roadmap
  • Work in close partnership with government teams to transfer digital skills and product knowledge throughout the course of the project
  • Creatively navigate bureaucratic challenges, paving the way for more intuitive processes in the future
  • Collaborate with government partners to ensure compatibility with existing processes and technologies

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📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 170000.0 - 203000.0 USD per year

🔍 Software Development

  • Ability to write clean, working, and reusable code
  • Can produce high-quality code by adhering to good practices such as automated testing
  • Familiar with how to build secure, compliant software and defend against common vulnerabilities
  • Understand the different pieces of software systems and how to fit them together, while keeping performance, reliability, and availability in mind
  • Ability to take on data engineering responsibilities as needed
  • Understand the importance of always putting users at the center of your work, including thinking through the impact and implications of any code that you write
  • Ability to work successfully within a professional services environment (e.g., can communicate effectively with clients)
  • Passionate about creating better public outcomes through great government services
  • A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values
  • Ability to travel for work from time to time
  • Engineer a software product as part of a cross-functional team, which includes user experience researchers and designers, product managers, engineers, and other functional specialists
  • Achieve technical excellence by advocating for and adhering to lean-agile engineering principles and practices such as API-first design, simple design, continuous integration, version control, and automated testing
  • Select and use the right tools, frameworks, languages, and technologies for the job, with a preference for open-source solutions
  • Analyze systems to identify technical debt, instability, unreliability, and other opportunities for improvement, as well as design, document, and communicate solutions

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🔥 Proposal Manager
Posted 3 months ago

📍 U.S.

🧭 Full-Time

💸 140000.0 - 200000.0 USD per year

🔍 Digital consultancy

  • Proven experience managing proposals for government solicitations (federal, state, or local).
  • Familiarity with modern digital delivery proposals including human-centered design and product management.
  • Experience developing cost or pricing volumes and coordinating with finance.
  • Strong organizational skills and compliance tracking ability.
  • Openness to using AI/automation with a willingness to adapt.
  • Excellent communication skills to write compelling narratives and coordinate stakeholders.
  • Ability to lead teams under tight deadlines.
  • Passion for improving public outcomes through government services.
  • Manage Skylight’s end-to-end proposal operations for various solicitation types.
  • Develop and refine high-quality proposal management practices, including templates and compliance checklists.
  • Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely, accurate inputs on narratives and cost proposals.
  • Adopt AI or automation tools for data handling and compliance tracking.
  • Maintain an organized repository of proposal content for quick access and reuse.
  • Oversee multiple concurrent proposals while ensuring thoroughness and quality.
  • Foster a mission-driven culture valuing transparency and open communication.

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📍 U.S.

🧭 Full-Time

💸 140000.0 - 200000.0 USD per year

🔍 Digital consultancy for government services

  • Experience in machine learning or AI, with a track record of applying AI solutions.
  • Experience designing or implementing technology-driven automation workflows.
  • A collaborative mindset and ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
  • Familiarity with frameworks for building AI solutions, such as TensorFlow or PyTorch.
  • Experience with AI-powered search and retrieval frameworks like RAG.
  • Proficiency in Python, R, or other programming languages used in AI development.
  • A proactive and resourceful approach to problem-solving.
  • Passion for advancing public service through innovation and technology.
  • Analyze and identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency across key business areas using AI and technology-based automation solutions.
  • Design, develop, and implement tools and workflows that address internal operational challenges.
  • Enable the integration of automation into client delivery operations.
  • Help implement a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) framework for AI system access to Google Workspace information.
  • Automate routine processes to improve accuracy, speed, and employee satisfaction.
  • Build predictive models and analytics to support decision-making.
  • Help shape and grow Skylight’s AI-driven business operations team.
  • Collaborate with non-technical team members to design user-friendly solutions.
  • Promote ethical AI practices and ensure compliance with data privacy standards.
  • Provide training and support for successful adoption of AI and automation tools.

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🔥 VP of Growth
Posted 5 months ago

📍 US

🧭 Full-Time

💸 170000 - 240000 USD per year

🔍 Digital consultancy for government services

  • Broad executive-level growth experience in business development and government professional services.
  • Demonstrated experience managing growth at the federal level.
  • Ability to coordinate cohesive and collaborative growth activities in a matrixed environment.
  • Establish order and accountability in growth practices.
  • Maintain trusted relationships internally and externally.
  • Deep understanding of government procurement regulations and processes.
  • Experience collaborating with finance and marketing functions.
  • Understanding of core competencies like user experience design and software engineering.
  • Outstanding organizational skills with attention to detail.
  • Commitment to excellence and quality, with strong communication skills.
  • Passionate about improving public outcomes through government services.
  • Ability to travel for work.
  • Strategize and build a scalable growth model leveraging SBIR/STTR contracts.
  • Formulate and execute cyclical growth strategies in alignment with company goals.
  • Lead growth-related activities and teams, including business development and sales.
  • Partner with business unit executives to execute key growth initiatives.
  • Guide pursuit of contract opportunities with appropriate resources and arrangements.
  • Collaborate with marketing to align outreach and growth activities.
  • Engage hands-on in growth activities as needed.
  • Improve growth infrastructure, tools, processes, and training.

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🔥 Chief Financial Officer
Posted 6 months ago

📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 $170,000 - $240,000 per year

🔍 Digital consultancy, government contracting

  • Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business administration, or related field; Master’s degree (e.g., MBA) or relevant certifications (e.g., CPA, CMA) preferred.
  • Extensive experience in financial management, with at least 10–15 years in financial leadership roles in a government contractor professional services environment.
  • Excellent general management and leadership skills.
  • Outstanding organizational skills, including attention to detail.
  • Excellent people management skills.
  • Experience building and managing high-performing teams.
  • Relentless commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
  • Collaborative, supportive leadership style.
  • Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
  • Strong business acumen.
  • Superb written and oral communication skills.
  • Relentless commitment to excellence and quality in everything we do.
  • Strong understanding of business functions such as people ops, marketing, business development, etc.
  • Ability to collect, analyze, and derive actionable insights from financial, operational, and performance data.
  • Ability to serve as a coach/mentor to other leaders and managers.
  • Passionate about creating better public outcomes through great government services.
  • Ability to travel for work from time to time.
  • Strategic financial leadership: Formulate and implement the company’s financial strategy, participate in strategic planning, act as an advisor to the executive team, and play a key role in mergers and acquisitions.
  • Financial planning and reporting: Develop, manage, and oversee the annual budget process, prepare accurate and timely financial statements, and conduct financial analysis and performance monitoring.
  • Compliance and risk management: Ensure adherence to government regulations (e.g., FAR, DCAA), coordinate audits, manage financial risks, and maintain internal controls.
  • Cost management and pricing: Implement cost accounting practices for government contracts, develop pricing strategies, manage wrap rates, and identify and implement cost-saving measures.
  • Cash flow and expense management: Monitor and manage cash flow, develop financial forecasts and projections, oversee expense management, and manage payroll and accounts payable processes.
  • Tax, investment, and debt management: Oversee tax planning and compliance, manage investment portfolios, develop capital-raising strategies, and manage debt relationships.
  • Team development and training: Assemble, manage, and develop the finance and accounting team, including providing financial training and support to other organizations.
  • Vendor and procurement oversight: Oversee financial relationships with vendors and contractors, ensure procurement process oversight, and negotiate payment terms.
  • Financial systems and technology: Oversee the implementation, management, and upgrading of financial systems and technologies to streamline processes and improve accuracy.
  • Stakeholder communication and ethical standards: Communicate financial performance and strategy to stakeholders, uphold ethical standards in financial reporting, and serve as the primary financial liaison with government agencies.

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📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 170000 - 240000 USD per year

🔍 Digital consultancy

  • Experience in the defense services industry
  • Ability to manage a multi-million-dollar profit & loss business
  • Experience in business development and proposal processes
  • Understanding of professional services and government contracting
  • Startup mentality with entrepreneurial skills
  • Excellent management and leadership skills
  • Outstanding organizational skills with attention to detail
  • Excellent people management skills and ability to build high-performing teams
  • Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
  • Collaborative leadership style
  • Strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills
  • Strong business acumen with superb communication skills
  • Ability to analyze operational and financial data for decision-making
  • Ability to mentor and coach other leaders
  • Passion for enhancing public services through technology
  • Collaborate with executive team to set and drive strategic direction
  • Lead execution of operations through goal setting and performance management
  • Manage day-to-day operations, overseeing managers and client delivery teams
  • Engage in growing defense services portfolio with agencies
  • Maintain oversight of financial and operational health of the organization
  • Ensure business unit operations align with company core operations
  • Build a diverse, inclusive culture and maintain relationships with customers

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🔥 Chief of Staff
Posted 7 months ago

📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 170000 - 240000 USD per year

🔍 Digital consultancy

  • Strong understanding of professional services and government contracting.
  • Startup mentality and entrepreneurial spirit.
  • Excellent management and leadership skills.
  • Outstanding organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Excellent people management skills.
  • Experience building high-performing teams.
  • Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
  • Collaborative and supportive leadership style.
  • Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving abilities.
  • Strong business acumen.
  • Superb written and oral communication skills.
  • Ability to analyze actionable insights from data.
  • Experience in coaching and mentoring other leaders.
  • Passion for improving public outcomes through government services.
  • Be a strategic partner to the CEO and other executives, providing advice and counsel.
  • Manage day-to-day responsibilities for projects and high-priority initiatives.
  • Build a diverse and inclusive culture to meet organizational outcomes.
  • Ensure visibility into the company's financial and operational health.
  • Lead annual strategic planning processes.
  • Develop cross-organizational relationships for leadership success.
  • Maintain trusted relationships with customers and stakeholders.

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