Senior Manager, Structures

At REGENT, we’re on a mission to revolutionize regional transportation between coastal cities. We're not just building vehicles, we're creating a new category of transportation: the Seaglider. These groundbreaking wing-in-ground-effect craft travel just above the water’s surface, combining the speed of an airplane with the low operating costs of a boat. Capable of 180 miles at 180 mph on today's battery tech (and up to 400 miles with next-gen batteries), Seagliders will unlock fast, affordable, and sustainable coastal transit for passengers and cargo - connecting cities, islands, and communities like never before. Backed by leading investors and powered by a team of passionate, forward-thinking engineers, builders, and operators, we’re now scaling from a breakthrough prototype to full production - and building the team to make it happen. ROLE OVERVIEW As the Senior Manager, Structures, you’ll lead the team responsible for one of the most fundamental aspects of a safe, certifiable vehicle - ensuring our Seaglider can withstand everything it encounters in service, and proving it to the standards required for certification. You’ll join an existing team of capable engineers and become their functional home: setting technical standards, developing careers, and building a cohesive, disciplined group that programs across REGENT can rely on. You’ll own the quality and consistency of structural analysis, margin documentation, and certification artifacts - not just for one program, but as a function. Working closely with Loads & Dynamics, Flight Physics, and Manufacturing, you’ll own the structural side of critical cross-functional interfaces: how loads are applied, how margins are calculated, how FEM fidelity is maintained, and how test correlation closes the loop between analysis and reality. This is a player-coach role. You’ll lead and develop the team while staying technically engaged - doing hands-on work alongside the team and earning credibility through depth, not just authority. If you’re energized by building something rigorous from the inside out, we’d be thrilled to have you on the team. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Lead and Develop the Structures Team: Own the people side of the Structures function — conducting 1:1s, building development plans, identifying skill gaps, and creating a team identity engineers want to be part of. In a matrix org, you’re their functional home. - Establish Structural Analysis Standards: Define and enforce the discipline’s standards for analysis methods, documentation, configuration control, and review processes — ensuring consistent quality and traceability regardless of which program the work supports. - Own Structural Substantiation and Certification Approach: Lead the team’s work toward certification-ready artifacts — margin documentation, allowables basis, and compliance approaches for structural substantiation across programs. - Drive the Composites Knowledge Base: Own the composites allowables and design-values roadmap — understanding what data exists, what testing is needed, and what interim assumptions are in use. Build the team’s depth in composite laminate design and analysis. - Manage Key Cross-Functional Interfaces: Partner with Loads & Dynamics on load application, margining conventions, and FEM integration. Coordinate with Flight Physics on CFD-to-FEM workflows. Work with Manufacturing on design-for-manufacturability and how process constraints feed into structural design. - Own Structural Test Planning and Correlation: Define test plans, manage building-block test programs, and own the process for closing the loop between analysis predictions and test results — building a reusable capability the function can apply across programs. WHAT YOU'LL BRING - Structural Engineering Depth: Deep, hands-on expertise in aerospace structural engineering, with a strong background in both composite and metallic structure — someone who can do the work and teach it. - Functional Management Experience: Proven exp