Commercial Program Manager - Business Development

Xona is the navigational intelligence company bringing real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth. With Pulsar – the world’s most advanced PNT satellite infrastructure in Low Earth Orbit – Xona will offer a future-proof, backwards-compatible global positioning system optimized for absolute precision, superior power, and robust protection.

About the role

We are seeking a Commercial Program Manager to ensure compliant project delivery for commercial industry customers and partners. The successful candidate will work effectively with cross-functional teams in identifying, capturing, and delivering on customer programs and schedules. The program manager must maintain customer accounts, generate new accounts, work closely with internal and external technical teams, and align these activities to Xona’s overall business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Be the Customer Interface: Work closely with customers to match shared value propositions, build and synchronize schedules, technical requirements, and contract deliverables.
• Coordinate Across Teams: Facilitate communication across product, operations, and business teams to ensure deliverables are met.
• Interface with Leadership: Provide regular updates to the leadership team, escalating issues and proposing solutions to maintain program momentum.
• Contribute to Process Development: Collaborate with business and product team members to improve processes, tools, and reporting structures to scale with the company’s growth.
• Thrive in a Startup Environment: Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where things can move and evolve rapidly. Ability to work autonomously in a small, dynamic team.
• Communicate: Excellent communication and organizational skills, ability to create and maintain project schedules.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of experience in program management, or a related role.
• Technical educational background in engineering or a related field.
• Business development and/or sales experience.
• Knowledgeable of PNT systems, GNSS, and alternative navigation technologies.
• Well networked and knowledgeable of industrial timing and/or consumer IoT OEM companies.
• PMP, AGILE training or other relevant certifications.

Requirements

• For U.S. Roles: To comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States (i.e. Green Card holder), or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).
• For U.K. Roles: To comply with U.K. regulations, this role requires Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks, and successful candidates must be eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance (SC).
• For Canada Roles: Successful candidates must obtain and hold a security clearance at the reliability status level, and pass security assessment for the Canadian Controlled Goods Program (CGP) and ITAR.