Sr. Program Manager, Space Technologies

Position Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary teams to successfully design and deliver hardware for space electronics programs.
• Cook up cross-functional activities across engineering, systems, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain.
• Develop and manage detailed project plans, identifying critical path activities and risk mitigation strategies.
• Serve as the primary point of contact between the team, product lead, and external/internal stakeholders.
• Oversee requirements definition, system architecture, design reviews, verification, and validation processes.
• Ensure compliance with applicable space, aerospace, or defense standards and customer specifications.
• Perform project management activities in accordance with accepted project management standards in the industry (e.g., PMI, Project Management Body of Knowledge [PMBOK], ANSI, and ISO-standards).
• Maintain clear communication across all team members, ensuring effective collaboration and timely decision-making.
• Mentor and develop team members, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure team members' responsibilities, accountability and authority are clearly documented and understood and individuals are executing to the plan.
• Support resource allocation, budget tracking and identify, document and manage project risks, issues and opportunities.
• Manage scope, schedule, and budget for assigned control accounts, negotiate scope of work.
• Develop, implement, and manage corrective actions at the activity level while maintaining baseline integrity.
• Establish, monitor and integrate change management processes and decisions.
• Facilitate negotiations involving major project parameters such as deliverable definition and performance objectives (e.g., cost, schedule, quality).

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
• 8-12 years of experience managing large-scale programs, with a proven track record in leading complex, multi-million-dollar programs.
• Deep understanding of project management methodologies, organizational change management principles, and developing risk management & mitigation plans.
• Knowledge of the Project Lifecycle from requirements definition, proposal preparation and negotiation and project implementation through to completion.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to navigate competing priorities and influence without direct authority.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and other program management tools (e.g., Jira, Gitlab, etc.).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to listen, assimilate, evaluate, and summarize.
• Sound ability to communicate with the customer at all levels.
• Strong initiative in defining, proposing, implementing, and communicating schedule metrics that support informed decision-making.
• Some travel required (~20%).
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance.