# Mission Management Program Manager

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $155,000-$198,000 USD
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96372482

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## Description

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity's reach into the solar system.

The Mission Management Program Manager will be responsible for coordinating the end-to-end execution of assigned missions across various organisations.

**Role**

- Develop and maintain external facing customer schedules, progress updates and technical briefing content for each customer

- Lead planning and preparation for recurring weekly mission execution reviews and ensure critical issues are surfaced and resolved

- Identify cross-functional dependencies and ensure appropriate owners and actions are established

- Coordinate mission readiness activities leading to launch, deployment, commissioning, and operational handoff

- Establish and maintain mission readiness criteria and track organisational readiness against those criteria

- Support development and continuous improvement of Astranis' mission-management processes, tools, and operating cadence

- Standardize deliverable templates and own preparation of customer milestone reviews in coordination with Spacecraft and Ground PMs

- Collaborate with Sales and Network Planning during term sheet and capacity agreement development on technical exhibits and SOW

- Filter all technical information shared with customers to ensure appropriate disclosure boundaries are maintained

**Requirements**

- 2+ years of experience in program management, systems engineering, mission operations, aerospace, defense, or another complex technical environment

- Experience coordinating complex, cross-functional technical programs, with internal and external stakeholders

- Strong understanding of systems engineering and system-level dependencies

- Experience working across engineering, sales, and operations organisations

- Experience with spacecraft, launch, mission operations, ground systems, or other highly integrated technical systems preferred

- Strong organisational and analytical skills, with the ability to turn ambiguity into clear plans and actions

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Ability to influence without formal authority and drive accountability across organisational boundaries

- Demonstrated ability to identify problems before they become schedule or mission-impacting issues

**What we offer**

- Base pay: $155,000-$198,000 USD

- Equity package via incentive stock options

- High-quality company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance, 401(k) retirement planning, flexible PTO, and free on-site catered meals

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## Skills

### Required
- program management
- systems engineering
- mission operations
- aerospace
- defense

### Nice to have
- spacecraft
- launch
- ground systems

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