Director of Program Management

Responsibilities

• Responsible for program cost, schedule, technical performance and risk of each individual program across the US business  
• Develops a reporting cadence for action items, key metrics, customer and executive briefings
• Provides program management resource support for the ispace-US Bids and Proposal process
• Responsible for all program planning and controls functions to include schedule, Subcontract Deliverable Requirements Lists (SDRL's) and Risks
• Supports Operational leadership to develop processes, tools and procedures for Program Execution
• Ensures cross-functional stakeholder alignment with Engineering, Programs, Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Export Compliance, Legal, Assembly, Integration and Test, Quality, Safety and Mission Operations
• Proactively identify critical program development strategic issues and performs gap analysis, provides potential mitigation plans, participate and facilitate strategic prioritization process within ispace-US Business Performance Review meetings. Ensures major technical reviews are accomplished that advance development according to baselined schedule. 
• Collaborate with software, hardware, supply chain and integration teams
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• Extreme ownership of project, responsible for driving from concept through to integration and launch

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's within a STEM discipline, ideally 10+ years of combined experience managing complex and challenging cross-functional development programs within a highly fast paced technical environment, ideally within the Aerospace industry  
• Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills, with ability to work successfully across global cross functional leaders
• High sense of accountability and ownership, ability to be resourceful and deliver results with minimal direction
• Experience independently assessing complex problems and decomposing into a plan of action while coordinating across a large and diverse team of technical and schedule/business SMEs
• The ability to deliver, manage, and present communications (written/oral) with stakeholders through organized processes to ensure program information is defined, collected, shared, understood, stored and retrieved in a manner that effectively meets program and stakeholder needs.
• Proven and effective executive-level briefing, writing and organizational skills and significant experience leading across multiplane technical and business operations disciplines  
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft products and data analytics tools (e.g. Project, Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, etc.) Ideal candidate has experience with Fastworks toolset and methodologies
• Must be a US Citizen, US National, or Permanent Resident.  Sponsorship for this role is not currently available.
• Must be willing to submit and pass a pre-employment background check.

Preferred Qualifications

• Candidate should ideally have startup experience - ability to navigate between the big-picture strategy and tactical execution of programs
• Ideal candidate has experience working with spacecraft development programs to include Engineering Design, Development, Assembly Integration & Test and Mission Operations
• Proficiency in Solidworks, Femap, NASTRAN (or equivalent), Confluence, JIRA software packages

• Experience with complex spacecraft design and integration

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive annual salary starting at $175k+ dependent upon background and experience level
• Equity/Stock options 
• Medical/vision/dental health benefits (Some 100% company paid options available for employee only) 
• Hybrid work schedule
• Company-paid public transportation on RTD buses and light rail (RTD EcoPass) 
• Paid vacation (18 days), Sick days (6 days), Holidays (11 paid holidays)
• 401(k)