Mission Delivery Lead - Orbit Missions & Equity

Loft Orbital; Occitanie; Presencial; EUR 110.000 - 150.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Equity

PTO up to 35 days

Health and life insurance

Lunch vouchers

Cross-office travel to Toulouse/US

Off-sites and team events

Relocation assistance to Toulouse

Descripción de la vacante

Loft Orbital is seeking a Mission Manager to lead the delivery of customer missions from contract signature to deployment in orbit. You will own the Mission Development Plan and coordinate across engineering, product, and operations to meet launch deadlines and milestones.

You will manage customer relationships at all levels, maintain the Customer Offering Portfolio, and collaborate with Customer Delivery Engineers to ensure capabilities and tooling are in place.

Formación

• 8+ years of professional experience in technical program, product, or engineering roles.
• 3+ years managing technical programs or missions delivered to external customers, from definition through delivery and operations.
• Experience deploying products into production or operational environments, including release readiness, cross-team dependency management, and post-deployment quality.
• Experience in the satellite or aerospace industry, with working knowledge of spacecraft systems, mission operations, or payload development.
• Experience owning the relationship with external customers day to day, including scope, schedule, and tradeoff conversations with executive-level stakeholders.
• Exceptional and proven technical aptitude: able to go deep with engineers on architecture and tradeoffs, and translate that fluently for customers and executives.
• Excellent and concise communication skills at all levels, with the organization and prioritization skills to run multiple parallel workstreams in a fast-paced environment.
• Fluent written and spoken English; our customers and half the Customer Delivery team are in the US.

Responsabilidades

• Own the Mission Development Plan for assigned missions: identify work, break into packages, and drive to completion against launch deadlines and milestones.
• Manage the customer relationship for mission delivery: engage with customers day to day, up to the executive level, on scope, schedule, and tradeoffs.
• Manage the Customer Offering Portfolio: maintain the catalog of capabilities Loft can draw on and drive new capability development with product and engineering teams.
• Partner with Customer Delivery Engineers to deliver customer value, ensuring capabilities, plans, and tooling are in place when needed.
• Connect Customer Delivery to Loft's product organization by representing operational and customer constraints in product planning and deployment of new features.
• Drive cross-functional coordination and status clarity: run internal reviews, report progress, risks, blockers, and align leadership and customers.
• Build tools, templates, and workflows for the team, often from a blank page, using Jira and spreadsheets.

Conocimientos

Technical program management

Customer relationship management

Cross-functional leadership

English fluency

Satellite industry knowledge

Communication skills

Autonomy

Herramientas

Jira

Spreadsheets

Descripción del empleo

Loft Orbital is seeking a Mission Manager to lead the delivery of customer missions from contract signature to deployment in orbit. You will own the Mission Development Plan and coordinate across engineering, product, and operations to meet launch deadlines and milestones.

You will manage customer relationships at all levels, maintain the Customer Offering Portfolio, and collaborate with Customer Delivery Engineers to ensure capabilities and tooling are in place.