Program Manager - Space Products

Science [&] Technology Corporation; Delft; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual company trip abroad

Job summary

Science [&] Technology Corporation in Delft seeks an experienced Program Manager to lead the development of the space product portfolio within the Defence & Security business unit. You will align hardware, software, and AI initiatives into a single roadmap, delivering a scalable onboard processing solution for future missions.

You will coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage priorities and timelines, and drive programs from concept to deployment, ensuring rapid transition from development to

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a technical or business field or equivalent experience.
• Experience managing complex technical programs or multidisciplinary product development projects.
• Experience leading product development from concept through deployment.
• Affinity with space hardware, payloads, on-board electronics, or space segment systems.
• Strong project management and stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to obtain Dutch, NATO, or EU security clearances (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the development of on-board processing product platform, aligning projects to the roadmap and strategic objectives.
• Facilitate program with technical leads, balancing scope, priorities, resources, budgets, schedules, and risks across multiple workstreams.
• Support multidisciplinary engineering teams from concept to deployment and ensure timely decision-making.
• Collaborate with customers, internal stakeholders and partners to translate needs into objectives and priorities.
• Drive collaboration across electronics, software, AI, systems engineering and project teams for integrated solutions.
• Monitor progress, identify and mitigate risks, manage dependencies, ensure timely delivery of results.

Skills

Program management

Multidisciplinary coordination

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Leadership

Education

Master's degree

Job description

We are currently looking for a Program Manager to join theteam in Delft.

As Earth observation missions continue to demand higher-resolution sensors and increasingly intelligent payloads, the need for a new generation of on-board processing capabilities is growing rapidly. Processing data directly in space enables faster decision-making, reduces bandwidth requirements, and unlocks entirely new mission concepts. At S&T, we are developing the next generation of on-board processing platforms that combine high-performance electronics, advanced software, and AI to bring these enhanced capabilities into orbit as quickly as possible.

We are looking for an experienced Program Manager to lead and coordinate the development of our space product portfolio within our Defence & Security business unit in Delft. You will be responsible for aligning multiple hardware, software, and AI integration projects into a single product roadmap, ensuring that together they deliver a scalable, high-performance on-board processing solution for future space missions.

As Program Manager, you will drive the program from concept to deployment, balancing technical ambition with execution. You will coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams, manage priorities, resources, and timelines, and ensure that innovations move rapidly from development into operational space systems. Working at the intersection of technology, product strategy, and customer needs, you will play a key role in bringing next-generation on-board processing solutions to space, enabling future payloads to process more data, make smarter decisions, and deliver greater mission value.

• Coordinate the development of S&T's on-board processing product platform, ensuring all projects contribute to the overall product roadmap and strategic objectives.
• Facilitate the overall program together with the technical leads, balancing scope, priorities, resources, budgets, schedules, and risks across multiple hardware, software, and AI workstreams.
• Support multidisciplinary engineering teams throughout the complete product lifecycle, from concept and architecture through development, integration, validation, and deployment, ensuring effective collaboration and timely decision-making.
• Work closely with customers, internal stakeholders, and external partners to translate mission and user needs into clear program objectives and technical priorities.
• Facilitate collaboration between electronics, software, AI, systems engineering, and project teams to deliver integrated, high-performance on-board processing solutions.
• Monitor program progress, proactively identify and mitigate risks, manage dependencies, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality results.
• Support the transition from technology development to operational deployment, helping bring next-generation on-board processing capabilities into space as quickly as possible.

Requirements

• Master’s degree preferably in a technical or a business field, or equivalent experience in managing complex technical projects.
• Experience managing complex technical programs or multidisciplinary product development projects in a high-tech environment.
• Experience leading product development from concept through qualification and deployment.
• Preference for candidates with experience in the development of space hardware, payloads, on-board electronics, or other space segment systems.
• Strong project management experience, stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Affinity with the Defence sector and the ability to obtain Dutch, NATO, or EU security clearances (required)
• Fluency in English (written and spoken); Dutch is an advantage.

What we offer

• A competitive salary between €4,500 and €7,000 gross per month, based on your experience and background.
• The opportunity to work on innovative technologies with real operational impact.
• Challenging projects within the Defence & Security domain.
• Collaboration with highly skilled engineers and domain experts.
• A modern and flexible working environment.
• The opportunity to contribute to solutions that help protect people, infrastructure and society.
• A yearly fun trip abroad with the entire company!

Please note that if you do not hear back from us within 10 days of your application, you may assume that we have selected another candidate we would like to interview for this position. We do our best to get back to you individually, however, due to a high volume of responses, it can be that we have not been able to reject your application in person.

Are you enthusiastic about becoming our new Program Manager?

AtS[&]T we contribute to a safer life on earth by translating space data intovaluable and actionable insights. We oversee data from instruments to application,and apply our expertise within our softwareframeworks, information products and consultancy.

Our society relies on space and scientific instruments forclimatechange monitoring, navigation, defence and national security, and other crucialservices we all use in our daily lives. These instruments produce an enormousquantity of complex data, and our goal is to unlock its value.

We have more than 20 years of experience working oninstrumentcalibration, the creation of data quality monitoring tools, the development of real-timedata processing frameworks, and the development of application-specificalgorithms. With this, we help organisations, governments and industries tostrengthen their information position and thereby improve their decision making.We focus on the following domains: Space & Science, Defence & Security,Environment & Sustainability, and High-Tech Consulting.

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