Customer Delivery Manager

Loft Orbital Solutions; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% company-paid medical, dental, and

Vision insurance

Flexible Time Off

401(k) plan and equity options

Relocation assistance where applicable

Job summary

Loft Orbital is seeking a Customer Delivery Manager to bridge product development with the customer value stream, ensuring the team has the right capabilities, tools, and plans to execute customer missions. You will coordinate across engineering, product, and operations to deploy new capabilities and deliver mission value.

You will own mission development plans, manage the offering portfolio, and collaborate with Customer Delivery Engineers to ensure readiness and successful deployments in

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in technical program, product, or engineering roles.
• At least 3 years as an Engineering Program Manager or TPM at a product-driven company.
• Experience deploying products into production or operational environments.
• Experience in satellite or aerospace industry with spacecraft knowledge.
• Experience working with external customers, including executives.
• Strong technical aptitude to discuss architecture and tradeoffs with engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the Mission Development Plan for assigned missions, breaking work into packages and driving to launch-anchored deadlines.
• Manage the Customer Offering Portfolio and identify deltas to drive new capability development.
• Partner with Customer Delivery Engineers to ensure capabilities, plans, and tooling are in place.
• Represent operational constraints in product planning and deploy new features into operation.
• Drive cross-functional coordination, run internal reviews, and keep leadership and customers aligned.
• Engage directly with customers up to executive level on scope, schedule, and tradeoffs.
• Continuously improve Customer Delivery processes, templates, and workflows.

Skills

Technical program management

Cross-functional leadership

Executive stakeholder engagement

Communication excellence

Product planning & roadmap

Job description

Wanna join the adventure?

Loft Orbital's mission is to make space simple. We deploy customer missions on our satellite infrastructure so our customers can focus on their applications instead of the spacecraft underneath them. The Customer Delivery team turns signed contracts into working missions on orbit and supports our customers from start to finish.

As a Customer Delivery Manager, you maintain the engine that drives the Customer Delivery team forward. You connect Loft's product development efforts to our customer value stream, ensuring the team has the right capabilities, tools, and plans to execute customer missions. You will work alongside our Customer Delivery Engineers (CDEs), who design and execute each customer mission, by building the development plans and capability portfolio they draw on to deliver value to our customers. You will own Mission Development Plans that coordinate work across engineering, product, and operations teams; manage the Customer Offering Portfolio that defines what Loft can deliver; and drive quality, visibility, and consistency in how new capabilities are deployed to our customer offering. This role is well suited to someone who has taken products from development through deployment at a product-driven technology company and wants to apply that discipline iteratively across an active product line of missions flying in orbit.

About this role:

• Own the Mission Development Plan for assigned missions: identify all work required to deploy and execute the mission, break it down into committed work packages with contributing teams, and drive it to completion against launch-anchored deadlines
• Manage the Customer Offering Portfolio: maintain the catalog of capabilities Loft can draw on to execute customer missions, identify deltas between the portfolio and upcoming mission needs, and drive new capability development with product and engineering teams
• Partner with Customer Delivery Engineers to deliver customer value: CDEs execute the mission with the customer, and you ensure the capabilities, plans, and tooling they need are in place when they need them
• Connect Customer Delivery to Loft's product organization by representing operational and customer constraints in product planning, and by managing the deployment of new features and capabilities into operational use
• Drive cross-functional coordination and status clarity: run internal reviews with CDEs, report on development progress, risks, and blockers, and keep leadership and customers aligned on where things stand
• Engage directly with customers, up to the executive level, on mission development scope, schedule, and capability tradeoffs
• Continuously improve Customer Delivery processes, templates, and workflows to increase execution efficiency without sacrificing quality

Must Haves:

• ~8 years of professional experience in technical program, product, or engineering roles
• ~3 years as an Engineering Program Manager (EPM) or Product-focused Technical Program Manager (TPM) at a product-driven technology company, leading cross-functional programs from definition through ship
• 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 working directly with external customers, including 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 communication skills at all levels, from engineering deep dives to executive summaries, with the organization and prioritization skills to run multiple parallel workstreams in a fast-paced environment

Nice to Haves:

• Direct experience with satellite on-orbit operations, commissioning, or ground segment software
• Technical leadership experience (leading engineers or technical teams, formally or informally)
• Experience building or managing a product/capability portfolio, roadmap, or plan of record
• Experience with international customers and distributed teams

Some of Our Awesome Benefits:

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance option for employees and dependents
• Flexible Spending (FSA) and Health Savings (HSA) Accounts offered with an employer contribution to the HSA
• 100% employer paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term, and Long-Term Disability insurance
• Flexible Time Off policy for vacation and sick leave, and 12 paid holidays
• 401(k) plan and equity options
• Daily catered lunches and snacks in office
• International exposure to our team in France
• Fully paid parental leave; 14 weeks for birthing parent and 10 weeks for non-birthing parent
• Carrot Fertility provides comprehensive, inclusive fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits with financial support
• Off-sites and many social events and celebrations
• Relocation assistance when applicable

$140,000 - $190,000 a year

State law requires us to tell you the base compensation range for this role, which is $140,000- $190,000 per year. This is determined by your education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities. The salary range for this role is intentionally wide as we evaluate individuals based on their unique experience and abilities to fit our needs. Most importantly, we are excited to meet you, and see if you are a great fit for our team. What we can’t quantify for you are the exciting challenges, supportive team, and amazing culture we enjoy.

Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other underrepresented people tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Loft, we value respectful debate and people who aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions. We strongly encourage you to apply, even if you don’t check all the boxes.

Who We Are

Loft: Space Made Simple.

Founded in 2017, Loft provides governments, companies, and research institutions with a fast, reliable, and simple way to deploy missions in orbit.

We integrate, launch, and operate spacecraft, offering end-to-end missions as a service across Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on-orbit AI, national security missions, and more. Leveraging our existing space infrastructure and an extensive inventory of satellite buses, Loft is reducing years-long integration and launch timelines to months. With more than 30 missions flown, Loft’s flight heritage and proven technologies enable customers to focus on their mission objectives.

With a growing fleet on track to reach 30 satellites by 2027, we are scaling up quickly across our offices in San Francisco, CA | Golden, CO | and Toulouse, France to meet accelerating demand for space infrastructure.

As an international company your resume will be reviewed by people across our offices so please attach a copy in English.