DC Office & Projects Growth Lead

Telemetry Today LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Parental Leave

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

401k with Company Match

Equity Grants

Job summary

Ursa Major is seeking a seasoned Senior Office & Project Manager to own the DC office operations and build scalable infrastructure for growth. You will manage vendor relationships, budgets, and logistics for visits, meetings, and events, while coordinating IT, Security, Finance, and People teams.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years in related operations, are comfortable in a tech-driven environment, and can navigate export-controlled contexts.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in office management, workplace operations, facilities coordination, executive support, or a related operations role.
• Experience managing vendors, service providers, and operational budgets, including negotiating and owning contracts.
• Demonstrated experience hosting executives, customers, or external guests in a professional, high-visibility setting.
• Strong organization and prioritization under frequent last-minute changes.
• Comfort operating in a technology-driven environment: proficiency with Microsoft 365, Teams and scheduling/expense tools, plus a demonstrated ability to quickly pick up new platforms.
• Genuine curiosity about what Ursa Major builds and the ability to learn enough about rocket propulsion to speak credibly with engineers, customers, and government visitors.
• Ability to work on-site in Washington, DC five days per week.
• S. citizenship, permanent residency, refugee, or asylum status is required (role involves access to export-controlled information)

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of DC office projects from scoping through close-out.
• Develop project plans with clear scope, schedules, milestones, budgets, and owners; track progress and report status to leadership.
• Run cross-functional working groups impacting the DC office with IT, Security/FSO, Facilities, Finance, and People to keep initiatives on schedule and unblock dependencies.
• Identify risks and issues early, drive mitigation plans, and elevate decisions with clear options and recommendations.
• Maintain the DC team's action-item tracker, event calendar, and conference logistics; run recurring operating reviews and follow-ups.
• Standardize project tools and templates (charters, timelines, budgets, lessons learned)

Skills

Office operations

Vendor management

Project management

Event coordination

Security/compliance knowledge

Tools

Microsoft 365

Teams

visitor-management systems

ERP

AV/conferencing

procurement software

Job description

Ursa Major is seeking a seasoned Senior Office & Project Manager to own the DC office operations and build scalable infrastructure for growth. You will manage vendor relationships, budgets, and logistics for visits, meetings, and events, while coordinating IT, Security, Finance, and People teams.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years in related operations, are comfortable in a tech-driven environment, and can navigate export-controlled contexts.