Launch Campaign Lead – Space Systems & Scheduling

BlackSky; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

BlackSky is seeking a Program Manager to drive our launch campaigns at a hybrid Seattle-based office, coordinating with launch providers and managing complex schedules. The role demands independent leadership across hardware, software, and testing activities, with travel up to 50% to Tukwila and launch sites.

You will train teams, develop integrated plans, and lead risk mitigations while interfacing with engineering and procurement. Open to remote candidates with local preference.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
• 8 years of direct Project Management Experience or related experience.
• Experience working complex systems with hardware and integrated software dependencies.
• Experience working with launch providers as a mission manager or launch integration lead.
• Highly skilled at managing schedules with critical dependencies and requirements or system engineering.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% to support launch activities both in our Tukwila facility and Launch sites.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the full scope of launch contracting, documents and deliverables and scheduling.
• Develop integrated plans and schedules to support the testing and artifacts required to support launch.
• Own daily tasking and deconfliction of activities within areas of responsibility associated with the launch campaign.
• Develop a training program for team members to support launch campaigns inclusive of defining roles and responsibilities, test procedures and best practices.
• Support the overall campaign as the onsite launch lead representative.
• Serve as a main point of contact to grow relationships with launch providers and track longer term opportunities associated with the launch vendors.
• Proactively identify risks associated with launch schedule and integration campaign and work mitigations.
• Lead release gate process for satellite buy off for flight.
• Interface with the engineering teams to evaluate compliance with the specification and opportunities to improve the subsystem to benefit business and schedule performance.
• Track action items and schedules across engineering teams, including maintaining accurate logs of design release status.
• Coordinate with the procurement team to support ordering and receipt of build to print parts in support of the necessary launch vehicle interfaces.
• Shepherd the engineering team through key milestone reviews including Preliminary Design, Critical Design, Test Readiness, and early production deliveries, as well as launch readiness review.
• Manage reports and support development of standard documentation with respect to satellite qualification and flight testing to share with providers.
• Interface with the full system level schedule and identify key milestones to manage risk.
• Facilitate and become an expert in satellite site testing including developing training material for other team members.

Skills

Project management

Scheduling

Launch integration

Risk management

Independent contributor

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Job description

BlackSky is seeking a Program Manager to drive our launch campaigns at a hybrid Seattle-based office, coordinating with launch providers and managing complex schedules. The role demands independent leadership across hardware, software, and testing activities, with travel up to 50% to Tukwila and launch sites.

You will train teams, develop integrated plans, and lead risk mitigations while interfacing with engineering and procurement. Open to remote candidates with local preference.