Program Manager, Federal Space Programs

Loft Federal; Arvada (CO); On-site; USD 125,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% company-paid medical, dental, and

Vision insurance

Flexible Time Off

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Loft Federal seeks a Program Manager to manage customer-facing execution across federal space programs and contracts. You will coordinate with Federal leadership, engineering, contracts, finance, security, and customers to keep programs organized and on track.

The role is hands-on, with opportunities to grow into larger program ownership. Final leveling ranges from Associate to Senior Program Manager based on experience and operating depth.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
• 3+ years of experience in program management or related fields.
• Experience supporting customer-facing programs or government contracts.
• Ability to organize and track actions, deliverables, and schedules.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for customer-facing materials.
• Ability to work with contracts, finance, engineering and leadership across multiple teams.
• Familiarity with federal contracts, statements of work, and budget considerations.
• Ability to understand technical content to coordinate with engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Support execution of customer contracts across cost, schedule, technical, contractual, and deliverable requirements.
• Serve as day-to-day customer-facing program interface for assigned programs, task orders, studies, demonstrations, or contract workstreams.
• Prepare for and support customer meetings, program reviews, technical interchange meetings, status calls, and internal execution reviews.
• Track customer commitments, meeting actions, deliverables, risks, issues, decisions, and follow-up items through closure.
• Maintain program execution artifacts, including action trackers, deliverable trackers, risk registers, status reports, meeting notes, schedules, and program review materials.
• Partner with senior program managers and Federal leadership to ensure customer priorities are clearly understood and translated into internal execution plans.
• Coordinate with Engineering, Mission, Product, Security, Contracts, Finance, and subcontractors to keep program work aligned and moving.
• Support development and maintenance of program schedules, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and internal execution plans.
• Monitor program execution against contract requirements, statements of work, data deliverables, funding limits, period of performance, and customer expectations.
• Support financial discipline by helping track program budgets, burn rates, labor plans, material needs, subcontractor inputs, invoices, and forecast inputs.
• Coordinate with Contracts and Legal on customer deliverables, contract modifications, customer correspondence, funding status, and compliance requirements.
• Support Engineering and Mission teams by tracking technical dependencies, interface needs, verification activities, test readiness, delivery readiness, and customer review inputs.
• Identify execution risks early and elevate issues before they become customer-facing problems.
• Support proposal and follow-on growth activities by helping capture customer needs, execution assumptions, lessons learned, risks, deliverables, and program inputs.
• Help improve Loft Federal’s program management processes, templates, reporting cadence, and execution discipline as the business scales.

Skills

Program management

Customer-facing

Scheduling & planning

Budgeting & cost control

Risk management

Cross-functional leadership

Technical understanding of space

Communication

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft Project

Smartsheet

Excel

PowerPoint

Google Workspace

ERP/CRM systems

Job description

Loft Federal seeks a Program Manager to manage customer-facing execution across federal space programs and contracts. You will coordinate with Federal leadership, engineering, contracts, finance, security, and customers to keep programs organized and on track.

The role is hands-on, with opportunities to grow into larger program ownership. Final leveling ranges from Associate to Senior Program Manager based on experience and operating depth.