Senior Program Manager - Commercial Payloads

Muon Space; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401k retirement plan

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Unlimited sick time

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Muon Space is seeking a Senior Program Manager for commercial payloads to lead program execution, manage cost and schedule baselines, and ensure on-time, on-budget delivery of contracts with U.S. Government and commercial customers.

You will collaborate with engineering, business, legal, finance and operations teams, supporting growth through existing contracts and new captures, with a hybrid schedule in San Jose (3 days in office).

Qualifications

• 5+ years relevant experience in program management.
• B.S. in an engineering discipline; M.S. or Ph.D. preferred.
• Track record of delivering complete systems (hardware, firmware, software, algorithms) on time and to scope.
• Experience in development and/or program management of satellite-based systems with integrated master schedules.
• Expertise in modern cloud-based productivity tools.
• Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills with cross-disciplinary collaboration.
• Experience in vendor and contract management.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multidisciplinary aerospace development effort and drive day-to-day program execution.
• Coordinate resources with internal and external stakeholders to plan and execute the program.
• Establish tools, practices, and processes to synchronize a diverse technical team.
• Participate in technical discussions and drive scoping, schedules, and solutions to issues.
• Track and report program metrics on schedule, resources, cost, risk, and technical performance.
• Represent the company to customers, subcontractors and suppliers.

Skills

Program management

Systems engineering

Vendor management

Contract management

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Stakeholder management

Cloud-based productivity tools

Education

B.S. in engineering

M.S. or Ph.D. preferred

Tools

Python scripting

SQL/BigQuery

Dashboards

Job description

About the role

Muon seeks a Senior Program Manager - Commercial payloads to lead Muon Space’s Programs efforts, responsible for successfully delivering solutions, products, and technology while managing cost and schedule baselines contracts with the U.S. Government and Commercial Organizations. The Program Manager will be a key member of the Mission Engineering team and collaborate closely with Muon Space’s engineering, business, legal, finance, and operations departments. You will also support the portfolio's growth by fostering organic growth on existing contracts and supporting captures of new contracts.

As a Technical Program Manager at Muon Space, you delight our customers and users with high-quality products and solutions delivered on time and on budget, meeting our contractual obligations. You are cognizant of how all the pieces need to come together for successful program execution and can turn that into well-organized roadmaps, schedules, and budgets that you then track throughout the program lifecycle. You will be responsible for monitoring and ensuring successful execution of Muon’s contracts that you manage. You will support business development through proposals, RFI responses, customer engagement, and organic growth.

This role is based in San Jose with a hybrid schedule (3 days per week in-office).

Responsibilities

• Lead a multidisciplinary aerospace development effort, driving day-to-day execution of the program
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to plan and coordinate the resources necessary to execute the program
• Synchronize a diverse technical team by establishing tools, practices, and process
• Participate in technical discussions, ask probing questions, and work with the team to pull together scoping, schedules, and solutions to issues
• Track and report program metrics on schedule, resource, cost, risk, and technical performance
• Serve as the face of the company to customers, subcontractors and suppliers

Qualifications

• 5+ years relevant experience in program management
• B.S. in an engineering discipline, M.S. or Ph.D. preferred
• Track record of successfully delivering complete systems (hardware, firmware, software, algorithms) on time, to scope, with high quality.
• Experience in development and/or program management of satellite based systems. Ability to instantiate and manage integrated master schedules.
• Expertise in modern, cloud-based productivity tools
• Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills, with ability to work successfully across all engineering disciplines.
• Experience in vendor and contract management

Nice-to-have Skills

• System engineering and experience with inter-discipline technical trade study
• Experience working with scripting languages (e.g. Python, Julia) and database queries (e..g SQL, BigQuery) for data integration, analysis, and dashboarding.
• Experience in a fast-paced, startup environment
• Experience managing and growing teams

Salary

The salary range for this role is $175,000 - $208,000 plus a competitive equity grant and comprehensive benefits package. Final compensation will be based on skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location as assessed during the interview process.

About Muon Space

Founded in 2021, Muon Space is an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations delivering mission-critical data. Our revolutionary, integrated technology stack enables customers to optimize every dimension of their missions for faster time-to-orbit and superior constellation remote sensing performance. Our state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Silicon Valley is optimized for manufacturing spacecraft and rapid, flexible payload integration at scale. From climate monitoring to national security, Muon Space is dedicated to delivering Earth Intelligence for a safer and more resilient world.

Taking Care of Our Team

• In addition to salary, full-time employees receive equity compensation as well as benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k retirement plan, short & long term disability and life insurance.
• We also offer three weeks paid vacation for new employees, along with 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time and paid parental leave.

Our mission embraces the entire planet and we believe our team should too. Muon is dedicated to creating a diverse and dynamic company and workforce. We believe in equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or gender identity. We value diversity in the workplace, and that starts with our applicants. In addition, if you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know.

ITAR/EAR Requirements

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. The Company may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.