Senior Program Manager, Eclipse

Firefly Aerospace, Inc.

Texas

On-site

USD 140,000 - 200,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Relocation benefits

Educational reimbursement

Short term disability

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Job summary

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. in Texas is seeking a Senior Program Manager to lead execution on the Eclipse launch vehicle program. You will own the integrated master schedule, daily cadence, and blockers, serving as the program’s reliable ground truth and execution partner.

The role interfaces with the CTO, the customer, and internal teams, with relocation support available. The position requires building tooling for status tracking, dashboards, and automated reporting, utilizing AI to streamline

Qualifications

8+ years aerospace program management or equivalent.
3+ years as a scrum master, agile program manager, or equivalent
Proficiency with MS Project, Smartsheet, Jira
Experience building program tooling and AI in reporting
Strong facilitation and clear communication with technicians, engineers, and executives

Responsibilities

Own the Eclipse integrated master schedule and the critical path to first stage delivery.
Run the execution cadence: daily standups, weekly sprints with must-win deliverables, and task-level tracking down to the manufacturing order.
Clear blockers the day they are raised, and keep the team supplied, informed, and focused.
Consolidate Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Test, and Quality into one program status, including spend and burn tracked with Finance.
Build program tooling, dashboards, trackers, and reporting, applying AI to status consolidation and schedule analysis.

Skills

Aerospace PM

Agile leadership

Scheduling

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Tools

MS Project

Smartsheet

Jira

Job description

At Firefly, we’re focused on making space attainable for everyone – including you! Each team member’s passion, dedication, and innovative ideas have a direct impact on fueling our successful trajectory into space. And there’s no shortage of meaningful projects to work on at Firefly. With launch, lunar, and orbital vehicles, Firefly has a diverse line of business with opportunities to get hands‑on experience launching rockets, operating in space, and landing on the Moon.

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Our Values

Headquartered in the Lone Star State, Firefly’s hardworking team reflects Texas’ GO BIG culture in everything we do. We build big, achieve big, and dream big. We’re building launch vehicles and spacecraft to provide rapid, reliable space access. We’ve achieved some incredible wins, including the first successful commercial Moon landing. And we’re dreaming bigger than this planet with ambitions to Mars, Venus, and beyond. Our core values are what drive us along the way.

Passion

Fireflies believe in perseverance, responsiveness, and mentoring others with a focus on inspiring a better future.

Accountability

Fireflies act with integrity and take ownership of our actions, commitments, decisions, and outcomes.

Fireflies work in alignment across teams and communicate clearly with mutual respect for one another.

Fireflies deliver high-quality work through technical rigor and timely disciplined execution for our customers.

We take care of our Fireflies with some of the best benefits in the industry. Our mission to make space for everyone starts with our employees and allowing them to make space for their family, their career, and their future.

Space for You

Unlimited PTO for exempt employees
3-month sabbatical for every 5 years of service
Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
Mental health services
Paid military leave

Space for Your Family

12 weeks paid maternity leave
4 weeks paid spouse leave
$20k towards family planning: fertility, surrogacy, adoption
Dog friendly workplace

Space for Your Career

$10k/year towards trade school or college
Ongoing coaching to advance leadership skills
- Employee-ownership with stock bonuses
- 4% Safe Harbor 401(k) matching
- $10k bonus for home purchase in Cedar Park, Texas

Job Openings

From launch technicians to propulsion engineers, Firefly has open roles across the company. We’re looking for passionate, bright innovators to join our team and help make space an achievable dream for everyone.

Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company that enables our world to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the only commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the only company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Our launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.

Job Description

SUMMARY

Eclipse is the medium-lift launch vehicle Firefly is developing with Northrop Grumman. The first flight vehicle is in build today, followed by rate production, and then a path to reusability. Taking a new launch vehicle from first article into rate production is a rare opportunity in this industry, and this role sits at the center of it.

Firefly is seeking a Senior Program Manager to lead execution on Eclipse. This person owns the integrated master schedule, the daily and weekly cadence, and the program's blocker list, serving as the Senior Director's execution partner and the program's most reliable source of ground truth. The work carries real visibility, reaching the CTO and the customer. The role is built to grow, with responsibility expanding as the program does.

Firefly also expects this Program Manager to build the tooling the program runs on: schedule and status dashboards, trackers, and automated reporting, with AI applied to the manual work of status consolidation and schedule analysis so that time goes to clearing blockers rather than producing reports.

The role is based at Firefly's Briggs, TX test and production site, where the hardware is built and tested. Relocation support is available. Candidates who meet most of the qualifications below are encouraged to apply.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Own the Eclipse integrated master schedule and the critical path to first stage delivery.
Run the execution cadence: daily standups, weekly sprints with must-win deliverables, and task-level tracking down to the manufacturing order.
Clear blockers the day they are raised, and keep the team supplied, informed, and focused.
Set milestone gate criteria and run the gates.
Manage inter-team and customer dependencies so hand-offs do not fail.
Own the tactical risk register and the issues list, and drive both to closure.
Consolidate Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Test, and Quality into one program status, including spend and burn tracked with Finance.
Report weekly on progress, velocity, and forecast confidence, and prepare executive and customer status material for the Senior Director.
Give the Senior Director an honest assessment of readiness, progress, and morale.
Build the program's dashboards, trackers, and reporting, applying AI to status consolidation and schedule analysis.
Support planning for the production ramp as the program scales.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
8+ years in aerospace program management, technical project leadership, or production program roles
3+ years as a scrum master, agile program manager, or equivalent execution role
Track record of delivering complex technical programs on schedule
Advanced proficiency with MS Project, Smartsheet, Jira, or similar, including critical path method, resource loading, and schedule risk analysis
Command of plan mechanics: how schedule and cost move together, baseline change impacts, where float sits, burn against physical progress
Experience building program tooling, such as dashboards, trackers, or automated reporting
Applied AI in a program execution context, with sound judgment about its limits
Strong facilitation and clear communication with technicians, engineers, and executives
Willingness to provide an honest assessment of program health, including when the news is unwelcome.

DESIRED

Launch vehicle, spacecraft, or comparable complex aerospace development, integration, or test experience
Production ramp or rate scaling experience
Agile methods applied to hardware development
Scripting, Power BI, or Smartsheet and Jira automation applied to program reporting
Mentoring or developing program management and scheduling talent

Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, relocation benefits, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Firefly is governed based on merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

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