Technical Program Manager, Spcacecraft RF and Regulatory

True Anomaly, Inc.; Denver, Long Beach, Washington (CO, CA, District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

True Anomaly, Inc. in Denver, CO (also in Long Beach, CA and Washington DC) seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead spacecraft RF licensing and regulatory programs across missions.

You will coordinate licensing activities, manage regulatory timelines, and align RF requirements with engineering, security, and legal teams to ensure compliant, on-time deliveries. The ideal candidate will drive cross-functional collaboration, manage external stakeholders, and navigate ITAR considerations

Qualifications

• Experience submitting spacecraft/ground station FCC and NOAA licenses on tight timelines.
• High attention to detail.
• Proven skills in team building, time management, conflict resolution, and communications.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong oral and written communication and interpersonal skills.
• Bachelor’s degree with 3+ years of relevant experience, or higher degree; or 7+ years experience in lieu of a degree.

Responsibilities

• Manage licensing, ground station coordination, and RF platform development for all True Anomaly missions.
• Align regulatory and RF requirements to ensure compliance and gaps closure.
• Direct internal and external stakeholders to support regulatory programs across functions.
• Support PMO with risk assessments, schedule estimates, and mitigations.
• Provide strategic direction, set priorities, and resolve day-to-day issues.
• Perform risk assessments, tracking, escalation, and closeout to ensure performance.
• Oversee subcontractor activities and deliverables.
• Lead preparation of applications, studies, and deliverables.

Skills

FCC/NOAA licensing

Attention to detail

Program management

Team leadership

Multitasking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Graduate degree

Experience in lieu of degree

Job description

Technical Program Manager, Spcacecraft RF and Regulatory

Denver, CO, or Long Beach, CA or Washington DC

Space is a warfighting domain. True Anomaly seeks those with the talent and ambition to build the technology that secures it.

OUR MISSION

True Anomaly delivers decisive capabilities for space superiority. We build autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors — enabling the U.S. and its Allies to secure the space environment and counter threats from the ultimate high ground.

OUR VALUES

• Be the offset.We create asymmetric advantages with creativity and ingenuity.
• What would it take?We challenge assumptions to deliver ambitious results.
• It’s the people.Our team is our competitive advantage and we are better together.

YOUR MISSION

True Anomaly is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead mission-critical ground station, communication, and regulatory programs across our missions. The ideal candidate will have familiarity with spacecraft RF communications and an understanding of regulatory requirements in both spectrum and spacecraft imaging licensing. The candidate must be comfortable operating in fast-paced, regulated environments and be able to drive alignment across engineering, security, legal, compliance, and business operations teams. Your expertise in working with external stakeholders to facilitate timely and positive outcomes will play a key role in advancing our national security mission and operational excellence in the space domain.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage the full spectrum of spacecraft licensing, ground station coordination, and RF platform development for all True Anomaly missions
• Ensure alignment across the organization for regulatory and RF requirements to ensure compliance and closure where gaps exist.
• Direct the responsibilities and activities of internal and, where necessary, external stakeholders to support regulatory programs including program management, systems engineering, communications and IT, mission operations, facilities management, security, safety, and contracts/financial/supply chain support functions
• Support the Program Management Organization in identifying, providing risk assessments, schedule estimates, and recommendations for mitigations of known issues; developing recommended process improvements; facilitating opportunities with Finance
• Provide strategic direction, set priorities, and resolve day-to-day issues to deliver operational licenses for True Anomaly spacecraft
• Perform risk/issue assessments, tracking, resolution, escalation, and closeout to ensure satisfactory program performance
• Oversee and manage subcontractor activities and deliverables
• Lead preparation of applications, studies, and deliverables

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with preparing, reviewing, and submitting spacecraft and/or ground station FCC and NOAA license applications to tight timelines
• High attention to detail
• Proven experience and skills in team building, time management, conflict resolution, communication, briefing, presentation, strategic thinking, marketing, and literacy in the program management disciplines
• Ability to accommodate multiple projects
• Strong oral and written communication and interpersonal skills
• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 3 years of prior relevant experience; Or, Graduate Degree and a minimum of 1 years of prior related experience; Or, in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Eligible for Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance
• Ability to work within a cross-functional, geographically dispersed team environment to complete contractual commitments
• Experience with customer interfacing and National Security aerospace programs
• Ability to establish new & further refining existing templates, tools, & guidelines for program documentation & execution
• Experience with ensuring compliance with approved Corporate and ISO 9001:2000 Policies and Processes

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.

True Anomaly is committed to equal employment opportunity on any basis protected by applicable state and federal laws. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us.

Secret Clearance may be required for this role. TS/SCI strongly preferred.

This position can be located in Denver, CO, Long Beach, CA, or Washington DC.

Voluntary Self-Identification

For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey.Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiringprocess or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in aconfidential file.

As set forth in True Anomaly’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection.As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measurethe effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categoriesis as follows:

A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.

A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.

An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.