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Owns final technical authority for US spacecraft programs, including system architecture, mission-specific customization, payload integration, technical risk, milestone reviews, and cross-disciplinary engineering standards. Builds and leads the US engineering organization, aligns US and European teams, develops reusable spacecraft capabilities, and represents technical solutions to sophisticated commercial, civil, and defense customers. The role is primarily on-site in Los Angeles with travel to customers and European headquarters.

Own day-to-day finance operations for the US entity, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, billing, collections, cash forecasting, vendor management, reconciliations, and month-end close support. Design scalable finance processes, improve controls, support budgeting and reporting, and partner with engineering, manufacturing, procurement, and sales on costs and purchasing decisions. The role requires hands-on ERP and accounting experience and operates across US and European teams.

Lead end-to-end satellite programs from contract award through on-orbit operations. Coordinate engineering, manufacturing, testing, launch, and mission operations teams while managing technical performance, schedules, budgets, suppliers, risks, milestones, and customer relationships. The role requires aerospace systems experience, program leadership, financial control, and familiarity with satellite development, environmental testing, launch operations, and government or commercial contracts. The position is primarily on-site in Denver with occasional travel to U.S. and European locations.

Manage end-to-end recruitment for space-related roles, including sourcing, candidate engagement, interviews, offers, and stakeholder management. Develop recruiting strategies, coach hiring managers, improve candidate experience and offer acceptance, maintain recruiting metrics, and design structured interview processes. The role requires space-industry hiring experience, sourcing expertise, knowledge of U.S. hiring compliance and California pay transparency, and familiarity with modern ATS and data-driven recruiting tools.

Own day-to-day spacecraft flight operations, including telemetry monitoring, anomaly investigation, risk mitigation, payload commissioning, pass and contact coordination, and operational logging. Develop and maintain flight procedures and automation scripts, support anomaly resolution, and improve operational processes. The role is on-site in Denver with occasional travel to Europe.

Develops software-flexible satellite systems by defining requirements, translating customer needs into technical specifications, and coordinating hardware and software engineering teams. Evaluates and negotiates satellite solutions, manages system and subsystem requirements, analyzes mission budgets, and guides projects from concept through deployment. The role requires expertise in nanosatellites or smallsats, satellite subsystems, technical communication, and customer collaboration.

Leads the end-to-end US supply chain, including sourcing, procurement, supplier quality, inventory, production planning, warehousing, logistics, and trade compliance. Builds the domestic supplier base, negotiates costs and lead times, configures ERP/MRP systems, establishes warehouse operations, and drives supplier performance. The role partners cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, sales, warehouse, finance, and customs, initially working hands-on before building and leading a supply chain team.

Hands-on senior IT systems and security administrator responsible for on-site IT support, managing on-prem and government cloud (GCC High, Azure Government, AWS GovCloud) infrastructure, identity and access, endpoint and network security, incident response, vulnerability management, backups/disaster recovery, compliance (CMMC, NIST, FedRAMP, ITAR), and coordinating with vendors and global teams.

As a Contracts Manager, you will manage complex contracts for government and commercial space projects, ensure compliance with regulations, and coordinate between teams and stakeholders.