Program Manager

Loft Federal is committed to delivering theU.S. national security space communityafast, affordable, and streamlinedpathway to orbit. As awholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Loft Orbital Solutions, Inc., we specialize in providing mission-ready space infrastructure with unmatched efficiency.

At Loft, we empower our team withautonomy, ownership, and bold problem-solving opportunitieswhile fostering atight-knit, supportive environment. We believe that diversity, inclusivity, and community are the foundation of an open and innovative culture. We valuekind, collaborative, and mission-driven teammates who excel inproblem-solving and communication—because great solutions come from great teams.

Are you ready to embark on this exciting journey with us?

Loft Federal is seeking a Program Manager to support customer-facing execution across federal space programs and customer contracts.

This role will help manage day-to-day program execution for government and national security customers. The Program Manager will work closely with Federal leadership, senior program managers, engineering, mission teams, contracts, finance, security, subcontractors, and customers to keep programs organized, visible, and moving.

This is a hands-on program execution role. The person in this seat will support customer meetings, track commitments, manage deliverables, coordinate internal actions, maintain program status, identify risks, and help ensure Loft Federal executes against cost, schedule, technical, contractual, and customer requirements.

The ideal candidate is early to mid-career, highly organized, credible with customers, comfortable with technical programs, and ready to grow into larger program ownership over time.

Final title and leveling will bedeterminedbased on the selected candidate’s experience anddemonstratedoperating depth.

Likely levelingranges from Associate Program Manager to Program Manager, with potential Senior Program Manager consideration for a candidate with stronger independent customer-contract ownership.

The Program Manager will partner directly with Federal leadership, Program Managers, Engineering, Mission teams, Growth, Contracts, Legal, Finance, Security, Quality, and external customers.

Loft Federal is scaling its federal program portfolio across spacecraft, hosted payloads, mission software, mission operations, and national security space customers.

As the business grows, program execution needs more structure, rhythm, and customer-facing discipline. Customer commitments need to be tracked. Deliverables need to be managed. Technical teams need clear priorities. Risks need to be surfaced early. Contracts, finance, engineering, and mission teams need a shared operating picture.

This role will help Loft Federal execute customer contracts with more consistency and visibility. The person in this seat will help turn contract requirements, customer priorities, engineering work, subcontractor inputs, and internal decisions into organized program execution.

• Support execution of customer contracts across cost, schedule, technical, contractual, and deliverable requirements.
• Serve as a day-to-day customer-facing program interface for assigned programs, task orders, studies, demonstrations, or contract work streams.
• 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…