Senior Launch Manager

Black Sky is a real-time intelligence company. We own and operate the world's most advanced space-based intelligence platform and provide customers satellite imagery, automated analytics and high-frequency monitoring of strategic locations, economic assets, and events from around the globe. Black Sky is trusted by the most demanding allied military and intelligence organizations and commercial companies to deliver foresight into critical matters that affect national security and the economy.

Black Sky's data enables governments and businesses to see, understand and anticipate change as it happens, giving them the ultimate strategic advantage so they can act quickly. Our global team works with cutting-edge technology to make a difference around the world and prides itself on being people-first, customer-focused and fun.

Black Sky is a real-time intelligence company. We own and operate the world's most advanced space-based intelligence platform and provide customers satellite imagery, automated analytics and high-frequency monitoring of strategic locations, economic assets, and events from around the globe. Black Sky is trusted by the most demanding allied military and intelligence organizations and commercial companies to deliver foresight into critical matters that affect national security and the economy.

Black Sky's data enables governments and businesses to see, understand and anticipate change as it happens, giving them the ultimate strategic advantage so they can act quickly. Our global team works with cutting-edge technology to make a difference around the world and prides itself on being people-first, customer-focused and fun.

Black Sky is looking for a program manager that can drive our launch campaigns to scale. This role focuses on engaging with launch providers, working the integrated launch schedule, and building up our internal processes to train and support our growing launch capability. This role thrives on the challenge of a highly complex and timely schedule.
This position spans a broad skillset of ability to manage hardware and test assets, support, execute and document testing and results, tracking program schedule, risk and system performance, review and distill data for team consumption and action. The ideal candidate has demonstrated the ability to manage their own efforts over a broad scope of work as an independent contributor, while forging solutions and risk mitigations from a set of critical constraints.

This candidate looks for problems and areas where process, support, and technical understanding can be used to find better and more efficient design and development solutions.
This position will be based out of our Seattle office on a hybrid schedule 2 days per week. Requirement to travel to both our launch campaigns and to our Tukwila facility office in support of launch training, launch preparation, and launch integration campaigns with travel up to 50%. Open to remote candidates with preference to local.

• Oversee the full scope of launch contracting, documents and deliverables and scheduling
• Develop integrated plans and schedules to support the testing and artifacts required to support launch.
• Own daily tasking and deconfliction of activities within areas of responsibility associated with the launch campaign
• Develop a training program for team members to support launch campaigns inclusive of defining roles and responsibilities, test procedures and best practices.
• Support the overall campaign as the onsite launch lead representative
• Serve as a main point of contact to grow relationships with launch providers and track longer term opportunities associated with the launch vendors.
• Proactively identify risks associated with launch…