Space Systems Technical Project Manager

Space Systems Technical Project Manager

About Us:

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 talented and creative Space Systems Project Manager who is not only comfortable with a high level of ambiguity but can also quickly translate new information into decisive action by a large team through relying on feedback from a group of stakeholders. This position requires an independent thinker and self-directed individual who is consistently striving to learn, grow, and lead.

This position will manage vendors, drive trades to internal and external stakeholders, and challenge the assumptions of cost, schedule, and performance to optimize for Black Sky's business needs. This program manager will support a team of Systems and Mechanical engineering teams and work within the broader program architecture of Satellite and Launch programs  scope of this role is the design, buy, build, test lifecycle within the structures subsystem: from early concept and requirement definition through HW receipt and readiness for vehicle integration.

Additionally, this role will include ownership of our launch verification and test campaigns.

This position is a critical element of the Black Sky's Internal programs team. 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. Finally, the candidate should have a demonstrated ability and willingness to lean in, solve new problems, and operate as a team.

This position spans a broad skill set 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. 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 South Lake Union office with consistent time spent in our production facility in Tukwila. Remote candidates considered with willingness to travel to launch site up to 3 times per year for 2 weeks, as well as Black Sky production facilities as needed, but no more than 25% overall.

Responsibilities:

* Oversee the full scope of design, buy, build, and test within the structures subsystem and launch verification and test campaigns, managing both internal and external efforts

* Develop integrated plans and schedules, obtaining buy-in from key engineering, program management, procurement, and production stakeholders

* Own daily tasking and deconfliction of activities within areas of responsibility

* Support task management for the engineering team including, risk, and integrated schedule management for the program for key subsystem development of the satellite and key hardware.

* Interface with the engineering teams to evaluate compliance with the specification and opportunities to improve the subsystem to benefit business and schedule performance.

* Track action items and schedules across engineering teams, including maintaining accurate logs of design release status.

* Coordinate with the procurement team to support ordering and receipt of build to print parts in support of the broader build schedules.

* Align timeline for testing, analysis, and qualification to support structural evaluation of components.

* Drive technical communications with the larger technical teams and engineering leadership to shape the development framework to support test, qualification, and launch planning.

* Shepard the engineering team through key milestone reviews including, but not limited to, Preliminary Design, Critical Design, Test Readiness, and early production deliveries.

* Support supply chain in understanding engineering changes, performance, and key dependencies for supplier test and delivery schedules.

* Support the entire development lifecycle for optimization and identify design and decision gates along with developing the associated criteria.

* Support qualification testing, testing review, and set up, as well as own the programmatic timeline for component…