About the role

Muon seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager  to lead Muon Space’s Programs efforts, responsible for successfully delivering solutions, products, and technology while managing cost and schedule baselines contracts with the U.S. Government and Commercial Organizations. The Program Manager will be a key member of the Mission Engineering team and collaborate closely with Muon Space’s engineering, business, legal, finance, and operations departments. You will also support the portfolio's growth by fostering organic growth on existing contracts and supporting captures of new contracts. 

As a Senior Program Manager at Muon Space, you delight our customers and users with high-quality products and solutions delivered on time and on budget, meeting our contractual obligations. You are cognizant of how all the pieces need to come together for successful program execution and can turn that into well-organized roadmaps, schedules, and budgets that you then track throughout the program lifecycle. You will be responsible for monitoring and ensuring successful execution of Muon’s contracts that you manage. You will support business development through proposals, RFI responses, customer engagement, and organic growth.

Responsibilities

• Program Execution: Have full accountability for successful execution (cost, schedule, technical) of multiple current contracts. Update monthly financial actuals and forecasts. Provide monthly status updates to support regular Program Reviews.

• Processes: Support development of Muon Space’s program and mission management process, a set of documented processes for program start-up, execution, monitoring, and close-out. 

• Growth and Strategy: Lead or support proposal development as requested. Define and execute growth strategies for current and follow-on contracts. Support product management in company roadmaps by being the voice of the customer on their needs.

• All other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience working in program management of complex technical system development, deployment, and operations.

• 5+ years of hands-on technical experience, preferably in an engineering or similar capacity.

• Experienced leader able to build a plan, build a team, and execute with clear ownership and minimal oversight.

• Direct experience with space or aerospace industry program planning and execution.

• Proven ability to manage technical development and/or R&D scope and technical teams.

• Experience working with business development on business capture and supporting and/or leading proposals.

• Continuous learner that is not afraid to lead through uncertainty, take chances, and learn from his/her mistakes.

• Consistently takes initiative and champions causes that need to be addressed.

• Demonstrated emotional intelligence to interact and empathize with staff, colleagues, cross-functional teams, and customers.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Comfortable working in a dynamic and fast-paced development environment.

• Able to travel CONUS up to 25% of time.

• Able to obtain a security clearance. 

Nice-to-have Skills

• Experience with remote sensing satellite development and/or mission operations.

• Experience working with a diverse set of U.S. Government DoD, IC and Civil customers.

• Experienced with large competitive captures.

• Understanding of systems engineering processes and system architectures.

• Current and active security clearance.

• EO/IR Sensors, Optical Systems, Optical Payload experience

• Experience working with a diverse set of U.S. Government DoD, IC and Civil customers.

• Experienced with large competitive captures.

• Understanding of systems engineering processes and system architectures.

Salary

• The salary range for this role is $155K - 220K and will depend on a candidate's skills, geographic location, qualifications, and experience as defined during the interview process.

About Muon Space

Founded in 2021, Muon Space is an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations delivering mission-critical data. Our revolutionary, integrated technology stack enables customers to optimize every dimension of their missions for faster time-to-orbit and superior constellation remote sensing performance. Our state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Silicon Valley is optimized for manufacturing spacecraft and rapid, flexible payload integration at scale. From climate monitoring to national security, Muon Space is dedicated to delivering Earth Intelligence for a safer and more resilient world.

Taking Care of Our Team

At Muon salary is only part of our total compensation package. In addition to salary, we provide equity compensation as well as benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k retirement plan, short & long term disability and life insurance. We also offer three weeks paid vacation for new employees, along with 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time and paid parental leave.

Our mission embraces the entire planet and we believe our team should too.  Muon is dedicated to creating a diverse and dynamic company and workforce. We believe in equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or gender identity. We value diversity in the workplace, and that starts with our applicants. We encourage you to apply, even if you don't check all the boxes, and we look forward to reviewing your application! In addition, if you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know.

ITAR/EAR Requirements

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. The Company may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.