Program Manager, Spire Global
$130.5-171k
+ 📈 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
More information about location
Office located in Boulder, CO
Satellite data analytics
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Satellite data analytics
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$130.5-171k
+ 📈 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
More information about location
Office located in Boulder, CO
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide our customers with comprehensive data and analytics that protect our environment and our communities, transform global logistics, contribute to economic stability, and put moonshot goals within reach.
Role
Who you are
- You are an experienced program manager with a proven track record of delivering complex hardware engineering projects
- You have successfully led cross-functional teams through the design, development, and deployment of mission-critical hardware systems
- Your expertise extends to navigating intricate supply chains, managing technical risks, and ensuring seamless integration of complex engineering components
- You thrive in high-stakes environments, balancing technical, commercial, and operational priorities while maintaining strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and partners
- Your ability to drive execution, mitigate risks, and align diverse stakeholders makes you a trusted leader capable of delivering high-reliability solutions in the aerospace and space technology industries
- At least 5 years’ experience in managing complex programs in space, defense, aerospace or similar industry
- Bachelor's Degree in business, engineering, or applicable field of study or equivalent work experience
- Successful track record driving resource, scope, and schedule management across multiple programs simultaneously
- Must hold full U.S. Citizenship
- Self-motivated and proactive with the ability to apply critical and strategic thinking to shape solutions out of complexity
- Flexible and calm in the face of ambiguity and issues
- Experience interfacing and negotiating directly with commercial customers
- Exceptional communication and leadership skills with the ability to win the confidence of highly skilled engineers and executive staff alike
- Adept at building consensus across cross-functional teams
- Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
- Strong English language verbal and written communications
- Project Management Professional (PMP) / PRINCE II certification or equivalent
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft products
What the job involves
- Through Spire Space Services, customers build and operate their own satellite constellations on top of Spire’s proven satellite, ground, and web infrastructure. In your role, you will be instrumental in our customers’ success, managing the execution of the deployment of their applications to space
- In your role, you will be instrumental in our customers’ success, managing the schedule and budget of the deployment of their applications to space
- As a Program Manager, you will be responsible for all aspects of program management from initial planning, through execution and monitoring, to program completion, including a focus on timely delivery, budgets, resource allocation and management, and scope management
- The role also includes providing support, planning and oversight to proposals for new programs. As this is a customer-facing role, you will directly interface with representatives with customer teams and will be responsible for documenting and communicating essential information as well as leading discussions or initiatives to drive desired outcomes and conclusions
- The successful candidate will work with a variety of stakeholders to ensure deliverables and milestones are met within scope and budget
- This role will work across several departments to ensure aspects of various programs are compatible with resources to fulfil program requirements
- Serve as the customer's primary point of contact during the program and ensure full customer satisfaction throughout
- Lead development and maintenance of comprehensive program plans to enable appropriate resourcing, execution, monitoring and control
- Drive and influence on-time, within scope, and within budget delivery of programs
- Lead collaboration with procurement, manufacturing and engineering disciplines to manage program deliveries
- Perform proactive risk management, actively working to mitigate and retire program risks
- Develop high-level knowledge of Spire satellite, payload, and operations systems to assist customers during the development of their service with Spire, escalating to and working with Spire technical teams and subject matter experts as required
- Lead development of schedules, scope, risk and cost assessments for new program proposals
- Sound business judgement, commercial acumen and ability to solve complex problems
- Negotiating and influencing skills, establishing and maintaining relationships that promote a successful program outcome
- Access to US export controlled software and/or technology may be required
Our take
There’s been an increasing focus on big data in recent years, and Spire Global aims to lead the field in the biggest data of all - Earth Intelligence - with its suite of satellites collecting data from beneath the Earth’s surface to the edge of the atmosphere.
It identifies three main areas of use for its data - Aviation, Maritime, and Weather. Its capabilities in these fields include providing over 660 million position reports each day for the aviation industry, building intelligent routing and tracking systems for maritime shipping, and supplying in-depth weather forecasting and climate impact analysis.
Beyond this, Spire Global's satellite system has countless other applications, such as real-time observation in active conflicts, and wildfire tracking. The company exists within a rapidly-developing market, in which it has already made a big impact. 2023 has seen it collaborate with BlackSky and Skyline Partners, the latter partnership seeing Spire advance into the InsurTech space, as well launch new technology to enable optical inter-satellite links.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Aug 2024
$4.6m
GRANT
Sep 2019
$19.1m
GRANT
Total funding: $202m
Company benefits
- Health, wellness, and retirement resources
- Parental and family leave
- Name your own satellite: Be remembered throughout time by choosing a name for a LEMUR satellite
- Unbounded, flexible time-off policy
Company HQ
Tysons, VA
Leadership
Joel Spark
(Chief Satellite Architect)Former Research Assistant at Carleton University, News Editor at SpaceSafetyMagazine.com, and Intern on Space Mechanisms at EADS Astrium Germany.
Jeroen Cappaert
(CTO)Former CubeSat and Fluid Mechanics Researcher at NASA Ames Research Center.
Peter Platzer
(CEO)Previously worked as a Strategy Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group, Head of Quantative Research at The Rohatyn Group, Director of Deutsche Bank, and Nanosatellite Research Intern at NASA Ames Research Center.
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