Senior Technical Program Manager, Capella Space

• Experience leading technology projects through full program lifecycle including planning, execution, project closure, stakeholder management and issue/dependency management
• Experience developing and maintaining a comprehensive project portfolio, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technology projects, and tracking and maintaining schedules and status across multiple development projects
• Ability to prioritize projects and programs based on strategic importance, resource availability and business impact
• Experience managing complex budgets including labor forecasts, actuals, material subs
• Mentor and knowledge share with project resources ensuring accountability for project deliverables
• Strong, clear and concise documentation and communication skills with broad range of technical/non-technical resources, internal/external audiences, and all levels of the organization
• Ability to translate technical requirements into work delivery plans
• Strong Problem-solving and proven data driving-decision making abilities, proactively identifying critical-path actions, risks, and opportunities to accelerate progress
• Experience with varying project management methodologies (ie. Waterfall, agile, scrum)
• Hands-on experience with leading teams through agile transformation
• Proven self-starter with experience in a fast-paced, nimble environment
• To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Capella Employees must be a U.S. citizen, lawful U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or the U.S. Department of Commerce, as applicable. Learn more about ITAR here

Desirable

• The Space Component Development workstream is ramping up many exciting projects and are looking for an additional team member to help manage, plan, and execute successfully
• Ongoing efforts span from component level upgrades to total spacecraft design iterations
• This is an exciting opportunity to join a dedicated, collaborative, and supportive team to achieve novel on-orbit capabilities
• This role will directly contribute to large scale and high impact efforts within the company. You will help drive Capella’s ability to launch cutting edge technologies to space
• Mentor and knowledge share with project resources ensuring accountability for project deliverables