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Inversion · 1 day ago

Staff Mission Manager

Los Angeles, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

$160K/yr - $180K/yr

10+ years exp

Inversion is focused on transforming space into a transportation layer for Earth. As a Staff Mission Manager, you will lead programmatic aspects of missions from contract award through to re-entry, ensuring all requirements are met while collaborating with engineering and business development teams.

AerospaceSpace TravelTransportation

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Lead all programmatic aspects from contract award through integration, integrated test, launch, on-orbit operations, and re-entry, ensuring contract requirements are met

Support multiple programs and competing priorities concurrently

Support proposal efforts to align new efforts with long-term strategic vision and engineering objectives, and to ensure contract requirements are executable

Interface with internal engineering, management, and production teams to ensure on-time execution and success of the mission

Collaborate with engineering to understand vehicle readiness and how changes impact requirements, risk, and launch dates

Work closely with the Business Development team to support proposal generation and coordinate mission activities with overall business activities

Lead technical projects from contract signature through mission completion

Work with the customer to mitigate and resolve technical and programmatic issues that arise with a success-oriented approach and resolution

Qualification

Program managementSystems engineeringCustomer experienceTechnical writingLeadership skillsTeam buildingCommunicationInterpersonal skillsOrganizational skills

Required

Minimum of a bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline

Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a multi-disciplinary engineering team building space-flight hardware

Experience acting as the primary interface of a company and program to an external customer

Typically 10+ years of experience in program management, project management, systems engineering, or operations with a focus on customer experience

Proven ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment. Demonstrated excellent verbal and written communication skills

This position is onsite at Inversion HQ in Playa Vista, CA

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State