Mission Manager

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Vista, CA
140K-210K Annually
Senior level
Aerospace
The Role
As a Mission Manager, you will act as the primary contact for customers during all phases of mission management, ensuring all requirements are met from initial studies through to recovery. You will lead programmatic aspects, support business proposals, collaborate with engineering teams, and mitigate customer issues to ensure mission success.
Summary Generated by Built In

Turning Space into a Transportation Layer for Earth

Who We Are:

Eras of humanity can often be defined by a dominant transportation mode - horse-drawn chariots, ocean-going boats, or aircraft. These were spurred by a small group of people rigorously focused on building technology to achieve faster access to more of the world. We seek to usher in a new era of humanity defined by universal access to the whole globe free of borders and the presence of a routine way from space to Earth. To do this, we are building highly maneuverable re-entry vehicles that can loiter in orbit before precision landing back on Earth. 

What You’ll Do:

As a member of our Mission Management team, you will serve as the primary point of contact for customers from early capabilities studies through launch, on-orbit operations, re-entry, and recovery. You will support new business proposals from initial requirements verification through mission design, vehicle development, and test. You will work directly with the engineering team from diverse fields to quickly iterate on solutions and ensure customer requirements are met.

  • 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.

Required Qualifications:

  • 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.
  • 5+ 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 Torrance, CA.

Desired Qualifications:

  • Master’s degree in an engineering discipline.
  • Experience in working with government customers or acquisitions.
  • 8+ years applicable experience.
  • Strong interpersonal skills, and an ability to tailor communications to the audience.
  • Exceptional leadership, organizational, team building, and people management skills.
  • Excellent technical writing skills especially involving multi-party interface specifications.
  • Excellent communication skills to deal with the customer at the technical and management level as well as the internal engineering team.


The California annual base salary for this role is currently $140,000.00 - $210,000.  Pay Grades are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data.  Individual pay will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: interviews and an assessment of several factors that are unique to each candidate, job-related skills, relevant education and experience, certifications, abilities of the candidate and internal equity. 

ITAR Compliance:

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. Learn more about the ITAR here.  

 

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Inversion provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran status, or disability.  

 

Inversion collects and processes personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws.  If you are a US Job Applicant see the CCPA Privacy Policy Notice for further details.

Top Skills

Engineering
The Company
HQ: Torrance, CA
21 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

Inversion is developing low-cost, high cadence re-entry vehicles. Returning cargo & resources will be essential for humanity to continue to grow within low-earth orbit and beyond.

We believe in a future where returning from space is as common as launching to space.

Join us: https://boards.greenhouse.io/inversionspace

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