Description
Want to apply your project management skills to spaceflight?
Space Tango is looking for a highly organized, detail-oriented project professional to help coordinate the technical, logistical, and documentation activities required to get payloads to space and safely back to Earth.
You do not need previous spaceflight or NASA experience. We can teach the industry-specific processes. We're looking for someone who is great at keeping complex projects organized, coordinating across different teams, managing deadlines and requirements, and making sure important details don't fall through the cracks.
What You'll Do
- Coordinate technical projects involving engineering, science, operations, customers, and external partners
- Manage schedules, requirements, documentation, deliverables, and readiness milestones
- Track open actions, risks, changing requirements, and upcoming deadlines
- Keep internal and external teams aligned on priorities and next steps
- Prepare and coordinate technical documentation and review materials
- Learn NASA integration processes and help guide payloads through planning, testing, launch, on-orbit operations, and return
- Support launch and mission activities, including occasional travel and non-standard hours
Who We're Looking For
You might be a great fit if you're someone who:
- Is exceptionally organized and enjoys bringing structure to complex projects
- Can manage multiple priorities without losing sight of the overall objective
- Takes ownership and follows things through to completion
- Communicates well with both technical and non-technical people
- Is comfortable asking questions and learning technical information
- Notices details and potential problems before they become bigger problems
- Can adapt quickly when schedules or requirements change
- Enjoys working across teams and getting people moving toward a common deadline
Your Background Could Be In…
We're open to candidates from a variety of industries. Relevant experience could include technical project or program management, engineering project coordination, manufacturing or new product introduction, laboratory or research operations, logistics, regulatory/compliance programs, systems integration, defense, aviation, medical devices, automotive, or other technical operations.
Requirements
Qualifications
- Experience coordinating projects, programs, or complex operations
- Experience working across multiple teams and managing deadlines and deliverables
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Comfortable working with detailed documentation and technical information
- Ability to travel and support mission activities when required
Skills Required
- Experience coordinating projects, programs, or complex operations
- Experience working across multiple teams and managing deadlines and deliverables
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Comfort working with detailed documentation and technical information
- Ability to travel and support mission activities when required
What We Do
Space Tango is an industry leader in automated systems in the pursuit of health and technology manufacturing in space. Since 2017 through a NASA Space Act Agreement, Space Tango provides facilities to support iterative R&D and manufacturing in space. Through an integrated and intuitive approach, Space Tango works alongside its diverse partner base to embrace pathways to on-orbit production yielding valuable and transformational solutions for humanity. Space Tango believes the microgravity environment is a new frontier for discovery and innovation. We are focused on creating a new global market 250 miles up in low Earth orbit and envision a future where the next important breakthroughs in both healthcare and technology will occur off the planet. Recognized for our expertise in microgravity design and operations, Space Tango believes that by exploring with industry and educational partners of all kinds, we can improve life on Earth and inspire the next generation to continue to expand the horizon of this new frontier.
