Director of Program Management

Agile Space Industries, Inc.•Durango, CO

5d•$180,000 - $220,000•Onsite

About The Position

Agile Space Industries is seeking a solutions-oriented leader of execution to deliver complex hardware programs from initial concept through qualification and production, ensuring customer satisfaction. This role offers significant scope, impact, and visibility, reporting directly to the COO. It involves leading the team responsible for turning ambitious propulsion programs into flight-ready hardware while balancing product maturation and delivery in a challenging, fast-paced environment. The role requires a blend of senior leadership and hands-on involvement, collaborating with various departments including Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Test, Finance, Contracts, and Business Development. The product portfolio includes New Product Development and Production Delivery, with a focus on predictable cost, quality, throughput, and rapid on-time delivery. The Director of Program Delivery is accountable for balancing product maturity with engineering, driving program schedules, meeting customer commitments, and achieving financial outcomes.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Business Administration, Program Management, or a related field.
Fifteen or more years of experience in complex hardware development, manufacturing, or program management, including proven success delivering multi-million-dollar programs.
Demonstrated experience managing new product development programs and taking products from development into full-rate production.
Strong understanding of the hardware lifecycle, including requirements, design, procurement, manufacturing, inspection, testing, qualification, and delivery.
Experience managing integrated schedules, budgets, risks, forecasts, and customer commitments.
Proven leadership across cross-functional engineering and operations teams (Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Test, Finance, Contracts, Business Development, with strong executive and customer-facing communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Delivery of highly technical, mission-critical hardware related to the space industry.
Strong understanding of project forecasting and finance.
AS9100-certified quality systems.
ITAR, EAR, and controlled government information environments.
PMP or similar certification

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a team of 10+ project management professionals who drive delivery, adherence to company values and build communication tools to streamline information flow for company effectiveness.
Establish consistent methods, metrics, review cadences, and escalation processes with a bias that uses information to drive outcomes, not reporting.
Balance priorities and resources across development and production programs.
Establish systems that streamline informative portfolio updates covering schedule, cost, maturity, production readiness, risk, and financial performance.
Lead project managers responsible for driving development of products based on internal and customer requirements through design, qualification, production, acceptance, and delivery.
Accountable for customer satisfaction, schedule, cost, engineering, quality, and contractual milestones.
Drive delivery team clarity in high-paced and challenging development environment to deliver on schedule while resolving the challenges of product development.
Establish and maintain plans harmonizing engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, inspection, testing, and delivery.
Lead delivery on production programs with responsibility for cost, schedule, quality, throughput, and delivery.
Work with the factory management team to establish delivery plans based on demand, material availability, manufacturing capacity, testing capacity, and labor.
Serve as a senior customer-facing leader during the delivery stage, providing clear and proactive communication on milestones, hardware status, risks, decisions, and recovery plans.
Partner with Business Development, Contracts, Finance, Engineering, and Operations to create executable proposals and program baselines.
Actively drive delivery risk burndown across technical, schedule, cost, supply-chain, production, test, and customer risk and opportunity management framework.
Support compliance with AS9100, NASA, Department of Defense, commercial space, and customer-specific requirements.