Senior Manager, Mission Management

Relativity Space•Long Beach, CA

About The Position

The Mission Management team sits at the intersection of customer needs and Relativity’s capabilities, ensuring seamless execution of our launch services from contract development through deployment on orbit. This team is uniquely broad in scope, requiring a systems-level mindset and the ability to translate across engineering and business functions. Far more than traditional program management, the role demands a deep cross-functional understanding and the ability to navigate both customer priorities and internal constraints. As we shift from development to operations, this team becomes central to execution, owning mission-specific cost, schedule, and performance while helping define how we scale our launch services. This role coordinates successful execution of launch missions across all technical, programmatic, and financial milestones. Serves as the primary point of contact for customers, owing the customer relationship, mission requirements and verifications, and is responsible for seamless planning and execution of integration and launch for individual customer satellites on dedicated and multi-manifest missions. Transitions effortlessly between discussions with government and international customers about interface requirements, vehicle engineers about mission specific hardware development, and executives about program status, issues, and risks. Supports our Business Development team by performing mission compatibility analysis, sales engineering and technical requirement negotiations to grow launch contract backlog. Supports launch system product development by integrating space market insights and customer product interface requirements to make smart trades and increase market capture.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in launch services, spacecraft integration, systems engineering, or technical program management in the aerospace industry
Proven track record working with multidisciplinary engineering teams and external partners with exceptional organization skill and time management
Demonstrated success contracting and executing complex commercial, Defense, and/or NASA customer programs
Ability to navigate ambiguity while maintaining relentless ownership and thinking critically in a fast-paced environment
Excellent oral, technical writing, and presentation skills with hands-on experience negotiating technical scope and deliverables
Ability to travel to domestic and international locations to support customers, launch campaign operations, vendors, and conferences.

Nice To Haves

Masters degree in aerospace, systems or related engineering field
Ability to obtain a Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance is preferred
4+ years mission management, spacecraft integration, or satellite constellation experience in a start up or agile development environment
Experience with FAR/DFAR contracts, export compliance and licensing (e.g. ITAR, EAR, TAA)

Responsibilities

Coordinates successful execution of launch missions across all technical, programmatic, and financial milestones.
Serves as the primary point of contact for customers, owing the customer relationship, mission requirements and verifications, and is responsible for seamless planning and execution of integration and launch for individual customer satellites on dedicated and multi-manifest missions.
Transitions effortlessly between discussions with government and international customers about interface requirements, vehicle engineers about mission specific hardware development, and executives about program status, issues, and risks.
Supports our Business Development team by performing mission compatibility analysis, sales engineering and technical requirement negotiations to grow launch contract backlog.
Supports launch system product development by integrating space market insights and customer product interface requirements to make smart trades and increase market capture.