Senior Technical Project Manager - Payload Engineering

Astranis • San Francisco, CA

17d • $150,000 - $210,000

About The Position

As a Senior Technical Project Manager at Astranis, you will play a critical role in driving the RF and communications engineering development across all of our programs. You will guide projects from initiation to closure, ensuring they meet objectives, stay on schedule, and remain within budget. This involves significant cross-functional collaboration and adapting to challenges throughout the project lifecycle.

Requirements

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering or similar
• >3 years in a project management role
• >3 years in an engineering role
• Strong communication skills
• Highly detail oriented
• Engineering experience in circuit design, electromagnetics and signal processing
• Proven ability to work in an ambiguous, fast paced environment, overcome obstacles with creative solutions, and clearly document/communicate tactical plans

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Jira and Smartsheets

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify and solve cross-discipline challenges
• Develop integrated schedules with measurable milestones for all payload units and subsystems
• Track and document project progress
• Serve as a liaison between the development engineering team and other project stakeholders, such as supply chain, software and operations
• Drive risk and opportunity implementation and organization
• Identify and implement strategies to ensure projects are completed on schedule
• Work closely within the Program Management team to ensure PM best practices and processes are implemented across Astranis

Benefits

• All our positions offer a compensation package that includes equity and robust benefits.
• Base pay is a single component of Astranis's total rewards package, which may also include equity in the form of incentive stock options, high quality company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance benefits, flexible PTO, 401(K) retirement, and free on-site catered meals.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees