Sr. Program Manager – Flight Software Portfolio Management
About The Position
Intuitive Machines is seeking a Sr. Program Manager, Flight Software Portfolio Management, to join our Flight Software leadership team. This position can be performed remotely within the US. This is a new role within the Flight Software Organization reporting to the Sr. Director of FSW and GNC. The Flight Software Program Manager will drive financial and operational excellence across the FSW portfolio by creating consistent standards for cost tracking, work breakdown structures, and cost estimation. These standards will improve our competitiveness in proposals, enable predictable program execution, and support smart decisions about resource investments and capacity planning. As a strategic advisor to FSW leadership, this role provides financial analysis, cost and schedule performance tracking, and actionable insights that optimize the portfolio and guide decisions on resource strategy and organizational growth.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of project cost accounting principles, indirect/direct cost allocation, and overhead structures
- Experience developing budgets, forecasts, and Estimate at Completion (EAC) analysis
- Expert knowledge of WBS creation, standardization, and management
- Ability to analyze financial data, identify trends, and develop actionable insights
- Proficiency with integrated master schedules, critical path analysis, risk management and milestone tracking
- Experience with resource loading, capacity planning, and skills matrix development
- Understanding of both Agile/Scrum and Waterfall methodologies
- Experience defining and tracking KPIs, dashboards, and program health indicators
- MS Project, SAP, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Advanced Excel, Power BI, Tableau, or similar analytics tools
- Familiarity with parametric estimating tools and cost databases, particularly SEER-SEM.
- Understanding of flight software development processes, phases, and deliverables
- Familiarity with industry standards (DO-178C, NASA NPR 7150, CMMI) as applicable
- Basic knowledge of systems engineering principles and V&V processes
- Ability to present complex financial and performance information to senior leadership
- Proven ability to work effectively across engineering, finance, and business teams
- Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Business/Finance.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in engineering, engineering operations, program management, project controls, cost management, or related technical disciplines.
Nice To Haves
- 3 years of experience in FSW and Aerospace
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Agile/Scrum Certifications
- Experience with CMMI-3
Responsibilities
- Drive consistent cost-estimation tools, techniques, and practices across all existing FSW/GNC projects and proposal efforts.
- Monitor and analyze project cost performance, identifying variances and trends to drive actionable insights to the FSW leaders to maintain cost baselines.
- Coordinate with Finance to drive proper cost allocation, tracking, and reporting across the FSW portfolio.
- Interface with proposal activities to estimate and justify FSW/GNC BOEs.
- Create dashboards, reports, and metrics that provide visibility into FSW organizations’ health.
- Collaborate with the FSW Leaders and FSW Chief Engineering team to align technical capability growth for current and future business needs, enabling proactive workforce planning and skills investment decisions.
- Facilitate regular and timely meetings with FSW leaders to review resource needs and project status, identify improvement opportunities, and implement process enhancements that drive efficiency.
- Collaborate with Business Development and Proposal Team to establish and maintain standardized WBS templates and frameworks for new business proposals.
- Create WBS dictionaries and guidelines to ensure uniform application across the organization.
- Ensure consistency in cost estimation approaches across all FSW bids and proposals.
- Serve as the central coordination POC between FSW Leaders and other SW Teams (Ground Software, Integration and Test etc.), finance, and program stakeholders.
- Drive communication with the stakeholders to ensure that the dependencies to and from FSW are understood and met timely.
Benefits
- paid time off
- health and welfare insurance
- 401(k)
- incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
