Mission Director

2 weeks ago

Long Beach, California, United States Vast Full time
About Vast

Vast is a pioneering company dedicated to advancing space exploration and contributing to a future where humanity thrives in space. Our mission is to build artificial gravity space stations, enabling long-term stays in space without the adverse effects of zero-gravity. Our initial crewed space habitat, Haven-1, is scheduled to be the world's first commercial space station when it launches into low earth orbit.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Program Manager to support the technical and program management execution of Vast's customers and programs involving human spaceflight. This is a full-time, exempt position located in our headquarters.

Key Responsibilities
  • Manage all aspects of a given Vast's programs, including launching human crew and pressurized payloads to low earth orbital destinations.
  • Be personally responsible for end-to-end mission success.
  • Act as the face of Vast to our customers, ensuring their requirements are met or exceeded and the mission ends in success.
  • Create and maintain overall project schedules and budgets, focusing on meeting or exceeding customer milestones and deliverables.
  • Support multiple programs and competing priorities concurrently.
  • Lead technical projects from contract signature through mission completion.
  • Work with the customer to mitigate and resolve technical and programmatic issues that arise, adopting a success-oriented approach and passion for resolution.
  • Interface with internal engineering, management, and production teams to ensure on-time execution of the mission while meeting all customer requirements.
  • Collaborate with engineering and production groups to understand vehicle readiness and how changes impact requirements, vehicle risk, and launch dates.
  • Work closely with the Business Development team to support proposal generation and coordinate mission activities with overall business activities in an as-needed sales engineer role.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or science with 5+ years of industry experience.
  • Experience with technical project management.
  • Experience working hands-on with hardware or software technical projects.
  • Experience acting as the primary interface of a company and program to an external customer.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Master's degree in an engineering or science discipline.
  • Experience with U.S. Government customers, NASA preferred.
  • Experience with human spaceflight strongly preferred.
  • Professional experience working with technically competent customers within aerospace projects.
  • Working experience with leading U.S.-based launch suppliers.
  • Excellent technical writing skills, especially involving multi-party interface specifications.
  • Strong negotiation, conflict resolution, and leadership skills.
  • Highly detail-oriented and experienced working with cross-functional teams and external customers.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced and demanding start-up atmosphere.
  • Ability to thrive as a 'one-person team'.
  • Excellent communication skills to deal with the customer at the technical and management level as well as our internal engineering and production team.
  • Available to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed to support critical milestones or operations shifts as the program requires.
  • Willing to travel to launch sites, test sites, and customer locations throughout the United States and abroad as needed.
  • Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.
Compensation and Benefits

Base salary will vary depending on job-related knowledge, education, skills, experience, business needs, and market demand. Salary is just one component of our comprehensive compensation package. Full-time employees also receive company equity, as well as access to a full suite of compelling benefits and perks, including:

  • 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
  • Flexible paid time off for exempt staff and up to 15 days of vacation for non-exempt staff.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Short and long-term disability insurance.
  • Life insurance.
  • Free catered meals and snacks and beverages.
  • Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
  • One Medical membership.
  • ClassPass credits.
  • Personalized mental healthcare through Spring Health.
  • Other discounts and perks.
U.S. Export Control Compliance Status

The person hired will have access to information and items subject to U.S. export controls, and therefore, must either be a 'U.S. person' as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.62 or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing. This status includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents (green card holders), and asylees and refugees with such status granted, not pending.

Equal Opportunity

Vast is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Vast is governed on the basis of merit, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.

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