Drive program delivery and cross-functional coordination for Cloud, Test, and Space Infrastructure teams. Manage workload, on-call scheduling, risk register, and process improvements; facilitate Agile teams, surface dependencies and escalations, and enable reliable, scalable satellite operations.
Wanna join the adventure?
Loft Orbital is making space simple by building and operating the infrastructure that enables our customers’ missions. We’re looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to join our Infrastructure team and help deliver complex work efficiently and predictably.
In this role, you’ll partner with our Cloud, Test, and Space Infrastructure teams to build joint roadmaps, manage cross-team dependencies, and drive projects through completion. You’ll connect Infrastructure with teams across Loft, ensuring requests are understood, commitments are clear, and progress and risks are communicated.
You’ll have significant autonomy in how you organize and drive delivery, working closely with engineering leaders and TPMs to introduce practical processes that help a growing, globally distributed organization scale its satellite operations.
About this Role:
- Partner with Infrastructure engineering leaders to develop quarterly plans and roadmaps that account for program needs, team capacity, and cross-team dependencies.
- Coordinate requests and commitments between Infrastructure and teams across Operations, Solutions, Product Engineering, and other functions. Partner with the Product and Program teams to coordinate work and status.
- Drive cross-functional projects from planning through completion, establishing milestones, clarifying ownership, and resolving or escalating blockers.
- Communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs to engineering leaders and program stakeholders.
- Establish and improve practical planning and delivery workflows, including Jira processes, documentation, and team coordination.
- Coordinate global on-call scheduling and follow-through on operational processes in partnership with engineering and operations leads.
Must Haves:
- 5+ years of technical program or project management experience supporting software engineering teams, including infrastructure, platform, or service operations.
- Experience coordinating delivery across multiple engineering teams and managing competing priorities and dependencies.
- Ability to follow technical discussions, ask clarifying questions, and translate engineering constraints into actionable plans.
- Demonstrated ability to introduce and adapt processes in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
- Proficiency with Jira and Confluence, including managing workflows and maintaining clear project documentation.
- Experience facilitating Agile development practices, such as Scrum or Kanban, and adapting them to team needs.
- Strong relationship-building skills and the ability to influence, negotiate commitments, and drive follow-through without formal authority.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including communicating risks and tradeoffs to executive audiences.
- Ability to travel at least once per quarter for cross-office collaboration.
Nice to Haves:
- Experience in a startup or rapidly scaling technical organization.
- Background in space or organizations building integrated hardware and software systems.
- Experience coordinating internationally distributed teams across time zones.
- Experience working closely with product management.
- Experience adapting planning and delivery practices across different teams, company sizes, or operating environments.
Some of Our Awesome Benefits:
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance option for employees and dependents
- Flexible Spending (FSA) and Health Savings (HSA) Accounts offered with an employer contribution to the HSA
- 100% employer paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term, and Long-Term Disability insurance
- Flexible Time Off policy for vacation and sick leave, and 12 paid holidays
- 401(k) plan and equity options
- Daily catered lunches and snacks in office
- International exposure to our team in France
- Fully paid parental leave; 14 weeks for birthing parent and 10 weeks for non-birthing parent
- Carrot Fertility provides comprehensive, inclusive fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits with financial support
- Off-sites and many social events and celebrations
- Relocation assistance when applicable
*Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other underrepresented people tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Loft, we value respectful debate and people who aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions. We strongly encourage you to apply, even if you don’t check all the boxes.
Who We Are
Loft: Space Made Simple.
Founded in 2017, Loft provides governments, companies, and research institutions with a fast, reliable, and simple way to deploy missions in orbit.
We integrate, launch, and operate spacecraft, offering end-to-end missions as a service across Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on-orbit AI, national security missions, and more. Leveraging our existing space infrastructure and an extensive inventory of satellite buses, Loft is reducing years-long integration and launch timelines to months. With more than 30 missions flown, Loft’s flight heritage and proven technologies enable customers to focus on their mission objectives.
With a growing fleet on track to reach 30 satellites by 2027, we are scaling up quickly across our offices in San Francisco, CA | Golden, CO | and Toulouse, France to meet accelerating demand for space infrastructure.
As an international company your resume will be reviewed by people across our offices so please attach a copy in English.
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