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Mission Manager (Starshield)

SpaceX· Starshield Missions
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Hawthorne, CA$155k - $200kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Mission Manager for Starshield, SpaceX’s government-focused program leveraging Starlink technology for earth observation, communications, and hosted payloads. Serves as the main technical and programmatic point of contact for designated customers from early studies through launch and on-orbit activation, coordinating internal teams, supporting proposals, and ensuring contractual and technical requirements are met.

Responsibilities

  • Lead all programmatic aspects of programs, from contract award through integration, test, launch, and on-orbit operations to ensure all contract requirements are met.
  • Support proposal efforts to align new efforts with long-term strategic vision and engineering objectives, and to ensure contract requirements are executable.
  • Be the primary point of contact for your customer, to resolve issues, negotiate requirements, coordinate technical and contractual changes, and maintain positive relationships.
  • Plan and lead customer reviews through cross-company coordination, developing and briefing technical content on complex designs, trade studies, risks, and issues.
  • Collaborate with product engineering groups to understand vehicle readiness and how changes impact requirements, vehicle risk, CONOPs, and launch dates.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering or science discipline.
  • 5+ years of experience in program management, project management, systems engineering, or operations.
  • 2+ years of experience with US government projects or acquisitions.

Skills

Required:Program managementCustomer relationship managementProposal development

Benefits

  • Long-term incentives, including potential stock-based compensation and long-term cash awards
  • Discretionary bonuses and Employee Stock Purchase Plan options
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short- and long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid parental leave
  • Discounts and other perks
  • Paid vacation (3 weeks) and 10+ paid holidays per year
  • Paid sick leave policy as per company standards
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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