What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mission Manager (Commercial) position at Impulse Space?
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Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Skills and Experience
As a Mission Manager at Impulse, you will be directly responsible for driving customer missions to successful outcomes. At Impulse, Mission Managers are the single technical point of contact for customers, launch providers, and regulatory agencies from contract signature through end of mission. In this role you will work alongside other Mission Managers as part of the Mission Management team but also interface extensively with other teams, including the Engineering, Mission Operations, and Business Development teams.
Responsibilities
- Manage all technical communication with customers onboard assigned missions
- Manage all communication with the launch service provider mission management team for assigned missions
- Maintain the schedule of deliverables for assigned missions, ensuring all deliverables to external parties are delivered on time and all deliverables owed by external parties are received on time
- Lead coordination of major reviews or technical interchange meetings with customers or launch providers
- Interface directly with engineers to collect technical work products needed for mission execution
- Assist the business development team in reviewing Statements of Work (SOWs) for prospective customer contracts
- Assist the product and mission management teams in defining processes and documentation standards to improve the efficiency of mission management activities
- Occasionally travel to support key customer meetings or hardware integration events (less than 20% travel)
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor s degree in a technical field
- 2 years of demonstrated experience as an engineer, mission manager, or program manager
- Ability to communicate technical material clearly and professionally
- Ability to represent company professionally to external parties
- Demonstrated proficiency with planning and managing schedules
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 4 years' of demonstrated experience as a mission manager or program manager in the space industry
- Experience working with launch service providers
- Experience working with relevant regulatory agencies
- Experience in a customer-facing role
- Demonstrated ability to operate in a startup environment
- Familiarity with spacecraft assembly, integration, and testing
- Familiarity with launch operations and/or spacecraft operations
Additional Information:
Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space 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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