Technical Program Manager

A thriving economy in space is needed to make life on Earth more vibrant, sustainable, and equitable. Space technology will enable global access to information, solutions to climate change, answers to global food security, products that transform healthcare, clean energy production, and more. Today, rocket launch options are slow, expensive, and unreliable. Stoke is building the world’s most efficient fully and rapidly reusable rocket designed to fly daily that will radically increase access to space and open up the space economy to safeguard our precious home, Earth.

Description

As a Technical Program Manager, you will be both the chief engineer and program manager for your development programs. You will be responsible for the technical progress, schedule, and budget, beginning from business development and proposal creation through development, manufacture, and test as part of program milestone and deliverable completion. As part of a small, well-supported team, you will have access to the resources you need to get the job done right while simultaneously boosting your skills at a pace that can’t be matched in most other roles. You must be ready to stay focused, move fast, self-direct, and learn on the fly.

Responsibilities

• Support Business Development activities such as customer discovery, solution ideation, and proposal writing
• Listen to customer input and develop conceptual system architecture, concept of operations, and functional capabilities which meet customer objectives
• Define system requirements to meet functional capabilities, define product breakdown, and decompose requirements to lower-level products
• Define and manage the technical progress, schedule, and budget for your programs
• Lead architecture trades for major systems, rapidly transform these decisions into real-life hardware implementations
• Develop system concept of operations, including for ground, flight, and recovery phase
  
  
  

Qualifications

• 5 years minimum experience in a related role preferred
• Demonstrated experience working on one or more development projects through the full lifecycle, from concept through operations, on an aerospace or similar high-performance product
• Proficiency working with interdisciplinary technical teams, including mechanical, electrical, and software engineers
• Exceptional command of engineering fundamentals, including orbital dynamics, rocket and/or spacecraft design, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, structures, command and control systems, and systems integration workflows
• Extensive experience with CAD tools and configuration management (Siemens NX and Teamcenter preferred)
• Proficiency with fluid analysis tools (Siemens AMESim, Thermal Desktop, Python, EES, REFPROP, Excel, Matlab, or equivalent)
• Proficiency in GD&T, tolerance stackups, and material selection
• Hands on experience performing fabrication and assembly of components
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in aerospace, mechanical, or electrical engineering, or similar
• Willing to relocate to Seattle, WA
  
  
  

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and basic life insurance
• 401(k) match
• Paid time off
• Flexible scheduling
• Equity
  
  
  

Compensation

Target Levels:

• Level 3 range: $124,400 - $186,500
• Level 4 range: $155,500 - $233,200
  
  
  

Our job posts are intentionally written to attract a wide variety of experience levels, and we make decisions about the right fit on a per-candidate basis.

Your actual level and base salary will be decided based on your specific experience and skill level.

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.

Equal Opportunity

The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including with respect to disability and veteran status. It is committed to compliance with all equal opportunity laws, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and Title VII. It does not discriminate on the basis of nationality, race, citizenship, immigration status, or any other protected class when it comes to employment practices, including hiring.

Employment at the Company is contingent upon satisfactory completion of reference and background checks, and on your ability to prove your identity and authorization to work in the U.S. for the Company. Employees must comply with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services employment verification requirements, and, therefore, they must complete an Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 at the start of employment and re-verify authorization to work periodically.

Separate from this I-9 process, this position entails access to certain technology and technical data that is restricted under U.S. export control laws and regulations. Employment or continued employment may be conditioned on your legal authorization to work with or have access to export control materials as necessary to perform your job.