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As a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Loft Orbital Solutions, Inc., we specialize in providing mission-ready space infrastructure with unmatched efficiency.\nAt Loft, we empower our team with autonomy, ownership, and bold problem-solving opportunities while fostering a tight-knit, supportive environment. We believe that diversity, inclusivity, and community are the foundation of an open and innovative culture. We value kind, collaborative, and mission-driven teammates who excel in problem-solving and communication-because great solutions come from great teams.\nAre you ready to embark on this exciting journey with us? \nLoft Federal is seeking a Program Manager to support customer-facing execution across federal space programs and customer contracts. \nThis role will help manage day-to-day program execution for government and national security customers. The Program Manager will work closely with Federal leadership, senior program managers, engineering, mission teams, contracts, finance, security, subcontractors, and customers to keep programs organized, visible, and moving. \nThis is a hands-on program execution role. The person in this seat will support customer meetings, track commitments, manage deliverables, coordinate internal actions, maintain program status, identify risks, and help ensure Loft Federal executes against cost, schedule, technical, contractual, and customer requirements. \nThe ideal candidate is early to mid-career, highly organized, credible with customers, comfortable with technical programs, and ready to grow into larger program ownership over time. \nFinal title and leveling will be determined based on the selected candidate’s experience and demonstrated operating depth. Likely leveling ranges from Associate Program Manager to Program Manager, with potential Senior Program Manager consideration for a candidate with stronger independent customer-contract ownership. \nThe Program Manager will partner directly with Federal leadership, Program Managers, Engineering, Mission teams, Growth, Contracts, Legal, Finance, Security, Quality, and external customers. \nWhy This Role Matters \nLoft Federal is scaling its federal program portfolio across spacecraft, hosted payloads, mission software, mission operations, and national security space customers. \nAs the business grows, program execution needs more structure, rhythm, and customer-facing discipline. Customer commitments need to be tracked. Deliverables need to be managed. Technical teams need clear priorities. Risks need to be surfaced early. Contracts, finance, engineering, and mission teams need a shared operating picture. \nThis role will help Loft Federal execute customer contracts with more consistency and visibility. The person in this seat will help turn contract requirements, customer priorities, engineering work, subcontractor inputs, and internal decisions into organized program execution. \nWhat You Will Own \nSupport execution of customer contracts across cost, schedule, technical, contractual, and deliverable requirements. \nServe as a day-to-day customer-facing program interface for assigned programs, task orders, studies, demonstrations, or contract workstreams. \nPrepare for and support customer meetings, program reviews, technical interchange meetings, status calls, and internal execution reviews. \nTrack customer commitments, meeting actions, deliverables, risks, issues, decisions, and follow-up items through closure. \nMaintain program execution artifacts, including action trackers, deliverable trackers, risk registers, status reports, meeting notes, schedules, and program review materials. \nPartner with senior program managers and Federal leadership to ensure customer priorities are clearly understood and translated into internal execution plans. \nCoordinate with Engineering, Mission, Product, Security, Contracts, Finance, and subcontractors to keep program work aligned and moving. \nSupport development and maintenance of program schedules, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and internal execution plans. \nMonitor program execution against contract requirements, statements of work, data deliverables, funding limits, period of performance, and customer expectations. \nSupport financial discipline by helping track program budgets, burn rates, labor plans, material needs, subcontractor inputs, invoices, and forecast inputs. \nCoordinate with Contracts and Legal on customer deliverables, contract modifications, customer correspondence, funding status, and compliance requirements. \nSupport Engineering and Mission teams by tracking technical dependencies, interface needs, verification activities, test readiness, delivery readiness, and customer review inputs. \nIdentify execution risks early and escalate issues before they become customer-facing problems. \nSupport proposal and follow-on growth activities by helping capture customer needs, execution assumptions, lessons learned, risks, deliverables, and program inputs. \nHelp improve Loft Federal’s program management processes, templates, reporting cadence, and execution discipline as the business scales. \nRequired Qualifications \nU.S. citizenship required. \nAbility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance. \n3+ years of experience in program management, project management, engineering project coordination, technical operations, government contracting, aerospace, defense, space, national security technology, or a similar program-based environment. \nExperience supporting customer-facing programs, technical projects, government contracts, or complex engineering efforts. \nAbility to organize and track actions, deliverables, schedules, risks, dependencies, and decisions across multiple stakeholders. \nStrong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare customer-facing materials, meeting notes, status updates, and program review inputs. \nAbility to work directly with customers, technical teams, contracts, finance, security, and business leadership. \nWorking knowledge of program execution concepts, including scope, schedule, budget, risks, deliverables, customer commitments, and change control. \nFamiliarity with federal contracts, statements of work, contract deliverables, funding, period of performance, and customer reporting expectations. \nAbility to understand technical content well enough to coordinate across engineering and mission teams, ask informed questions, and communicate status clearly. \nStrong ownership, follow-through, attention to detail, and judgment. \nAbility to operate in a scaling business where systems, processes, and data are still maturing. \nPreferred Qualifications \nExperience supporting U.S. government, DoD, Intelligence Community, NASA, civil space, or national security customers. \nExperience in spacecraft, hosted payloads, satellite systems, mission software, mission operations, ground systems, RF systems, autonomy, edge processing, or complex hardware/software integration. \nExperience supporting customer program reviews, technical interchange meetings, contract deliverables, schedule reviews, or program status reporting. \nExperience with FFP, T&M, cost-plus, OTA, IDIQ/task order, subcontract, or similar government contracting structures. \nFamiliarity with FAR/DFARS, CUI, export controls, classified program environments, security requirements, and government contract compliance. \nExperience supporting proposals, ROMs, BOEs, customer white papers, RFI responses, or follow-on contract activities. \nExperience with Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Workspace, ERP, CRM, or program management tools. \nExperience supporting program financial tracking, labor planning, burn rate reviews, invoices, accruals, or forecast inputs. \nPMP, CAPM, Agile, systems engineering, project management, or related certification. \nActive Secret or Top Secret clearance. \nSome of Our Awesome Benefits:\n100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance option for employees and dependents\nFlexible Spending (FSA) and Health Savings (HSA) Accounts offered with an employer contribution to the HSA\n100% employer paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term, and Long-Term Disability insurance\nFlexible Time Off policy for vacation and sick leave, and 12 paid holidays\n401(k) plan and equity options\nDaily catered lunches and snacks in office\nFully paid parental leave; 14 weeks for birthing parent and 10 weeks for non-birthing parent\nCarrot Fertility provides comprehensive, inclusive fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits with financial support\nOff-sites and many social events and celebrations\nRelocation assistance when applicable\nPer Colorado law, we are required to disclose the base compensation range for this role. This range is intentionally wide as we assess individuals based on their unique abilities and experience to find the best fit for our needs. Ultimately, your compensation will be determined by your education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities. \nIn addition to a competitive salary and benefits package, you will find a truly remarkable culture guided by transparency and collaboration and work that is challenging and meaningful. We can't wait to meet you and see what you may add to our team!\nSalary Range\n$125,000—$210,000 USD\nEqual Employment Opportunity & Affirmative Action \nLoft Federal is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, veteran status, genetic information, disability, pregnancy, or any other legally protected status.\nAccessibility & Accommodations\nIf you require a reasonable accommodation due to a disability when applying for an open position, please contact us at  for assistance.\nWe Hire for Talent, Not Just Resumes\nResearch shows that while men apply for jobs when they meet about 60% of the qualifications, women and other underrepresented groups tend to apply only when they meet 100% of the listed criteria. At Loft Federal, we value diverse perspectives, respectful debate, and people who challenge assumptions. If you’re excited about a role but don’t meet every requirement, we strongly encourage you to apply.\nThird-Party Recruiters & Agencies\nNo outside recruiters, please. Loft Federal does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, staffing agencies, or third-party recruiters. 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