Site Acquisition Lead

🕒 July 30

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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LeoLabs

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

🎖️ Defense

Manufacturing • Logistics • Defense

LeoLabs is a commercial provider of persistent orbital intelligence and space domain awareness services. The company operates a network of ground-based, rapidly deployable radars and a cloud-based, AI-enabled platform to track and catalog objects in low Earth orbit, deliver real-time conjunction alerts, threat assessments, launch support, and space traffic management data for commercial and government customers. LeoLabs combines radar hardware, authoritative datasets, and SaaS analytics to help operators protect assets, avoid collisions, and manage launch and on-orbit operations.

📋 Description

• Lead end-to-end site acquisition strategy and execution for radar and sensor installation sites across the U.S. and abroad • Identify and evaluate potential sites against technical, environmental, regulatory, and operational requirements • Conduct site feasibility studies with engineering, RF, and systems teams • Negotiate with landowners, utilities, municipalities, and government stakeholders • Coordinate permitting, zoning, and regulatory approvals • Partner with engineering and construction teams to ensure site readiness • Oversee due diligence covering access, power availability, data connectivity, and environmental considerations • Develop and manage acquisition schedules aligned with program timelines and deployment milestones • Mitigate risks related to land access, regulatory constraints, and deployment delays • Maintain stakeholder relationships across public and private sectors • Manage external consultants, advisors, brokers, surveyors, environmental specialists, RF consultants, utilities, and technical partners • Coordinate with Legal, Finance, Engineering, Corporate Affairs, and other internal stakeholders • Develop and improve acquisition processes, templates, checklists, and playbooks • Maintain comprehensive project documentation, decision records, version-controlled files, and audit support • Prepare executive updates on decisions, risks, recommendations, and next steps • Support long-term site portfolio planning and expansion strategy

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Real Estate, Engineering, Business, Project Management, or related field, or equivalent experience • 7+ years of experience in program management, project management, operations, business development, real estate/site development, site acquisition, infrastructure development, international expansion, or a related field • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams and competing priorities • Strong problem-solving skills in complex, ambiguous, or evolving situations • Strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills • Strong project management and organizational skills • Excellent written communication skills for explaining complex technical, regulatory, and commercial information • Strong attention to documentation quality, recordkeeping, and version control • Willingness and capability to travel extensively within the U.S. and globally if required • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Personnel Security Clearance • Must be located within the Pacific or Mountain time zones • Preferred: experience with government agencies, military installations, classified programs, radar, RF, telecom, defense, sensor infrastructure, multi-site acquisition, remote site development, utility coordination, external vendors, regulatory/zoning/permitting processes, and technical site-selection criteria • Preferred: active U.S. Secret or Top Secret Personnel Security Clearance

🏖️ Benefits

• Global workforce: flexible remote/hybrid opportunities • Work on complex, meaningful missions with real-world impact • Unlimited paid time off for most roles • Competitive salary and equity packages • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage • Access to the forefront of commercial space operations and defense innovation