Senior Director, Radar Technical Program Manager

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🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $230k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔧 Technical Program Manager

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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 multidisciplinary radar, hardware, manufacturing, deployment, and operational-readiness programs from definition through completion • Translate product requirements, technical objectives, customer commitments, and operational needs into program definitions with clear scope, success criteria, milestones, interfaces, dependencies, and decision points • Drive execution through ambiguity, evolving requirements, incomplete information, and aggressive schedules while maintaining accountability for program outcomes • Coordinate execution across Radar Systems, Hardware Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Global Infrastructure, Radar Operations, Product, and customer-facing Program Management • Own the integrated technical program baseline and cross-functional commitments for scope, schedule, cost, readiness, and risk • Establish change control, drive escalation and recovery, and ensure decisions are made by appropriate functional authority • Build schedules reflecting engineering maturity, critical paths, long-lead materials, supplier and site dependencies, resource contention, and schedule risk • Lead technical and deployment readiness reviews across the product lifecycle • Establish review entry and exit criteria covering technical and deployment maturity, test evidence, configuration status, documentation, and residual risk • Manage technical risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, changes, and decisions; drive root-cause analysis and recovery planning • Maintain traceability from contractual milestones and customer acceptance criteria to technical baselines, verification requirements, evidence, and delivery plans • Coordinate transition of radar and hardware products from engineering development into repeatable production • Integrate design release, materials, DfX, tooling, test equipment, calibration, quality, labor, capacity, yield, and cost targets into production plans • Partner with Supply Chain on supplier capability, lead times, material availability, obsolescence, and alternate-source readiness • Coordinate technical resolution of issues during prototype, pilot, and production builds • Integrate site development, regulatory dependencies, logistics, installation, system integration, acceptance testing, and operational readiness into deployment schedules • Define handoff criteria for Radar Operations and Maintenance teams and establish feedback loops for sustaining-engineering priorities • Provide forward-looking program reviews to the SVP and extended leadership team • Present technical, schedule, cost, and operational consequences of major decisions and identify required leadership support • Maintain a portfolio-level view of milestones, dependencies, risks, and capacity constraints • Partner with business operations and FP&A to connect scope and schedule changes to budget, cost, and margin impacts • Ensure external commitments are backed by credible technical execution plans • Build and lead a scalable technical program management function • Initially lead high-priority initiatives and build and lead a small team of technically credible program leaders as the portfolio grows

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, computer science, or another relevant technical discipline, or equivalent technical experience • 12+ years of experience in engineering, systems engineering, technical program management, hardware program leadership, or a related field • Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary systems from concept through development, prototype builds, verification, production readiness, integration, deployment, and operational use • Experience with complex electronic, RF, or electromechanical systems in aerospace, defense, space, telecommunications, or another hardware-intensive environment • Strong understanding of requirements, interfaces, architecture, verification, validation, configuration, and technical risk • Experience integrating hardware, software, manufacturing, supply chain, test, infrastructure, and operational workstreams • Experience building integrated engineering plans and managing milestones, critical paths, assumptions, resource constraints, and recovery plans • Ability to challenge technical assumptions and influence senior engineering leaders • Exceptional written, verbal, and executive communication skills • Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. personnel security clearance and satisfy applicable U.S. export-control requirements • Experience managing international infrastructure, permitting, spectrum, regulatory, or site-acceptance dependencies • Familiarity with requirements-management, PLM, ERP, scheduling, and engineering-work-management systems • Experience leading, mentoring, and developing technical program managers or other cross-functional program leaders, with the ability to build scalable program-management practices • Eligibility to obtain required U.S. Department of State ITAR authorizations

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus • Stock options • Benefits