Site Acquisition Lead

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🏄 California – Remote

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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 site acquisition strategy and execution for radar and sensor installation sites across the U.S. and abroad • Identify and evaluate potential sites based on technical, environmental, regulatory, and operational requirements. • Conduct site feasibility studies in collaboration with engineering, RF, and systems teams. • Manage negotiations with landowners, utilities, municipalities, and government stakeholders. • Coordinate permitting, zoning, and regulatory approvals required for site development. • Partner with engineering and construction teams to ensure site readiness for installation and operations. • Oversee site due diligence, including access, power availability, data connectivity, and environmental considerations. • Develop and manage site acquisition schedules aligned with program timelines and deployment milestones. • Mitigate risks related to land access, regulatory constraints, and deployment delays. • Maintain strong stakeholder relationships across public and private sectors. • Manage external consultants, advisors, brokers, surveyors, environmental specialists, RF consultants, utilities, and other technical partners to ensure timely, high-quality deliverables. • Coordinate closely with LeoLabs stakeholders including Legal, Finance, Engineering, Corporate Affairs and other internal stakeholders to ensure site acquisition activities remain aligned with technical, commercial and program objectives. • In coordination with the broader site acquisition and pre-construction team, develop, maintain, and continuously improve site acquisition processes, templates, checklists, and playbooks to enhance consistency, efficiency and decision quality across the program. • Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including decision records, version-controlled files, and supporting documentation for auditability and knowledge retention. • Prepare clear executive updates, documenting key decisions, risks, recommendations, and next steps for leadership and program stakeholders. 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, balancing competing priorities while maintaining momentum, quality, and attention to detail. • Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate complex, ambiguous, or evolving situations where success depends on external partners, clear documentation, disciplined follow-up, and cross-functional collaboration. • Strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills. • Strong project management and organizational skills. • Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to distill complex technical, regulatory and commercial information into clear recommendations for stakeholders and leadership. • Strong attention to documentation quality, recordkeeping, and version control. • Willingness and capability to travel extensively within the U.S. and globally if required. • U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. 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