Want to apply your project management skills to spaceflight?Space Tango is looking for a highly organized, detail-oriented project professional to help coordinate the technical, logistical, and documentation activities required to get payloads to space and safely back to Earth.
You do not need previous spaceflight or NASA experience. We can teach the industry-specific processes. We're looking for someone who is great at keeping complex projects organized, coordinating across different teams, managing deadlines and requirements, and making sure important details don't fall through the cracks.
What You'll Do- Coordinate technical projects involving engineering, science, operations, customers, and external partners
- Manage schedules, requirements, documentation, deliverables, and readiness milestones
- Track open actions, risks, changing requirements, and upcoming deadlines
- Keep internal and external teams aligned on priorities and next steps
- Prepare and coordinate technical documentation and review materials
- Learn NASA integration processes and help guide payloads through planning, testing, launch, on-orbit operations, and return
- Support launch and mission activities, including occasional travel and non-standard hours
Who We're Looking ForYou might be a great fit if you're someone who:
- Is exceptionally organized and enjoys bringing structure to complex projects
- Can manage multiple priorities without losing sight of the overall objective
- Takes ownership and follows things through to completion
- Communicates well with both technical and non-technical people
- Is comfortable asking questions and learning technical information
- Notices details and potential problems before they become bigger problems
- Can adapt quickly when schedules or requirements change
- Enjoys working across teams and getting people moving toward a common deadline
Your Background Could Be In...We're open to candidates from a variety of industries. Relevant experience could include
technical project or program management, engineering project coordination, manufacturing or new product introduction, laboratory or research operations, logistics, regulatory/compliance programs, systems integration, defense, aviation, medical devices, automotive, or other technical operations.Requirements
Qualifications
- Experience coordinating projects, programs, or complex operations
- Experience working across multiple teams and managing deadlines and deliverables
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Comfortable working with detailed documentation and technical information
- Ability to travel and support mission activities when required
