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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Program Manager, Payload and Space Systems - **Company:** Blacksky Holdings LLC - **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $150,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Microsoft Project, System Testing - **Published:** August 29, 2026 - **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/88174155/1 ## About the Role This position spans a broad skillset of ability to manage hardware and test assets, support, execute and document testing and results, tracking program schedule, risk and system performance, review and distill data for team consumption and action. The ideal candidate has demonstrated the ability to manage their own efforts over a broad scope of work as an independent contributor, while forging solutions and risk mitigations from a set of critical constraints. This candidate looks for problems and areas where process, support, and technical understanding can be used to find better and more efficient design and development solutions., * Bachelor's Degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience * Eight years of direct Project Management Experience or related experience * Experience working complex systems with hardware and integrated software dependencies * Experience working with vendors and highly integrated MS project schedule reporting * Experience working with integrated product teams * Highly skilled at managing schedules with critical dependencies and requirements or system engineering * Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% to support supplier activities and testing, * Experience with aerospace systems * Possess strong team leadership and inter-team cooperation and organization skills * Experience presenting information to external customers a plus * Hardware and test lab experience a plus ## Description * Support vendor management, trade study development, risk and program tracking for key subsystem development of the satellite prioritizing payload and satellite cross link systems. * Develop and maintain relationships with suppliers for emerging technologies. * Interface with the engineering teams to evaluate compliance to the specification and opportunities to improve the subsystem to business benefit * Track action items and schedules across engineering teams including maintaining accurate logs of vendor discussions and decision points. * Drive technical communications with vendors and internal teams shaping the development framework to support integrated product solutions. * Shepard the engineering team through key milestone reviews including but not limited to Preliminary Design, Critical Design and Test Readiness. * Support the entire development lifecycle for optimization and identify design and decision gates along with the developing the associated criteria. * Track action items and schedules across engineering teams, including maintaining accurate logs of design release status. * Coordinate with the procurement team to hand off new developments ready for stable production delivery cadences * Shepard the engineering team through key milestone reviews including, but not limited to, Preliminary Design, Critical Design, Test Readiness, and early production deliveries, as well as launch readiness review. * Manage reports and support development of standard documentation with respect to payload system qualification and flight testing to support our internal business targets. * Interface with the full system level schedule and identify key milestones to manage risk. * Facilitate and become an expert in satellite system testing including developing training material for other team members and longer term hand off to production ## Related Videos - [Model Based Systems Engineering in an Agile Product Development Process](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/68-model-based-systems-engineering-in-an-agile-product-development-process) - [How To Test A Ball of Mud](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/173-how-to-test-a-ball-of-mud) - [ WeAreDevelopers LIVE - the weekly developer show with Chris Heilmann and Daniel Cranney](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1365-wearedevelopers-live-the-weekly-developer-show-with-chris-heilmann-and-daniel-cranney) - [Crew Management System for Airlines: Plan duties for pilots & flight attendants worldwide](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1444-crew-management-system-for-airlines-plan-duties-for-pilots-flight-attendants-worldwide) - [How I Built QA from Scratch in a Scaling Startup - no fluff real life story](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2041-how-i-built-qa-from-scratch-in-a-scaling-startup-no-fluff-real-life-story) - [The user in the eye of the Cargo1492 storm](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/96-the-user-in-the-eye-of-the-cargo1492-storm) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Should senior developers refuse interview coding challenges?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/29-should-senior-developers-refuse-interview-coding-challenges)