Reflect Orbital

Reflect Orbital

Director of Mission Management

Hawthorne, CA · Director

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About the role

  • You'll coordinate launch opportunities, regulatory approvals, spectrum access, launch-provider integration, mission schedules, and external deliverables across an increasingly ambitious constellation roadmap.

Responsibilities

  • Own mission management across Reflect's spacecraft portfolio, including launch planning, launch-provider integration, regulatory execution, external deliverables, launch campaigns, and mission readiness
  • Develop launch strategies that balance schedule, orbit, cost, capacity, technical compatibility, regulatory readiness, and program risk
  • Own senior relationships with launch providers, launch integrators, regulatory agencies, outside counsel, spectrum coordinators, and other critical mission partners
  • Lead launch-opportunity evaluation and support launch-service contracting, negotiations, and manifest decisions in partnership with engineering, finance, and legal
  • Own Reflect's FCC and spectrum strategy, including licensing pathways, modifications, technical exhibits, coordination, milestone compliance, reporting, and engagement with outside counsel and regulators
  • Establish the operating system for mission management: integrated schedules, deliverable trackers, document control, readiness reviews, risk reviews, decision logs, escalation paths, and post-mission lessons learned
  • Lead mission-readiness reviews and provide leadership with a clear, unvarnished assessment of schedule, regulatory status, external dependencies, and residual risk
  • Build and lead a high-performing mission-management team as launch cadence increases, with clear ownership across individual missions and shared regulatory or launch functions
  • Create repeatable processes that improve reliability and visibility without introducing unnecessary bureaucracy

Requirements

  • You have 8+ years of experience in spacecraft mission management, launch integration, launch services, regulatory affairs, satellite program management, or a closely related field.
  • You have personally taken multiple spacecraft missions through launch-provider integration, regulatory approval, launch readiness, and launch
  • You have deep familiarity with launch-provider processes, mission integration schedules, spacecraft data packages, safety reviews, interface requirements, launch campaigns, and readiness reviews
  • You have managed multiple missions, launch opportunities, or regulatory workstreams simultaneously and understand how to prioritize across a portfolio
  • You have built a team, function, or operating system in an environment where the organization was growing faster than its existing processes
  • You are comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and can distinguish between manageable execution risk and a genuine threat to the mission
  • You are willing to remain deeply hands-on rather than delegating the underlying mission work before the organization is ready
  • Build the integrated launch and regulatory roadmap required to support Reflect's spacecraft-production and constellation-deployment plans
  • Identify portfolio-level launch, licensing, spectrum, and integration risks early and drive the decisions or investments required to resolve them
  • You have 8+ years of experience in spacecraft mission management, launch integration, launch services, regulatory affairs, satellite program management, or a closely related field. We care more about repeated mission ownership than years.
  • You have strong working knowledge of FCC spacecraft licensing and spectrum coordination and can lead the process effectively alongside technical experts and outside counsel
  • You can move fluidly between constellation-level strategy, executive decisions, partner negotiations, detailed schedule reviews, and correcting an incomplete submission
  • You have enough technical fluency to challenge assumptions, recognize missing analysis, and ensure technical deliverables actually answer the requirement
  • You communicate exceptionally well with regulators, launch providers, engineers, attorneys, executives, and commercial partners
  • You operate with urgency, follow through relentlessly, and create accountability without producing process for its own sake

Compensation

  • Reflect Orbital's success will hinge on our team, which is why our compensation and benefits plan is designed to reward our employees and support their families as generously as we're able.

Benefits

  • Reflect Orbital's success will hinge on our team, which is why our compensation and benefits plan is designed to reward our employees and support their families as generously as we're able.
  • Broad choice of medical/dental/vision coverage, Reflect covers 100% of each base-policy
  • Access to HSA, FSA, and 401K
  • Unlimited paid time off, two-weeks per year encouraged

Company info

  • At Reflect, you will be expected to move fast, have a lot of ownership and, most importantly, be able to effect change.
  • If this excites you, we are interested in hearing about your best work and accomplishments across any domain and from any points in your life.
  • Ensure each mission has a credible integrated schedule, clear ownership, complete external deliverables, active risk management, and an objective definition of launch readiness

Equal opportunity

  • Reflect Orbital is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Reflect Orbital is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
  • More about Reflect Orbital:
  • Learn more about our team here. https://www.reflectorbital.com/team
  • Equal Opportunity Employer
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