Relativity Space
Customer Program Manager
Long Beach, California
Sponsorship not specified$171k-$800kDetected 5 days ago
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About the role
- Serve as the primary interface between technical teams, leadership, and customers, facilitating technical reviews, communicating program status, and enabling timely decision-making.
- Excellent commercial and financial awareness, with experience framing decisions in terms of cost, timing, risk and performance.
Responsibilities
- Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity.
- Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven't been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up.
- Whether you're in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you'll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time.
- Own program execution by maintaining integrated schedules, preparing customer-facing status reports, coordinating and reviewing technical deliverables, and ensuring clear, accurate communication throughout the program lifecycle
- Own the commercial and operational success of assigned programs, maintaining accountability for budgets, forecasts, customer commitments, contract execution, schedule performance and overall program profitability.
- Drive program governance by managing requirements, configuration and change control, risk mitigation, and compliance with quality and regulatory standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Program Management, or a related technical field.
- 3+ years of experience managing multiple technical programs in aerospace, defense, advanced manufacturing, or another highly regulated engineering environment.
- Proven ability to influence technical decisions and align diverse stakeholders around common objectives.
- Nice to haves but not required:
- Experience with additive manufacturing, advanced manufacturing, or new product development.
- Working knowledge of quality and regulatory standards such as AS9100, ISO 9001, ITAR/EAR, DFARS, or NIST 800-171
- Knowledge of materials, manufacturing, operations and additive manufacturing standards.
Compensation
- Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more!
- $104,000 - $156,000 USD
Benefits
- Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more!
- Now is a unique moment in time where it's early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum.
- is only one part of our total rewards package.
- To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Company info
- Relativity Space pioneered large-scale additive manufacturing with our Terran 1 rocket, the largest 3D-printed object to fly.
- Now a distinct business unit within Relativity, Horizon Manufacturing Technologies is advancing next-generation manufacturing for aerospace and beyond.
- The team operates at the frontier of manufacturing innovation, where creativity meets capability.
- This is an environment where cutting-edge R&D is put into production, industrializing advanced manufacturing capabilities to solve customer problems.
- You'll work alongside welders, robotics engineers, data scientists, and systems engineers at the intersection of hardware and software, creating an end-to-end additive manufacturing platform that serves a wide variety of applications.
- From exploring new materials to unlocking faster print speeds, to designing complex, organic geometries that can't be built any other way, it's high-impact work that sets the foundation for the future of advanced manufacturing.
- Lead complex programs from kickoff through delivery, partnering with engineering, operations, supply chain, and customers to execute against cost, schedule, and technical objectives.
- At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
- At Relativity Space, we're building rockets to serve today's needs and tomorrow's breakthroughs.
- Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level.
Equal opportunity
- If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at accommodations@relativityspace.com.
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