Project Manager, Human Spaceflight and Satellites (Aerospace)

Location: Paris, France; office-based role with travel up to 50%, primarily within Europe and occasionally to Long Beach, California

Compensation is based on experience, skills, and business needs; full-time employees receive equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops commercial space stations, space infrastructure, crewed systems, and satellite products for government, industrial, and private customers.

What you will do

• Lead proposals, offers, institutional tenders, and commercial opportunities for European customers.
• Manage schedules, deliverables, milestones, and internal coordination for European sales campaigns and early-stage human spaceflight and satellite programs.
• Act as the technical and programmatic interface between European customers and hirify.global headquarters in Long Beach.
• Translate customer requirements into actionable inputs for engineering and mission management teams.
• Support customer meetings, technical exchanges, negotiations, conferences, and agency events.
• Contribute to capture strategy, institutional relations, industrial partnerships, and the development of junior team members.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering, science, business, or a related discipline.
• 5–7 years of experience in program management, capture and bid management, or customer-facing project management in the space or aerospace industry.
• Direct experience with European institutional customers and procurement processes, including ESA, the EU, or national space agencies.
• Experience serving as the primary technical and management interface between a program and an external customer.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, organization, technical writing, spreadsheet, and presentation skills.
• Professional fluency in English and eligibility to work in France are required.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in engineering, science, business, or a related discipline.
• Experience with human spaceflight missions, crewed vehicle providers, and launch integration campaigns.
• Experience with Salesforce or a similar CRM and research or list-building tools.
• Professional proficiency in French or other European languages.
• Experience in a startup or small-office environment, with strong negotiation and cross-functional coordination skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a small, hands-on European team supporting customers across the space ecosystem.
• Close collaboration with engineering, mission management, legal, finance, and business development teams in the United States.
• Full-time employment with company equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, parental leave, disability and life insurance, and a 401(k) plan.
• Additional wellness, mental healthcare, food, and employee discount benefits.
• Availability for occasional evening or weekend meetings to support mission milestones and time-zone coordination.