Senior Program Manager II - Space Sensing & Domain Awareness (TS/SCI)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States; based at hirify.global's global headquarters and intended for candidates seeking to work in U.S. offices.

Salary: $153,000–$229,500 USD base pay annually in California.

Company

hirify.global is an end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, precision payloads, and critical space subsystems for commercial, civil, and national-security missions.

What you will do

• Lead EO/IR sensing payload and optical-system programs from blank-sheet concepts through qualification, scalable production, and flight.
• Own the technical roadmap and make strategic make-or-buy decisions while running multiple active programs.
• Partner with Chief Engineers on architecture and trade-offs involving pointing stability, jitter, sensitivity, and revisit.
• Manage high-stakes suppliers and subcontracts, protecting schedule, margin, and mission execution.
• Coordinate optics, electronics, software, and data-chain teams, removing technical and operational roadblocks.
• Represent programs with U.S. Government tracking, warning, and surveillance customers and support proposals with Business Development and Strategy.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in physics, mathematics, science, or another technical discipline.
• 8+ years of aerospace program management experience.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of a technical program, product, or team, delivering under pressure.
• Experience moving hardware and software from prototype toward scalable, flight-ready production.
• Understanding of EO/IR sensing, optical payloads, or focal plane arrays.
• Experience identifying and mitigating technical, schedule, and supply-chain risks before they affect the mission.
• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• For U.S. office roles, eligibility under ITAR requirements is required: U.S. citizenship, lawful U.S. permanent residence, qualifying refugee/asylee status, or the ability to obtain required authorizations.

Nice to have

• Experience transitioning low-volume prototypes into reliable scalable production.
• Experience with National Security Space or large sensing and tracking constellations.
• Success negotiating, capturing, and executing large U.S. Government contracts.
• Master’s degree in Engineering, Optics, or a related field.
• Fluency in systems engineering, trade studies, interface control, requirement integrity, Jira, Confluence, and ERP.
• Multiple program cycles or 8+ years in aerospace/defense.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, collaborative environment focused on hard deadlines, innovation, teamwork, and delivering under pressure.
• Employee stock and an Employee Stock Purchase Program with a 15% company-stock discount.
• Medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, dependent-care, disability, and life-insurance options, plus a 401(k) with company match.
• Paid vacation, sick time, 11 paid holidays, and paid parental leave.
• Production-area work may involve prolonged sitting, standing, walking, and computer work, with occasional moderate noise, dust, and fumes.