Senior Program Manager II - Flatellite

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

Base pay range: $153,000–$229,500 USD annually, plus company stock as part of total compensation.

Company

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

What you will do

• Lead multiple high-volume satellite programs from blank-sheet concept through qualification, full-rate production, and flight.
• Own rate, yield, unit cost, technical roadmaps, and strategic program decisions.
• Make architectural and design-for-manufacturing trade-offs with Chief Engineers, including takt time, line-of-balance, rate readiness, and reliability.
• Identify and resolve tooling, supply-chain, yield, and production risks before they affect schedule or margin.
• Coordinate manufacturing, supply chain, integration, and test teams while removing roadblocks.
• Manage customer relationships with commercial constellation operators and support proposals with BD & Strategy.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in physics, mathematics, science, or another technical discipline.
• 8+ years of aerospace program management experience.
• Demonstrated ownership of a technical program, product, or team from end to end under real pressure.
• Experience moving hardware and software from prototype toward high-rate production, with quantified yield, throughput, and cost improvements.
• Understanding of takt time, line-of-balance, design-for-manufacturing, and learning-curve economics.
• Experience identifying and neutralizing tooling, supply-chain, or yield risks.
• U.S. citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

Nice to have

• Experience transitioning low-volume prototypes into full-rate production while maintaining mission reliability.
• Deep experience scaling satellite, aerospace, or analogous complex hardware production.
• Experience reducing unit cost at production rate without sacrificing reliability.
• Master’s degree in Engineering, Operations, or a related field.
• Fluency in systems engineering, trade studies, interface control, requirement integrity, Jira, Confluence, and ERP/MRP tools.
• Multiple program cycles or 8+ years in aerospace or defense.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employee role with stock compensation and an Employee Stock Purchase Program offering a 15% discount.
• Medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, disability, and life insurance benefits, plus a 401(k) with company match.
• Paid vacation, sick time, 11 paid holidays, and paid parental leave.
• Additional perks include EV charging, fitness benefits, snacks and beverages, and employee discounts.
• Production work may involve prolonged sitting, standing, walking, computer work, and occasional moderate noise, dust, and fumes.
• US-office employment is subject to ITAR eligibility requirements; lawful US permanent residents, refugees, asylees, and candidates eligible for required authorizations may also qualify under the stated regulations.