Program Manager (Aerospace & Defense)

Location: Hybrid role in Torrance, California, United States; candidates must be able to lawfully access information and technology subject to U.S. export controls and be eligible to work in the United States.

Salary: $100,940–$138,790 USD annually.

Company

Divergent designs, manufactures, and assembles advanced systems through an integrated engineering and manufacturing platform for automotive, aerospace, and defense customers.

What you will do

• Support business operations planning, forecasting, reporting, recurring business reviews, planning cycles, and ad hoc analyses for Aerospace & Defense customers and programs.
• Maintain and analyze awards, revenue forecasts, pipeline, bookings, and related operational data using business planning and forecasting tools.
• Gather and validate inputs and assumptions with Finance, Sales, Program Management, Operations, Engineering, People, and other stakeholders.
• Translate customer demand, revenue, program timing, and other business inputs into headcount, workforce capacity, and resource requirements.
• Monitor forecast inputs and outputs, identify data gaps and inconsistencies, and drive issues to resolution.
• Prepare reporting, analysis, and presentations; identify trends, risks, and opportunities while improving forecast accuracy, data integrity, and planning efficiency.

Requirements

• Ability to lawfully access information and technology subject to U.S. export controls.
• Experience in business operations, financial or business planning, forecasting, capacity planning, program operations, or a related discipline.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, comfort working with business data, and experience with revenue forecasts, awards, bookings, pipeline, workforce planning, or similar operational metrics.
• Strong Excel skills and ability to learn and use business planning, forecasting, reporting, or ERP tools.
• Experience working on the Jira platform, including user access, workflows, dashboards, reports, troubleshooting, and alignment with organizational processes and operational needs.
• Ability to understand relationships between demand, revenue, workload, staffing, and capacity.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, organizational, prioritization, and attention-to-detail skills, with the ability to work across teams and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to challenge assumptions, ask questions, and drive issues to resolution.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting Aerospace & Defense customers, programs, or government contracting environments.
• Familiarity with workforce or headcount planning and capacity models.
• Experience with business intelligence, forecasting, ERP, CRM, or financial planning tools.
• Experience translating business forecasts into operational or resource requirements.
• Understanding of program management, customer contracts, or long-cycle customer demand.
• Experience in a matrixed, cross-functional organization.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employment in a collaborative, dynamic, high-performing, mission-driven environment.
• Competitive salary with equity plan and discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities.
• Paid vacation, sick time, company holidays, year-end shutdown, and paid parental leave.
• HMO and Premium PPO health plans, company-sponsored life insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Learning and development reimbursement opportunities.
• Equal employment opportunity employer participating in E-Verify; no agencies, solicitations, or calls.