Lead Mission Manager

About the role

### **Description**

As a **Lead Mission Manager** at Impulse, you will oversee a portfolio of complex missions from contract award to orbital delivery. You will lead a high\-performing team, acting as the primary operational anchor for your group. You ensure technical rigor, consistent mission execution, and team scalability while serving as the final authority on mission\-level trades. This role will lead a small, focused team of Mission Managers executing a mix of commercial and civil space missions.### **Responsibilities**

* Lead, mentor, and scale a team of Mission Managers to ensure consistent mission execution * Provide operational oversight for a portfolio of complex mission campaigns, ensuring programmatic alignment during critical phases * Serve as the final authority on technical and programmatic trades that impact mission success * Establish and document departmental standards for mission processes, communications, and documentation * Partner with engineering leadership to resolve critical constraints and protect mission scope * Drive cross\-training initiatives to eliminate single points of failure across flight campaigns

### **Minimum Qualifications**

* Bachelor’s degree in a technical field * 5\+ years of industry experience, with 3\+ years in a technical leadership or program management role within an aerospace flight environment * Expertise in mission integration, launch campaigns, or spacecraft operations * Proven track record of managing diverse, cross\-functional engineering teams * Exceptional ability to communicate and resolve conflicts between technical and non\-technical stakeholders

### **Preferred Skills and Experience**

* Master’s degree in a technical field * Direct experience leading or managing NASA missions (e.g., flight projects, science instruments, or launch services) * Demonstrated breadth in mission environments, with experience across commercial and civil sectors * 8\+ years of demonstrated experience managing missions through the full lifecycle: from proposal to launch and on\-orbit operations * Proven ability to operate effectively in a fast\-paced startup environment * Demonstrated experience improving organizational processes to support increased mission cadence

**Additional Information:**

Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case\-by\-case basis and may vary based on job\-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full\-time hires, you may also be eligible for long\-term incentives, in the **form of stock options**, and access to **medical, vision \& dental coverage** as well as **access to a 401(k) retirement plan**.

Impulse Space’s spacecraft manufacturing business is subject to U.S. export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This position requires applicants to be either U.S. Persons (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent U.S. resident (green card holder), an individual granted asylum in the U.S., or an individual admitted in U.S. refugee status) or persons eligible to obtain an export license from the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, or other applicable U.S. government agencies. Learn more about the ITAR here.

Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.### **About Impulse Space**

Impulse Space, the in\-space transportation company founded by Tom Mueller, is opening access beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with its fleet of in\-space transportation vehicles. The high\-energy Helios vehicle unlocks orbits beyond LEO with its powerful Deneb engine, dropping off payloads in MEO, GEO, heliocentric, lunar, and other planetary orbits. The flight\-proven Mira vehicle uses a nontoxic, high\-impulse chemical propulsion system to offer orbital transport, constellation deployment, and precision reentry services to customers throughout LEO. Led by a team that delivered the most reliable rockets in history, Impulse provides economical and efficient in\-space transportation by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.