7h ago

Director, Space Infrastructure

Golden, CO or San Francisco

$180k-$250k / year

full-timeleadspace

🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

Own Loft Orbital's space infrastructure across a growing satellite fleet. You'll define strategy, lead execution, and grow teams to ensure reliability at scale while improving automation. This role drives incident management and cross-functional alignment for high-stakes operations.

🎯 What You'll Do

  • Lead and develop Flight Directors, SatCons, and Space Infrastructure teams
  • Define long-term strategy for scalable, automated fleet operations
  • Own infrastructure availability and reliability SLAs for customer missions
  • Drive incident management, anomaly triage, and post-incident reviews

📋 Requirements

  • 8+ years leading satellite operations or large-scale distributed systems
  • Strong technical grounding in satellite ops, network, software, or DevOps
  • Proven success scaling operations to support fleet growth
  • Experience owning incident response and operational process design

✨ Nice to Have

  • Experience in a high-growth or rapidly scaling space company
  • Exposure to regulatory and compliance environments (FCC, licensing)
  • Background across satellite operations, systems engineering, and DevOps

🎁 Benefits & Perks

  • 🚀 Ownership of critical space infrastructure
  • 🌍 High impact on satellite fleet at scale
  • Leadership in a fast-growing space company
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