About this job

Open Cosmos are revolutionising space technology and opening up the cosmos to everyone. Our simple, affordable satellite missions give organisations the chance to use space technology as a tool to get your ideas into orbit. Our mission is to make the leaps in space that become the leaps on Earth.

Compiled of 50+ people from over 15 nationalities, we have a culturally diverse workforce full of Engineers, Software Developers, Business developers and Mission Managers! Beyond the office, we have bakers, long distance runners, climbers, rowers, golfers and mixed martial artists!

By making space data more accessible and affordable, we want to be the platform that allows applicable solutions to be the prevention, not the cure. When tragedy strikes, Earth Observation satellites can be used to detect where resources would be most effective and map out the scale of damage to help decision makers rebuild.

Responsibilities

You will be in charge of delivering Open Cosmos space mission projects in time and within the project budget. This means capturing customer drivers and requirements and planning the project execution, but also defining timelines, allocating resources, identifying risks and using Open Cosmos’ technologies and services to satisfy customer expectations. You will interface with customers and the mission stakeholders, Open Cosmos’ technical and commercial teams, partners and suppliers. You will contribute to the design of the mission alongside with the systems engineering and mission operations teams.

You will oversee the delivery of the end-to-end space mission service, being involved in the selection and execution of building blocks, from launch service providers to ground segment infrastructure providers and all the regulatory landscape that frames the delivery of our services.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Understand the business needs of our customers to deliver a solution that satisfy both the technical and the business aspects.
• Design space mission project management and implementation plans
• Understand design drivers, constraints and risks.
• Work directly with several engineering departments, on parallel projects.
• Interact with customers as the main point of contact for a given project, as well as key suppliers.
• Monitor progress, ensure deliveries meet time, cost and quality expectations in an efficient manner, not only internally, but also with partners and suppliers.
• Identify project risks, mitigate them, communicate to stakeholders and report to the management team, proactively.
• Foresee events and issues and find efficient solutions that are aligned with the company values and vision.
• Enable other teams’ members to do their work. Be a centre of coordination to reduce meeting overheads and be the enabler of cross-department initiatives.

Profile

Skills, attitude and experience

• Experience in having managed end-to-end space mission projects
• Experience in management of technical projects in the space industry, involving software and hardware development in a multidisciplinary environment with cross-functional interactions
• Experience in space mission systems engineering
• University degree in a technically relevant domain
• Strong capability to do multitasking and coordinate people
• Feel comfortable with uncertainty and a fast changing environment
• Excellent communication skills
• Honesty, openness and self-awareness
• Lean / bootstrap mentality
• Take initiative, have a hands-on attitude and work in a self-driven manner

Nice to have

• Experience in Earth Observation projects
• Experience in projects related to satellite constellations
• Systems engineering experience
• Master several project management frameworks
• Ability to deliver complex projects using Agile methodologies
• Bid/Proposal management experience