Enter a job title or keyword

Technical Program Manager, Customer Delivery


Job Location:

Toulouse - France

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 16 September 2026 (2 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 14 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Wanna join the adventure

Loft Orbitals mission is to make space simple. We deploy customer missions on our satellite infrastructure so our customers can focus on their applications instead of the spacecraft underneath them. The Customer Delivery team turns signed contracts into working missions on orbit and supports our customers from start to finish.

As a Technical Program Manager Customer Delivery you maintain the engine that drives the Customer Delivery team forward. You connect Lofts product development efforts to our customer value stream ensuring the team has the right capabilities tools and plans to execute customer missions. You will work alongside our Customer Delivery Engineers (CDEs) who design and execute each customer mission by building the development plans and capability portfolio they draw on to deliver value to our customers. You will own Mission Development Plans that coordinate work across engineering product and operations teams; manage the Customer Offering Portfolio that defines what Loft can deliver; and drive quality visibility and consistency in how new capabilities are deployed to our customer offering. This role is well suited to someone who has taken products from development through deployment at a product-driven technology company and wants to apply that discipline iteratively across an active product line of missions flying in orbit.

About this role:
  • Own the Mission Development Plan for assigned missions: identify all work required to deploy and execute the mission break it down into committed work packages with contributing teams and drive it to completion against launch-anchored deadlines
  • Manage the Customer Offering Portfolio: maintain the catalog of capabilities Loft can draw on to execute customer missions identify deltas between the portfolio and upcoming mission needs and drive new capability development with product and engineering teams
  • Partner with Customer Delivery Engineers to deliver customer value: CDEs execute the mission with the customer and you ensure the capabilities plans and tooling they need are in place when they need them
  • Connect Customer Delivery to Lofts product organization by representing operational and customer constraints in product planning and by managing the deployment of new features and capabilities into operational use
  • Drive cross-functional coordination and status clarity: run internal reviews with CDEs report on development progress risks and blockers and keep leadership and customers aligned on where things stand
  • Engage directly with customers up to the executive level on mission development scope schedule and capability tradeoffs
  • Continuously improve Customer Delivery processes templates and workflows to increase execution efficiency without sacrificing quality
Must Haves:
  • 8 years of professional experience in technical program product or engineering roles
  • 3 years as an Engineering Program Manager (EPM) or Product-focused Technical Program Manager (TPM) at a product-driven technology company leading cross-functional programs from definition through ship
  • Experience deploying products into production or operational environments including release readiness cross-team dependency management and post-deployment quality
  • Experience in the satellite or aerospace industry with working knowledge of spacecraft systems mission operations or payload development
  • Experience working directly with external customers including executive-level stakeholders
  • Exceptional and proven technical aptitude: able to go deep with engineers on architecture and tradeoffs and translate that fluently for customers and executives
  • Excellent communication skills at all levels from engineering deep dives to executive summaries with the organization and prioritization skills to run multiple parallel workstreams in a fast-paced environment
Nice to Haves:
  • Direct experience with satellite on-orbit operations commissioning or ground segment software
  • Technical leadership experience (leading engineers or technical teams formally or informally)
  • Experience building or managing a product/capability portfolio roadmap or plan of record
  • Experience with international customers and distributed teams
Some of Our Awesome Benefits:
  • Equity we want you to have an active role in our success
  • Up to 35 days of Paid Time Off (vacations & RTT ) and flexible working hours we want you to be at your best
  • Health and life insurance we care about your health
  • Lunch Vouchers because lets be honest we love food! (we even have a slack channel about it #loft-gourmand)
  • Cross-office travel opportunities between San Francisco Colorado and Toulouse to learn from our differences
  • Company and team off-sites and many other events to work & celebrate together
  • Relocation assistance to Toulouse when applicable
*Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet an average of 60% of the criteria women and other underrepresented people tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Loft we value respectful debate and people who arent afraid to challenge assumptions. We strongly encourage you to apply even if you dont check all the boxes.

Who We Are

Loft: Space Made Simple.

Founded in 2017 Loft provides governments companies and research institutions with a fast reliable and simple way to deploy missions in orbit.

We integrate launch and operate spacecraft offering end-to-end missions as a service across Earth observation IoT connectivity on-orbit AI national security missions and more. Leveraging our existing space infrastructure and an extensive inventory of satellite buses Loft is reducing years-long integration and launch timelines to months. With more than 30 missions flown Lofts flight heritage and proven technologies enable customers to focus on their mission objectives.

With a growing fleet on track to reach 30 satellites by 2027 we are scaling up quickly across our offices in San Francisco CA Golden CO and Toulouse France to meet accelerating demand for space infrastructure.

As an international company your resume will be reviewed by people across our offices so please attach a copy in English.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

Required Experience:

IC


About Company

Company Logo

Loft Orbital builds software and hardware products to fly and operate any payload on a standard satellite bus. See how we're making space simple.

View Profile View Profile