Program Manager

Loft Federal is seeking a Program Manager to support customer-facing execution across federal space programs and customer contracts.

This role will help manage day-to-day program execution for government and national security customers. The Program Manager will work closely with Federal leadership senior program managers engineering mission teams contracts finance security subcontractors and customers to keep programs organized visible and moving.

This is a hands-on program execution role. The person in this seat will support customer meetings track commitments manage deliverables coordinate internal actionsmaintainprogram statusidentifyrisks and help ensure Loft Federal executes against cost schedule technical contractual and customer requirements.

The ideal candidate is early to mid-career highly organized credible with customers comfortable with technical programs and ready to grow into larger program ownership over time.

Final title and leveling will bedeterminedbased on the selected candidates experience anddemonstratedoperating levelingranges from Associate Program Manager to Program Manager with potential Senior Program Manager consideration for a candidate with stronger independent customer-contract ownership.

The Program Manager will partner directly with Federal leadership Program Managers Engineering Mission teams Growth Contracts Legal Finance Security Quality and external customers.

Why This Role Matters

Loft Federal is scaling its federal program portfolio across spacecraft hosted payloads mission software mission operations and national security space customers.

As the business grows program execution needs more structure rhythm and customer-facing discipline. Customer commitments need to be tracked. Deliverables need to be managed. Technical teams need clear priorities. Risks need to be surfaced early. Contracts finance engineering and mission teams need a shared operating picture.

This role will help Loft Federal execute customer contracts with more consistency and visibility. The person in this seat will help turn contract requirements customer priorities engineering work subcontractor inputs and internal decisions into organized program execution.

What You Will Own

• Support execution of customer contracts across cost schedule technical contractual and deliverable requirements.

• Serve as a day-to-day customer-facing program interface for assigned programs task orders studies demonstrations or contract workstreams.

• Prepare for and support customer meetings program reviews technical interchange meetings status calls and internal execution reviews.

• Track customer commitments meeting actions deliverables risks issues decisions and follow-up items through closure.

• Maintain program execution artifacts including action trackers deliverable trackers risk registers status reports meeting notes schedules and program review materials.

• Partner with senior program managers and Federal leadership to ensure customer priorities are clearly understood and translated into internal execution plans.

• Coordinate with Engineering Mission Product Security Contracts Finance and subcontractors to keep program work aligned and moving.

• Support development and maintenance of program schedules milestones dependencies deliverables and internal execution plans.

• Monitor program execution against contract requirements statements of work data deliverables funding limits period of performance and customer expectations.

• Support financial discipline by helping track program budgets burn rates labor plans material needs subcontractor inputs invoices and forecast inputs.

• Coordinate with Contracts and Legal on customer deliverables contract modifications customer correspondence funding status and compliance requirements.

• Support Engineering and Mission teams by tracking technical dependencies interface needs verification activities test readiness delivery readiness and customer review inputs.

• Identifyexecution risks early and escalate issues before they become customer-facing problems.

• Support proposal and follow-on growth activities by helping capture customer needs execution assumptions lessons learned risks deliverables and program inputs.

• Help improve Loft Federals program management processes templates reporting cadence and execution discipline as the business scales.

Required Qualifications

• U.S. citizenshiprequired.

• Ability to obtain andmaintaina U.S. security clearance.

• 3 years of experience in program management project management engineering project coordination technical operations government contracting aerospace defense space national security technology or a similar program-based environment.

• Experience supporting customer-facing programs technical projects government contracts or complex engineering efforts.

• Ability to organize and track actions deliverables schedules risks dependencies and decisions across multiple stakeholders.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to prepare customer-facing materials meeting notes status updates and program review inputs.

• Ability to work directly with customers technical teams contracts finance security and business leadership.

• Working knowledge of program execution concepts including scope schedule budget risks deliverables customer commitments and change control.

• Familiarity with federal contracts statements of work contract deliverables funding period of performance and customer reporting expectations.

• Ability to understand technical content well enough to coordinate across engineering and mission teams ask informed questions and communicate status clearly.

• Strong ownership follow-through attention to detail and judgment.

• Ability tooperatein a scaling business where systems processes and data are still maturing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting U.S. government DoD Intelligence Community NASA civil space or national security customers.

• Experience in spacecraft hosted payloads satellite systems mission software mission operations ground systems RF systems autonomy edge processing or complex hardware/software integration.

• Experience supporting customer program reviews technical interchange meetings contract deliverables schedule reviews or program status reporting.

• Experience with FFP T&M cost-plus OTA IDIQ/task order subcontract or similar government contracting structures.

• Familiarity with FAR/DFARS CUI export controls classified program environments security requirements and government contract compliance.

• Experience supporting proposals ROMs BOEs customer white papers RFI responses or follow-on contract activities.

• Experience with Jira Confluence Microsoft Project Smartsheet Excel PowerPoint Google Workspace ERP CRM or program management tools.

• Experience supporting program financial tracking labor planning burn rate reviews invoices accruals or forecast inputs.

• PMP CAPM Agile systems engineering project management or related certification.

• Active Secret orTop Secretclearance.

• 100% company-paid medical dental and vision insurance option for employees and dependents
• Flexible Spending (FSA) and Health Savings (HSA) Accounts offered with an employer contribution to the HSA
• 100% employer paid Life AD&D Short-Term and Long-Term Disability insurance
• Flexible Time Off policy for vacation and sick leave and 12 paid holidays
• 401(k) plan and equity options
• Daily catered lunches and snacks in office
• Fully paid parental leave; 14 weeks for birthing parent and 10 weeks for non-birthing parent
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• Off-sites and many social events and celebrations
• Relocation assistance when applicable

Loft Federal is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race color age religion sex gender identity or expression sexual orientation marital status national origin ancestry veteran status genetic information disability pregnancy or any other legally protected status.

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