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Customer Delivery Manager

Loft Orbital Solutions

Job Location:

San Francisco, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 140000 - 190000

Posted: 21 August 2026 (15 days ago)

Application Deadline: 18 November 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 Customer Delivery Manager 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:

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
International exposure to our team in France
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

$140000 - $190000 a year

State law requires us to tell you the base compensation range for this role which is $140000- $190000 per year. This is determined by your education experience knowledge skills and abilities. The salary range for this role is intentionally wide as we evaluate individuals based on their unique experience and abilities to fit our needs. Most importantly we are excited to meet you and see if you are a great fit for our team. What we cantquantify for you are the exciting challenges supportive team and amazing culture we enjoy.

*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:

Manager

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