Technical Program Manager (Software)

Join Xona Space Systems as a Technical Program Manager (Software). In this role, you will own the execution of software programs across navigation service, mission operations, and flight software. You will work closely with the program lead and engineering teams to keep the software organization on track. You will also build tooling, automation, and reporting systems. The ideal candidate has 4-7 years of program or project management experience in complex software development, with meaningful exposure to aerospace or robotics.

• Ownership of the software development schedule across various teams, tracking progress against milestones, and managing critical paths.
• Coordination and communication across multiple software workstreams and their interfaces with hardware, ensuring releases are coordinated, tested, and deployed.
• Identification of manual operational overhead across teams and building lightweight tooling, bots, and integrations to eliminate it, connecting various platforms into a single source of operational truth.

• Clear communicator who can work credibly with engineers and summarize status cleanly for leadership
• 4–7 years of program or project management experience in complex software development, with meaningful exposure to aerospace, robotics, or another hardware-adjacent technical field
• Strong systems thinker who can track interdependencies across multiple software workstreams -- and their interfaces with hardware -- without losing the critical path
• Direct experience program-managing software teams through both active development and live/operational phases -- you understand that priorities, cadence, and risk look different once something is running in production (or in orbit)
• Comfortable operating in hardware environments -- you don't need to have owned a bus or payload schedule, but you've been close to spacecraft, robotics, or other complex hardware programs that avionics, RF, or integration/test
• Self-directed and comfortable operating with limited oversight
• Proficient enough as a programmer (Python, TypeScript/Node.js, or Go) to build and deploy lightweight internal tools, bots, and automations yourself
• Familiarity with GNSS, PNT systems, or mission operations concepts (telemetry, commanding, ground segment software, on-orbit anomaly response)
• Experience building bots, custom integrations across developer toolchains (GitHub, Linear/Wrike, Teams, Datadog, AWS/GCP), or internal developer portals
• Hands-on experience with satellite bus subsystems or RF/navigation payloads, or having worked through a full satellite program cycle from PDR/CDR through integration, test, and launch/operations
• Hands-on knowledge of workflow automation platforms (Temporal, n8n, Airflow, or similar)
• Prior experience as a software engineer or DevOps engineer before moving into technical program management
• PMP, Agile, or other PM certifications (nice to have, not a substitute for real program experience)