Senior Program Manager, Space Systems Acquisition

SES

📍 McLean, Virginia, United States

Full-time Operations Specialties Managers Posted June 07, 2026

Job Description


Senior Program Manager, Space Systems Acquisition

ROLE DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

As the Senior Program Manager, Space Systems Acquisition, your role provides critical leadership and technical support by evaluating new technology, creating requirements for new satellites, developing the designs of SES’s spacecraft and communications architectures, and leading the satellite manufacturers through our procurement process for these new systems.

 

This role performs extensive spacecraft system and payload architecture analysis to enable SES’s existing and new service types and transforms the analysis results into designs of new satellite systems. The position requires a thorough understanding of space syst...