Back to jobs

Senior Program Coordinator

Mojave, California, United States

Stratolaunch is a technology accelerator that engineers operationally realistic testing at Mach 5+. Our air-launched, Talon testbeds are reusable, cost-effective platforms that enable routine access to the hypersonic environment. We deliver flight data critical to validating system performance and achieving rapid technology deployment. Together with our customers, we drive innovations that are imperative to advancing national security.

To support these advanced program efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a Senior Program Coordinator with 5–10 years of progressive experience coordinating complex technical programs in aerospace, defense, or other high‑consequence environments. This role serves as a senior integrator across the program office to drive clear communication and high‑quality customer deliverables.

The ideal candidate excels in structured coordination, multi-stakeholder communication, and ensuring program activities remain synchronized with requirements, schedules, and contract obligations. They are comfortable navigating dynamic environments, managing large deliverable matrices, and supporting fast-paced technical teams. To be successful, a candidate will possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as a willingness to learn and growth within the scope of authority to enhance customer satisfaction for customers and executive leadership.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Cross-Functional Coordination & Integration

  • Coordinate execution activities across engineering, operations, procurement, finance, and test organizations to ensure alignment with program plans
  • Drive effective communication and information flow across diverse functional teams
  • Translate program goals into actionable trackers, dashboards, and structured coordination mechanisms
  • Support the integration of multi-disciplinary inputs into program schedules, deliverables, and customer-facing materials
  • Coordinate customer technical interchange meetings and onsite visits from government partners

Program Execution & Deliverable Management

  • Maintain accurate program documentation, trackers, and coordinated status updates
  • Support configuration compliance, documentation completeness, and timely preparation of review materials and contract deliverables
  • Ensure program activities remain aligned with contract scope, customer expectations, and quality standards
  • Maintain awareness of program financial health and budget constraints; ensure alignment contract scope and customer desires when coordinating program activities

Customer Communication & Stakeholder Support

  • Serve as the primary working-level communication node for customer inquiries, status updates, and deliverable tracking
  • Lead routine customer-facing coordination interactions and support cross-functional briefings
  • Prepare consolidated weekly/monthly status reports and support formal program reviews
  • Maintain high-trust, professional communication with customer and government partners
  • Prepare routine consolidated status reports for program and executive leadership

Risk, Issue & Action Management

  • Identify emerging risks, deliverable delays, or schedule conflicts and elevate them promptly to program leadership
  • Support development and coordination of mitigation plans
  • Track action items, drive closure, and ensure structured follow-through across teams
  • Flag resource, documentation, or dependency gaps that could affect execution predictability

Leadership, Mentorship & Team Support

  • Provide day-to-day guidance to junior coordinators; review work quality and coach team members on program workflows
  • Influence cross-functional alignment to meet aggressive deadlines and customer commitments
  • Contribute to improving coordination processes, reporting structures, and execution standards within the program team

Travel

  • Domestic travel as required to support program and business objectives. (Typically <20%)

 

Required Qualifications

  • 5–10 years of direct program coordination experience in aerospace, defense, or technical program environments
  • Strong understanding of defense acquisition basics, contract deliverable processes, and technical program lifecycles
  • Demonstrated experience managing complex action-item matrices, multi-source reporting, or customer-facing deliverables
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to coordinate across diverse technical teams
  • Strong organizational skillset with high attention to detail and ability to self-direct daily priorities
  • Strong ability to survey the landscape, prioritize what is both urgent and important to the program, and communicate these priorities to the team and leadership
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience interfacing with DoD customers, defense contractors, or regulated technical programs
  • Familiarity with CDRLs/SDRLs, IMS alignment, or earned value concepts
  • Experience with project management tools (MS Project, Jira, or equivalent)
  • Background supporting aircraft operations, flight test, or integration-related programs

 

Education & Experience

  • Program Coordinator $93,000 - $142,000 (base salary and leveling established on a case-by-case basis, considering location, education, skills, and experience)
  • Associate or bachelor’s degree (B.S./B.A.) in Engineering, Business Administration, or a related discipline from an accredited institution
  • Equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered

 

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

  • This position is located in Mojave, CA
  • Travel estimated at <10%
  • 9/80 schedule

Base salary and leveling are established on a case-by-case basis. We consider several factors to ensure a competitive offer, including your location, educational background, and a comprehensive assessment of the skills and experience demonstrated during your interviews.

Benefits and our location(s): 

  • Healthcare (medical, dental, vision, prescription drugs)
  • Paid Maternity and Parental Leave
  • 50% company match per contributed dollar into 401(k) savings plan, up to $11,500
  • Tuition reimbursement

This position may involve the operation of company vehicles as part of assigned duties.

Mojave Air & Spaceport is located just outside of Lancaster/Palmdale and is only 95 miles north of Los Angeles.  The area offers both affordability and central access to a variety of California's best attractions and landmarks.  

Not much for the outdoors and prefer the city life? You’re within a half day’s drive or less of Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, and San Francisco where you can find a variety of live entertainment, museums, tours, and historical sight-seeing. Theme parks are in abundance, with Six Flags Magic Mountain, Disneyland, and Knotts Berry Farm ready to meet the needs of rollercoaster thrill seekers. 

Food and drink fanatics are in a haven of delectable choices. Wine aficionados will also find easy access to some of the state’s best vino in Paso Robles, Santa Ynez, and even more locally in Tehachapi and Agua Dulce. Beer fanatics will find some of the best West Coast IPAs at Bravery and Lucky Luke’s in Lancaster. Any food option you crave is covered, and we always recommend the authentic and fresh Mexican food that you won’t find anywhere else in the United States.

 

Stratolaunch is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity at our company. We encourage people from all walks of life to apply, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. Our management team does not tolerate discrimination or harassment at any point during our employees’ and applicants’ time with us, especially with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities, and general treatment during employment.  For purposes of transparency, U.S. Citizenship may be required for some positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

 

Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law :

https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf

Create a Job Alert

Interested in building your career at Stratolaunch? Get future opportunities sent straight to your email.

Apply for this job

*

indicates a required field

Resume/CV*

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf

Cover Letter

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf

Full address including street, city, state, & zip code

Select...
Certain U.S. government contracts supported by our company prohibit employment of individuals who hold citizenship (including dual citizenship) in specific countries designated by the U.S. Department of State. Please indicate whether you currently hold citizenship (including dual citizenship) in any of the following countries: *

If yes, please list all additional countries of citizenship. If no, please enter “N/A.”

Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...

* Please note that our Relationships at Work policy prohibits the creation of a direct or indirect reporting relationship between an employee and a family member or someone with whom they have a personal relationship with.

Select...

I understand that if offered employment I may be required to submit to a drug and/or alcohol screen. I further understand that I must successfully pass such a screen as a condition of beginning my employment.   If test results are not received until after I start employment, a positive test will result in my termination. 

Voluntary Self-Identification

For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.

As set forth in Stratolaunch’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

Select...
Select...
Race & Ethnicity Definitions

If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categories is as follows:

A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.

A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.

An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.

Select...

Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability

Form CC-305
Page 1 of 1
OMB Control Number 1250-0005
Expires 07/31/2029

Why are you being asked to complete this form?

We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this question at least every five years.

Completing this form is voluntary, and we hope that you will choose to do so. Your answer is confidential. No one who makes hiring decisions will see it. Your decision to complete the form and your answer will not harm you in any way. If you want to learn more about the law or this form, visit the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) website at www.dol.gov/ofccp.

How do you know if you have a disability?

A disability is a condition that substantially limits one or more of your “major life activities.” If you have or have ever had such a condition, you are a person with a disability. Disabilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Alcohol or other substance use disorder (not currently using drugs illegally)
  • Autoimmune disorder, for example, lupus, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS
  • Blind or low vision
  • Cancer (past or present)
  • Cardiovascular or heart disease
  • Celiac disease
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Deaf or serious difficulty hearing
  • Diabetes
  • Disfigurement, for example, disfigurement caused by burns, wounds, accidents, or congenital disorders
  • Epilepsy or other seizure disorder
  • Gastrointestinal disorders, for example, Crohn's Disease, irritable bowel syndrome
  • Intellectual or developmental disability
  • Mental health conditions, for example, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD
  • Missing limbs or partially missing limbs
  • Mobility impairment, benefiting from the use of a wheelchair, scooter, walker, leg brace(s) and/or other supports
  • Nervous system condition, for example, migraine headaches, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS)
  • Neurodivergence, for example, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia, other learning disabilities
  • Partial or complete paralysis (any cause)
  • Pulmonary or respiratory conditions, for example, tuberculosis, asthma, emphysema
  • Short stature (dwarfism)
  • Traumatic brain injury
Select...

PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENT: According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless such collection displays a valid OMB control number. This survey should take about 5 minutes to complete.