Technical Program Manager

At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.

Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.

About The Team:

The Stennis Test team designs, builds, and operates Relativity’s propulsion and stage test stands. Team members are hands-on with large-scale, complex systems including fully integrated engines and stage assemblies, pushing hardware to the limits and directly contributing to flight readiness. The work is fast-paced and highly operational, ideal for those with backgrounds in aviation, automotive, manufacturing, offshore operations, industrial systems, construction, or adjacent industries. You’ll work in a close-knit, dynamic environment where collaboration between technicians, operators, and engineers is not only encouraged, but expected. As the company scales, the Stennis Test team becomes even more critical to unlocking our next phase of growth: proving out full-stage systems and paving the way for routine, reliable flights of Terran R.

About The Role:

Your mission is to ensure that the Stennis site is the best operational test complex in the world. You will develop and coordinate the execution of a site strategic roadmap encompassing infrastructure and operational needs to successfully support Terran R test operations. You will be responsible for strategic relationships with both internal and external partners. Where others add complexity, your primary role is to simplify internal requirements and operations. You will be expected to leverage your experience and soft skills to bring together test operations, site logistics, infrastructure, and vehicle engineering to drive successful site operations and support of the Terran R program. You will be expected to bridge the gap between technical engineering teams and communicating road maps and progress to our executive team. Working with key stakeholders, you will coordinate development initiatives to define objectives and key results that track progress across an array of technical problems and phenomena related to designing, building and operating a world class launch site.

• Develop, maintain, and track small to medium size project schedules.
• Provide clear timely updates on project status, risks, and goals to program and site leadership.
• Be the central point of communication between teams in the field and our engineering/business groups.
• Support tracking and mitigation of technical risks and dependencies.
• Work with program leadership to reduce risk, increase collaboration, and develop goals at the site level.

About You:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related technical field.
• 1+ years of experience in a program management role on a complex technical project
• Must be able to work independently and report to remote management
• Experience managing programs across matrix organizations, building sustainable processes, and coordinating design releases and key engineering trades
• Experience building schedules with one of the following: P6 Primavera, MS Project, Smartsheet, etc.

Nice to haves but not required:

• Experience working with leadership (executive team, customer leadership, supplier leadership, etc.)
• Prior work on a launch vehicle or spacecraft
• Experience in a startup or agile environment
• MBA, Master’s in engineering, science, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience preferred

Successful candidates must clear a background check administered by the US government to obtain clearance for on-site work at our government partner location in Stennis, Mississippi.

At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.

Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.

Hiring Range:$110,000—$140,000 USD

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.