Head of Mission Management

Vast(1 month ago)

Long Beach, CA, California, United StatesOnsiteFull TimeDirector$250,000 - $350,000Mission Management

About this role

The Head of Mission Management will lead Vast’s mission management organization and shape the company’s technical direction, customer experience, and programmatic approach as it develops human-rated commercial space stations. This executive role owns program-level engagement with major customers including NASA and is accountable for ensuring missions meet human-certification and regulatory requirements. The position reports to the COO and partners across engineering, production, supply chain, and operations to enable safe, crewed missions.

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Required Skills

Mission Management
Contract Execution
Integration
Human Certification
Customer Interface
Program Execution
Proposal Development
Flight Operations
Launch Operations
Training

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Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Aerospace Engineering
U.S. Person (Export Control Eligible)

About Vast

vastdata.com

VAST Data delivers an AI Operating System that unifies storage, database, and compute to power agentic AI and other data‑intensive workloads. Its platform provides a scale‑out, high‑performance data infrastructure designed for large models, analytics and mixed workloads, combining file, object and database services with enterprise features for performance and efficiency. VAST targets organizations running AI/ML, HPC and analytics, offering simplified management, a global namespace and optimized hardware utilization to reduce cost and operational complexity.