Role: Program Manager Associate
Employment Type: Full Time
Educational Qualification: Advanced degree in Engineering or Physical Sciences
Work Experience: 0-2 yrs
Role Description
Pixxel is on the search for a dynamic PM Associate adept in handling government projects related to space systems. This role is pivotal in bridging the gap between government bodies and our internal payload and Spacecraft Engineering teams, ensuring timely delivery of satellites and payloads. The successful candidate will be the focal point in ensuring seamless project execution, maintaining customer rapport, and steering internal and external teams to achieve program excellence.
Responsibilities & Duties
- Maintain project timelines, budget allocation, risk management, procurement strategies, and subcontractor engagements.
- Engage with external stakeholders to crystallize project needs and stipulations.
- Deliver periodic program updates to Pixxel and external stakeholders.
- Ensure all project milestones are met with uncompromised adherence to deliverables.
- Drive discussions and presentations during design and progress evaluations, both formally and informally.
- Formulate project proposals and delineate scopes of work aligning with government needs.
- Collaborate synergistically with technical teams, peers, and financial controllers to meet project mandates without budget overruns.
- Support administrative and coordination tasks related to scheduling, action item tracking, and documentation for program activities.
- Maintain the project schedule, monitor schedule progress and flag potential delays and risks
- Documentation: Maintain the program documentation repository, prepare and coordinate team inputs for all major program reviews
- Support conversations with customers, vendors, regulators, and other stakeholders for end-to-end delivery of the program.
Desirable Skills & Certifications
- Experience as a Systems Engineer or Program Manager on satellite/aerospace projects.
- Proficiency in dealing with commercial or governmental entities and familiarity with their project execution methodologies.
- Comprehensive experience, from conceptualization to launch, of satellite missions.
- Understanding of satellite mechanics, space-oriented sensors, and terrestrial systems for space support.
- Experience in managing aerospace, defense, or space-related projects.
- Established track record of on-time and within-budget project delivery.
- Familiarity with swift project development methodologies.
- Strong capability to interpret and act on project metrics, schedules, and financial frameworks.
- Stellar communication skills, both written and verbal, facilitating cross-functional and hierarchical dialogues.
- Proven expertise in team oversight, task delegation, and fiscal management.
- Acute attention to every detail, ensuring minimal oversight.
- Desired traits: Proactive, highly organized, and comfortable following up with multidisciplinary teams on open
- Ability to perform in a high-functioning, fast-paced work environment, supporting actionable decision-making
Candidate Acumen
Aspects of work environment. Example: a strong desire to work in an unstructured, high-growth, fast-paced start-up environment
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Unlimited leaves & flexible working hours
Role-based remote work and work-from-home benefit
Relocation assistance
Professional Mental Wellness services
Creche facility for primary caregivers (limited to India)
Employee Stock Options for all hires
About Pixxel
Pixxel is a space data company and spacecraft manufacturer redefining Earth observation with hyperspectral imaging. The company's first three commercial hyperspectral satellites—Fireflies—deliver imagery at 5-meter resolution and 135+ spectral bands, providing 50x richer detail than traditional Earth observation systems and unlocking insights across agriculture, climate, energy, environment, and more.
Once fully deployed, Pixxel's constellation of 18-24 satellites will capture imagery across up to 250 bands in VNIR and SWIR ranges, with a 40 km swath and daily global revisit capability. Pixxel's most unique strength is its full-stack approach, integrating every layer of the value chain from satellite hardware and manufacturing to AI-powered analytics.
Pixxel's satellite constellation is complemented by Aurora, its in-house Earth Observation Studio that simplifies satellite imagery analysis and democratises remote sensing for all. Designed to make hyperspectral data more accessible, Aurora by Pixxel combines high-frequency imagery with AI-powered tools to generate actionable insights, even for users without technical backgrounds. The third pillar of Pixxel's ecosystem is its in-house satellite manufacturing capability. Beyond building its own spacecraft, Pixxel also provides satellite systems and subsystems to other organisations. This dual capacity sets it apart in a sector where most companies focus on either payload design or data operations, but not both.
Pixxel's team is young but deeply mission-aligned, with a culture rooted in curiosity, speed, and long-term thinking. As the company grows its constellation and expands Aurora, the focus remains on making space-based insights practical, scalable, and genuinely helpful so that the health of the planet becomes measurable and action becomes possible.
Pixxel was the only Indian startup selected for the Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator in Los Angeles and has been recognised in TIME's Best Inventions of 2023, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, and Via Satellite's Top Innovators list.
For more information, see ourCareers page or follow Pixxel onLinkedIn andX/Twitter.
Culture
Pixxel is an organization where we enable our employees to work on world-changing problems that they are passionate about, and a place where they can be their best selves day in and day out while ensuring they have fun every day.
Central to our employee-first ethos is a commitment to ensuring that every team member feels valued and heard. We nurture a healthy and supportive work environment where we prioritise well-being and growth in all aspects of life
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