Sr. Project Manager (8-12 yrs) The team at Advanced Space is leading humanity back to the Moon and pioneering innovative solutions in the space industry. Based in Westminster, Colorado, this team is looking to add a highly motivated and passionate Sr. Project Manager with 8-12 years of experience. You would be responsible for facilitating coordination between engineering, operations, business development, and leadership teams on complex project challenges and solutions. This role involves leading essential components of project execution, including schedule management, risk oversight, and stakeholder communication, ensuring that critical programmatic tasks are executed reliably. Advanced Space is a rapidly growing, privately held business that operates with core values that reinforce we are customer-obsessed and mission-focused, when we see it, we solve it, we are one team, motivated by our vision, and we bring technical excellence and inexhaustible curiosity. This role will be based in Westminster, Colorado and an ideal candidate for this role will love not just the responsibilities, but will also have a passion for the exploration, development, and settlement of space. We invite you to join our dynamic team and contribute to the success of the team at Advanced Space.  This position is open to U.S. citizens only (U.S. citizens, or lawful permanent residents), as required by applicable laws and regulations. We do not provide visa sponsorship or support work authorization for this role. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future sponsorship. Responsibilities: * Shapes programmatic and technical approach for complex projects, balancing performance, cost, schedule, and risk. * Establishes strong, collaborative relationship with customers and suppliers. * Contributes to risk management frameworks for complex, multi-phase progjects with diverse technical and programmatic risk profiles. * Shapes integration and test strategies for complex projects, balancing test coverage, schedule, cost, and risk acceptance. * Develops and defends basis-of-estimate (BOE) documentation for customer and internal review. * Contributes to configuration management frameworks for multi-phase, multi-partner projects with complex interface and deliverable structures.  * Authors white papers, technical memos, and position papers that influence customer or partner decisions. * Ensures  lessons learned are captured and inform future project planning. * Calibrates project metrics against historical baselines and industry benchmarks. * Manages software intellectual property, licensing, and deliverable rights in contracts and agreements. *   Requirements: * B.S. in Project Management or related technical degree (e.g., Aerospace Engineering) or related Master's Degree Preferred. * 8-12 yrs of relevant experience. * Demonstrates technical expertise and understanding of program management principles, concepts, and best practices; PMP certification is desired. * Direct experience with aerospace space systems development, including intergration and test, with emphasis on space and ground segments preferred. * Proficient knowledge and experience in creating Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) for all project phases of the business cycle from proposals to project execution using tools such as Jira and MS Project.Understanding of basic contracting principles (contract types, contract strategy, contract clauses, IP considerations, etc.) * Understanding of the Defense Acquisition Framework, DoD/ Federal requirements process, and FAR based contracting is desired. * Demonstrated ability to work successfully with demanding customers, difficult schedules, and technically challenging projects. * Must be able to develop solutions to problems that require coordination of multiple diverse inputs from stakeholders to meet project requirements. * Ability to act autonomously and navigate the big picture as well as technical, budget, and schedule issues at the detail level. * Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are required to enable an effective interface with other departments, all levels of management, professional and support staff, customers, potential customers, and government representatives. * Excellent presentation development and delivery skills. * Thorough understanding of change control processes to control, monitor and resolve internal and external changes to projects. * Customer focused, relentlessly seeking the best most innovation solutions for our customers with an emphasis on meeting defined scope and objectives. Eligibility Requirements: * This is an IMMEDIATE hiring need.   * Ability to work in the Westminster, CO office 5 days/week during core business hours. * Applicants must be a US Citizen * Top Secret Security Clearance required Compensation and benefits: * Base salary range - $140,000 - $178,000 based on role and employee experience. * Signing bonus. * Quarterly Performance bonuses. * Company provided health insurance and 401K (401k is based upon eligibility) * Flexible time off policy * Relocation Assistance. About the company: Advanced Space exists to enable the sustainable exploration, development, and settlement of space through software and services that leverage unique subject matter expertise. The company is actively supporting mission and cutting-edge capabilities spanning commercial, civil, and national security customers. Our core business is focused on three areas: (1) mission enabling services, (2) technology solutions and (3) mission solutions. Through its mission enabling services, Advanced Space provides mission and flight optimization, mission design, mission systems engineering. With its technology solutions Advanced Space provides its customers with trusted AI/ML/autonomy expertise, flight-demonstrated applications, and analysis at scale. Advanced Space offers Mission Solutions with unique turn-key missions, data and capabilities purchases and demonstrated cislunar and Martian success. Advanced Space is mission focused as the owner and operator of CAPSTONE™ for NASA and Prime contractor for Oracle for AFRL. These competencies are leveraged by a dynamic, flexible, and agile team with cross domain knowledge. We have a small but growing team that works collaboratively across projects. We provide flexibility, and an opportunity for passionate employees to contribute directly to meaningful projects. Trusted to take on the challenge, the team at Advanced Space is Delivering Innovation to Orbit™ to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Advanced Space, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Advanced Space, LLC recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.