Program Lead SETA

Program Lead SETA

Blue Sky Innovators is seeking a Program Lead SETA who will provide program management support to our government client. This program develops solar propulsion technology and demonstrates the ability of solar sails to enable presence in cislunar space while carrying useful payloads.

The ideal candidate will drive forward to keep the program running by actively tracking and managing the budget, schedule, and technical performance of the program. The candidate should bring strong organizational capabilities to track program progress against goals while leading coordination and collaboration with transition partners.

The candidate will coordinate and participate in activities in project management, technical and programmatic risk analysis, and program-funded test coordination.  The candidate will also be responsible for coordinating meetings, assessing performer technical progress, projecting performer outcomes, and ensuring that project management best practices are followed by performers, independent verification and validation (IV&V) entities funded by DARPA, and within DARPA itself.

The ideal candidate should possess technical research, development, and engineering experience across a breadth of applied technical projects. Exemplary candidates will also have demonstrated an ability to learn new subjects and gain rapid insights into current and next-generation research topics, preferably with hands-on leadership of research programs at the performer level.