Programs and projects
Space Jobs for Program Managers
, SpaceJobs.Now lists 872 open roles for program and project managers on 99 space industry employers, including Muon Space, Anduril and Umbra; typical pay across them is $130k to $255k a year (median $161k), topped by $948k a year advertised at Voyager Technologies.
Program Manager (opens the job details)
Katalyst Space Technologies · Programs & Business · Broomfield, Colorado, United States· 8mo agoDetails
$120,000–$160,000/yr
Measured from 503 distinct posted rates, across 63 employers, each as a year's pay (an hourly rate × 2,080 hours). 287 of the 872 listings open here post no pay at all.
Space companies hire program and project managers to deliver missions and vehicles on schedule and on budget, often under government contracts. Each listing here is re-verified on the employer's own job board once an hour.
Live roles for program and project managers
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Program and project managers
1 openLead a mission, a vehicle program or a project from contract to delivery.
Program Manager (opens the job details)
Katalyst Space Technologies · Programs & Business · Broomfield, Colorado, United States· 8mo agoDetails
$120,000–$160,000/yr
Before you apply
Space hardware is built, tested and flown in person, so many roles name a factory, a test site, a launch site or a control room, and each listing states its location. US roles that touch export-controlled technology (ITAR or EAR) can ask that you be a U.S. person, and some ask for a security clearance. A real employer never charges you to apply, never interviews you only by chat app and never asks you to buy equipment.
Pay by specialty
Every specialty gets its typical band from its own open roles, computed by the same method as the rest of the site (the 25th percentile of what roles pay (the middle of each posted range, as a year's pay: an hourly rate counts at 2,080 hours, 40 a week for 52 weeks) to the 90th-percentile posted top). A specialty is listed once three or more distinct rates have been posted.
| Specialty | Open roles | Typical pay | Highest rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Program control, scheduling and EVMS | 123 | $104k–$206k/yr | $948k/yr |
| Program and project managers | 715 | $141k–$266k/yr | $381k/yr |
| Program managers | 34 | Too few rates | Not stated |
What the roles ask for
Drawn from the requirement lines of 318 out of 872 open roles for program and project managers, the same lines each role's pop-up quotes from its posting. Each role is counted once, at the lowest degree it will accept.
- Name years of experience245
- Name a security clearance102
- Name u.S. person status (ITAR or EAR)28
- Set a residency or work-authorization condition19
- Ask for a certification9
- Ask for a professional license7
- Name a PMP certification4
- Require programming (Python, C++, MATLAB and similar)4
Where a posting states years of experience, the median ask is 7 years.
Who hires program and project managers in the space industry
Sorted by the expected value of an application (acceptance odds times posted pay). A referral agreement, if an employer has one, can raise it in this order but never changes the salary it offers.
Program or Project Manager salary by employer
What each employer's own postings pay program and project managers, by level and by site, with every role and its posted pay.
- Lockheed Martin Program or Project Manager salarymedian $150k/yr, 161 open roles
- Blue Origin Program or Project Manager salarymedian $161k/yr, 78 open roles
- Amazon Leo Program or Project Manager salarymedian $175k/yr, 75 open roles
- SpaceX Program or Project Manager salarymedian $110k/yr, 50 open roles
- Northrop Grumman Program or Project Manager salarymedian $170k/yr, 41 open roles
- Voyager Technologies Program or Project Manager salarymedian $161k/yr, 27 open roles
- Viasat Program or Project Manager salarymedian $183k/yr, 23 open roles
- BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Program or Project Manager salarymedian $159k/yr, 16 open roles
- Sierra Space Program or Project Manager salarymedian $170k/yr, 11 open roles
How each employer checks you
For every employer currently hiring program and project managers: its process as its own hiring guide describes it, each line with its source. The complete steps sit on that employer's page. Sorted by the expected value of an application (acceptance odds times posted pay). A referral agreement, if an employer has one, can raise it in this order but never changes the salary it offers.
- Assessment
- Amazon's interview loop. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- No general test published. How to apply
- Interview
- None published
- Assessment
- Booz Allen's technical assessment and interviews. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- Airbus interviews and role tests. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- Thales interviews. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- ESA's pre-screening and panel interview. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Credentials
- You complete a basic medical screening for the ESA Medical Officer and a basic background screening run by an external party; in a second stage ESA contacts your referees and verifies your diploma. Source
- Assessment
- Lockheed Martin's interviews. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- The recruiter screening and team interviews. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- No general test published. How to apply
- Interview
- None published
- Assessment
- The qualification review and interview. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Credentials
- Add the documents the announcement asks for, such as academic transcripts or military documents like your DD-214. Source
Where these roles are posted
The US states with the most open roles for program and project managers, and the roles posted for a single country. A place name leads to its own page, and a country's count lists the matching roles.
Students and recent graduates: 14 open space internships for program and project managers.
In the US, by state
- Colorado183
- California177
- Washington99
- Texas90
- Florida72
- Alabama54
- Virginia34
- Pennsylvania27
- Arizona17
Space industry jobs by US state
In the US, by metro area
What our research measures about programs & business work
Read from the open postings on 2026-10-30 by our space industry research, rebuilt every day. Every figure opens the row of the report it comes from.
- Who is hiring2,351 open roles (14.8% of the space roles we read) at 134 employers, 948 of them posted in the last 30 days.
- Where the jobs are4.1% of these roles are remote; the rest are on-site or hybrid.
- Who can apply59.4% of the postings are open only to US persons or US citizens, and 31.7% name a security clearance.
- Skills and toolsThe skills its postings name most: Excel (21%), SAP or another ERP (15%) and Jira (8%).
- Degrees and experience4.8% of the postings take a high school diploma or an associate's degree, 25.0% name a master's or PhD, and they ask for a median of 5 years of experience at the least.
- Pay transparency58.8% of the postings state their pay, at a median $148,000 a year.
- Internships and entry level95 open roles are for someone starting out (4.0% of its open roles).
- Shifts, weekends and travel15.0% of the postings ask for weekend work, 17.1% for overtime or extended hours, and 0.4% name an evening, night or rotating shift.
- What applications askThe application forms for this work ask your citizenship or U.S. person status (77.6% of them), about a security clearance (47.7% of them), your GPA (25.3% of them), SAT, ACT or GRE scores (24.4% of them), your salary expectations (26.5% of them) and whether you have worked or interviewed at the company before (41.7% of them).
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Frequently asked questions
How much do program and project managers earn in the space industry?
Going by the 503 distinct salaries currently posted for roles for program and project managers (each put on a full-time year), the typical range is $130k–$255k/yr and the median is $161k/yr. The top posted figure is $948k/yr, at Voyager Technologies. 287 of the 872 open roles for program and project managers state no pay, so check each listing.
Do I need a PMP?
Some roles ask for one; most ask instead for years of program or engineering experience, and many for an engineering degree. Every posting spells out its exact requirements and work site, so read each one. Of the 318 open roles for program and project managers whose requirements we read, 13 a master's, 233 at least a bachelor's and 72 name no degree.
What does a program or project manager do at a space company?
A program or project manager at a space company runs the delivery of a mission, vehicle or project: the schedule, the budget, the risks and the customer, across engineering, production and suppliers. Program control roles keep the schedules, costs and earned value behind it.
How do space companies hire program and project managers?
Each employer runs its own hiring, and each listing says what it asks for: the degree or the hands-on experience, the location, and for export-controlled work in the US, often U.S. person status. Of the employers hiring program and project managers now, European Space Agency (ESA) and US Space Force say they check credentials such as degrees. The section on how each employer checks you quotes each guide with its source.
Are these jobs real?
Every role here is read from a space employer's own careers page or job board (Muon Space, Anduril, Umbra and Astrolab among them), and each employer's page here covers who they are and how they hire. A real employer never charges you to apply, never asks you to buy equipment and never interviews you only by chat app.
Which space companies pay program and project managers the most?
Of the 9 employers whose postings for program and project managers state enough pay for a figure, the highest medians are Viasat ($183k/yr), Amazon Leo ($175k/yr) and Northrop Grumman ($170k/yr). A median is of what each employer's open roles post today, by the same formula for every employer.
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