Director, Mission Engineering & Management

At Vast, our mission is to contribute to a future where billions of people are living and thriving in space. Vast is developing next-generation space stations to ensure a continuous human presence in space for America and its allies, enabling advanced microgravity research and manufacturing, and unlocking a new space economy for government, corporate, and private customers. Using an incremental, hardware-rich and low-cost approach, Vast is rapidly developing its multi-module Haven Station. Haven Demo’s 2025 success made Vast the only operational commercial space station company to fly and operate its own spacecraft. Next, Haven-1 is expected to become the world’s first commercial space station when it launches, followed by additional Haven modules to enable permanent human presence by 2030. Our team is all-in, committed to executing our mission safely and on time. If you want to work with the most talented people on Earth furthering space exploration for humanity, come join us.

Vast is seeking a Director, Mission Engineering & Management to own program and mission execution for a new constellation-ready spacecraft bus product line. Our first mission is a 10-satellite demo launch — the plan is to scale to hundreds of spacecraft per year.

We're developing a new constellation-ready 15kW spacecraft bus, with our first mission being a 10-satellite demo launch in Q4 2027 — multiple customer payloads, and a product line designed to scale to hundreds of spacecraft per year. This role owns the program and mission execution side: schedule, requirements, budgets, customer relationships, and launch campaign planning. You're the counterpart to the Director of Engineering — they deliver the hardware, you deliver the mission.

Between the two of you, systems engineering is covered. You own system-level requirements and interfaces, and you own whether engineering's bottoms-up budgets close against what the

Department: Satellite