What are the responsibilities and job description for the VP of Satellite position at EVONA?
A fast-growing space technology company is building a next-generation Low Earth Orbit satellite system to deliver a globally scalable, mission-critical service.
As VP of Spacecraft Engineering you will own the end-to-end design, integration, and delivery of the spacecraft that power this system.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who has built and shipped satellites, thrives in a high-pace NewSpace environment, and is comfortable being the final technical decision-maker.
The Role
You will be the technical authority for the spacecraft, accountable for performance, cost, schedule, and execution.
Key Responsibilities Include
You Are
As VP of Spacecraft Engineering you will own the end-to-end design, integration, and delivery of the spacecraft that power this system.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who has built and shipped satellites, thrives in a high-pace NewSpace environment, and is comfortable being the final technical decision-maker.
The Role
You will be the technical authority for the spacecraft, accountable for performance, cost, schedule, and execution.
Key Responsibilities Include
- Owning the entire satellite platform across all subsystems
- Acting as Chief Engineer, defining and maintaining the system technical baseline and interfaces
- Leading system-level trade studies that balance performance, risk, cost, and schedule
- Overseeing integration, test, verification, launch, and on-orbit performance
- Driving design-for-manufacture and design-for-operations to enable scale
- Leading and growing a multi-disciplinary engineering organization (~25 engineers)
- Making clear technical decisions when teams disagree and standing behind them
- Communicating progress, risk, and trade-offs to executive leadership
You Are
- A systems engineer by background who now leads
- Technically deep across spacecraft subsystems, with depth in at least one
- Comfortable operating in fast-moving, higher-risk hardware programs
- Motivated by delivering complete, operational spacecraft, not just designs
- Significant experience in spacecraft development
- Proven ownership of satellites through design, integration, launch, and operations
- Demonstrated system-level integration and technical leadership
- Experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams
- Strong technical and executive-level communication skills
- True end-to-end spacecraft ownership
- High technical authority and autonomy
- Opportunity to scale a satellite platform from development to production
- Key leadership role in a rapidly growing space company