Customer Success & Mission Deployment Lead
Sales & Business Development, Customer Service
San Francisco, CA, USA
You will be responsible for taking Satlyt customers from signed contract through integration, deployment, successful operations, renewal, and expansion.
This role sits at the intersection of customer success, technical program management, mission integration, and operations.
Satlyt is building the secure AI operating layer for satellites. Our customers deploy Satlyt across spacecraft and supporting infrastructure to run software, AI, networking, and data-processing workloads in environments where integration complexity and mission schedules matter.
Own customer onboarding after contract signature
Convert contracts and statements of work into executable deployment plans
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Coordinate
Satlyt engineering
Customer engineering
Payload teams
Ground teams
External partners
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Establish and manage
Milestones
Owners
Timelines
Dependencies
Success criteria
Manage integration and deployment schedules
Identify technical and operational risks before they become blockers
Coordinate testing and operational readiness
Maintain proactive customer communication
Own customer escalations through resolution
Manage multiple customer deployments simultaneously
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Track
Adoption
Usage
Customer health
Deployment progress
Customer outcomes
Identify opportunities to expand Satlyt across additional spacecraft and workloads
Support renewals and commercial expansion
Build standardized onboarding and deployment processes
Improve internal and customer-facing operational documentation
Help build the systems required to support a rapidly growing satellite fleet
4+ years of experience in technical program management, technical customer success, mission management, solutions delivery, aerospace, defense, infrastructure, or a similar environment
Demonstrated ownership of complex technical deployments
Strong project and program management skills
Ability to manage multiple teams, timelines, and dependencies
Strong technical fluency
Comfortable working directly with engineering teams
Excellent written and verbal communication
Strong operational discipline
Ability to identify and escalate risks early
Comfortable operating in an early-stage startup
Strong ownership mindset
Satellite mission operations
Spacecraft integration
Aerospace program management
Launch campaign experience
Government or defense programs
Technical SaaS or infrastructure products
Developer platforms
Hardware/software integration
Experience owning customer renewals or expansion