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About Loft Federal
Loft Federal is committed to delivering the U.S. national security space community a fast, affordable, and streamlined pathway to orbit. As a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Loft Orbital Solutions, Inc., we specialize in providing mission-ready space infrastructure with unmatched efficiency.
At Loft, we empower our team with autonomy, ownership, and bold problem-solving opportunities while fostering a tight-knit, supportive environment. We believe that diversity, inclusivity, and community are the foundation of an open and innovative culture. We value kind, collaborative, and mission-driven teammates who excel in problem-solving and communication-because great solutions come from great teams.
Are you ready to embark on this exciting journey with us?
Loft Federal is seeking a Senior Subcontract Program Manager to help lead subcontract execution across federal space programs, proposals, and strategic supplier relationships.
This role will bring structure, ownership, and discipline to how Loft Federal manages subcontractors and suppliers across proposal, award, execution, delivery, and closeout. The Subcontract Program Manager will work across Programs, Contracts, Finance, Engineering, Procurement, Legal, Security, Quality, and Growth to ensure subcontractors are integrated into the overall program plan and held accountable to cost, schedule, technical, contractual, and deliverable commitments.
The right candidate will understand that subcontractor performance directly affects program execution, margin, customer confidence, and future capture. This person will be expected to operate in the details, identify supplier risks early, drive corrective action, and help build repeatable subcontract management practices as Loft Federal scales.
The Subcontract Program Manager will partner directly with Federal leadership, Program Managers, Engineering, Growth, Contracts, Legal, Finance, Procurement, Security, Quality, and external suppliers.
Why This Role Matters
Loft Federal is building and delivering complex national security space missions that depend on external partners, subcontractors, suppliers, payload providers, hardware vendors, software providers, and mission-enabling services.
Strong subcontract execution is critical to program delivery. A supplier delay, unclear SOW, unmanaged interface, late deliverable, invoice issue, security gap, or untracked assumption can quickly become a program problem, margin problem, or customer confidence problem.
This role will help Loft Federal manage subcontractors as an integrated part of the program baseline. The person in this seat will improve supplier accountability, proposal-to-execution continuity, program financial visibility, technical coordination, and issue escalation across current and future federal programs.
What You Will Own

• Manage subcontractor execution across the full program lifecycle, including proposal support, source selection input, subcontract award, execution, delivery, modification, and closeout.

• Lead subcontractor execution rhythms, including supplier status reviews, action tracking, deliverable tracking, issue resolution, and escalation.

• Ensure subcontractors understand and execute against approved statements of work, technical requirements, schedules, deliverables, reporting requirements, security requirements, and contractual obligations.

• Partner with Program Managers to integrate subcontractors into the overall program baseline, including schedule, budget, risks, deliverables, technical dependencies, and customer commitments.

• Track subcontractor performance against cost, schedule, technical, quality, contractual, security, and deliverable requirements.

• Coordinate with Engineering and Mission teams on technical progress, interface control, requirements allocation, verification planning, test readiness, delivery readiness, and acceptance criteria.

• Work with Contracts and Legal on subcontract terms, flowdowns, SDRLs/CDRLs, modifications, funding limits, invoicing requirements, compliance requirements, and closeout documentation.

• Support proposal activities involving subcontractors, including supplier inputs, SOW development, pricing assumptions, BOEs, risk inputs, deliverables, long-lead items, and execution assumptions.

• Improve proposal-to-execution continuity by carrying supplier assumptions, commitments, negotiated positions, risks, and pricing logic into program startup.

• Partner with Finance and Program Managers on subcontract budgets, forecasts, accruals, invoice reviews, EACs, ETCs, funding profiles, margin visibility, and supplier-driven financial risk.

• Identify subcontractor risks early and drive mitigation plans before issues become customer-facing problems.

• Lead supplier performance reviews and ensure actions are tracked to closure with named owners and due dates.

• Support subcontract change management, including scope changes, schedule impacts, funding changes, technical trades, and contract modifications.

• Maintain clear subcontract execution records that support program reviews, customer discussions, audits, internal reviews, and leadership decision-making.

• Support supplier evaluations, supplier scorecards, and future source selection input based on actual performance.

• Help build scalable subcontract management processes, templates, dashboards, and operating rhythms that improve execution without slowing the business down.

Required Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship required.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

• 3+ years of experience in subcontract management, supplier program management, program management, project management, procurement, contracts, supply chain, or related government contracting execution roles.

• Experience managing subcontractors or suppliers against cost, schedule, technical, contractual, and deliverable requirements.

• Experience supporting government contracting, aerospace, defense, space, national security technology, complex hardware, complex software, or similar program-based businesses.

• Working knowledge of federal contract execution, subcontract flowdowns, FAR/DFARS concepts, supplier documentation, and subcontract compliance requirements.

• Experience supporting proposals, supplier inputs, SOWs, pricing assumptions, BOEs, risk inputs, and proposal-to-execution transition.

• Experience working across Programs, Contracts, Procurement, Finance, Engineering, Quality, Security, and external suppliers.

• Ability to interpret subcontractor schedules, deliverables, risks, invoices, cost performance, technical status, and supplier performance data.

• Familiarity with federal contract types, including FFP, T&M, CPFF, and cost-type environments.

• Experience supporting invoice validation, accruals, EACs, ETCs, supplier forecasts, or program financial reviews.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to brief supplier status, risks, and recovery plans to program and business leadership.

• Ability to operate in a scaling business where systems, processes, and data are still maturing.

• High ownership, sound judgment, and willingness to engage in the operating details.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in national security space, spacecraft, hosted payloads, satellite systems, mission software, RF systems, edge processing, autonomy, ground systems, or complex hardware/software integration.

• Direct experience as a Subcontract Program Manager, Subcontracts Manager, Supplier Program Manager, Program Manager, Project Engineer, Control Account Manager, or IPT lead.

• Experience managing subcontractors supporting classified, CUI, export-controlled, or national security programs.

• Experience with supplier performance reviews, corrective action plans, integrated master schedules, risk registers, earned value environments, EACs, ETCs, and program controls.

• Experience developing or managing subcontract SOWs, SDRLs/CDRLs, technical requirements, acceptance criteria, and delivery milestones.

• Experience supporting federal proposals, including BOEs, supplier pricing, assumptions, compliance matrices, risk inputs, and subcontractor coordination.

• Experience with cost analysis, price analysis, invoice validation, accruals, and subcontract financial forecasting.

• Experience with ERP, procurement, planning, accounting, or program management systems such as NetSuite, Jira, Deltek, Costpoint, Unanet, SAP, Oracle, or similar platforms.

• Working knowledge of FAR/DFARS, DCAA/DCMA expectations, CMMC, export controls, government property, OCI, and subcontract audit documentation.

• Active Secret or Top Secret clearance.

Some of Our Awesome Benefits:

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance option for employees and dependents
• Flexible Spending (FSA) and Health Savings (HSA) Accounts offered with an employer contribution to the HSA
• 100% employer paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term, and Long-Term Disability insurance
• Flexible Time Off policy for vacation and sick leave, and 12 paid holidays
• 401(k) plan and equity options
• Daily catered lunches and snacks in office
• Fully paid parental leave; 14 weeks for birthing parent and 10 weeks for non-birthing parent
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• Off-sites and many social events and celebrations
• Relocation assistance when applicable

Per Colorado law, we are required to disclose the base compensation range for this role. This range is intentionally wide as we assess individuals based on their unique abilities and experience to find the best fit for our needs. Ultimately, your compensation will be determined by your education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.
In addition to a competitive salary and benefits package, you will find a truly remarkable culture guided by transparency and collaboration and work that is challenging and meaningful. We can't wait to meet you and see what you may add to our team!
Salary Range
$125,000-$210,000 USD
Equal Employment Opportunity & Affirmative Action
Loft Federal is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, veteran status, genetic information, disability, pregnancy, or any other legally protected status.
Accessibility & Accommodations
If you require a reasonable accommodation due to a disability when applying for an open position, please contact us at recruiting@loftfederal.com for assistance.
We Hire for Talent, Not Just Resumes
Research shows that while men apply for jobs when they meet about 60% of the qualifications, women and other underrepresented groups tend to apply only when they meet 100% of the listed criteria. At Loft Federal, we value diverse perspectives, respectful debate, and people who challenge assumptions. If you're excited about a role but don't meet every requirement, we strongly encourage you to apply.
Third-Party Recruiters & Agencies
No outside recruiters, please. Loft Federal does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, staffing agencies, or third-party recruiters. We will not pay fees for candidates submitted without a signed agreement in place.