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Staff AI Engineer
About Us:
BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company. We own and operate the world's most advanced space-based intelligence platform and provide customers satellite imagery, automated analytics and high-frequency monitoring of strategic locations, economic assets and events from around the globe. BlackSky is trusted by the most demanding allied military and intelligence organizations and commercial companies to deliver foresight into critical matters that affect national security and the economy. BlackSky's data enables governments and businesses to see, understand and anticipate change as it happens, giving them the ultimate strategic advantage so they can act quickly. Our global team works with cutting-edge technology to make a difference around the world and prides itself on being people-first, customer-focused and fun.
BlackSky is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to lead the architecture, development, and delivery of mission-critical AI solutions within customer environments. This is a hands-on role and an opportunity to develop and shape an exciting new growth area. The ideal candidate for this role blends deep technical ownership (roadmap, R&D, AI/ML systems) with customer-facing solution delivery (scoping, prototype-to-production, and executive communication). This senior individual contributor role will partner with CV, MLOps, Data QA, Solutions, and BD teams to ensure BlackSky delivers reliable and actionable insights. The role will be full-time based out of Herndon, VA working in our SCIF with occasional customer site commitments and will report to the Senior Manager of AI.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with CV and MLOps to design and extend components needed to ensure models are trained, versioned, deployed, monitored, and maintained reliably in customer environments.
- Collaborate with the Data QA team to define annotation standards, resolve taxonomy issues, and identify data-quality improvements based on model failure modes.
- Independently prototype, evaluate, and deploy AI capabilities in a secure development environment.
- Communicate technical strategy, progress, risks, and opportunities clearly to leadership, cross-functional partners, and other stakeholders.
- Contribute to proposals, white papers, and long-term strategy, shaping future mission-aligned geospatial AI investments.
- Own and architect the mission-aligned roadmap for geospatial CV and applied AI, partnering with customers to translate mission requirements into technical designs and implementing core components.
- Other job-related duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum of 10 years of hands-on software engineering experience, including at least 4+ years developing and deploying applied AI/ML systems and pipelines.
- Bachelor’s degree in CS/EE/math/statistics or a related quantitative field.
- Strong proficiency in Python and modern ML/CV libraries such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
- Experience researching, building, and evaluating production-ready CV models for detection, segmentation, change detection, or related tasks.
- Experience working with remote sensing imagery including geometry, radiometric normalization, augmentation, and sensor-specific challenges.
- Hands-on experience with geospatial tools such as GDAL, Rasterio, GeoPandas, Shapely, xarray, or Zarr.
- Experience with modern ML infrastructure, including cloud services (e.g., AWS), containerization and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes), and the ability to adapt these systems to customer-specific or offline environments such as secure enclaves, on-prem systems, or air-gapped deployments.
- Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences including leadership and technical teams.
- Must have an active US Top Secret clearance with an SCI.
Preferred Qualifications:
- M.S. or Ph.D. in CS/EE/math/statistics or a related quantitative field.
- At least 2 years of experience designing, building, and operating AI/ML systems in secure, on-prem and/or air-gapped systems.
- Experience working in DoD, IC, or Fed/Civ environments.
- Experience designing and executing large-scale CV experiments, including dataset construction, synthetic/augmented data generation, and evaluation protocols tailored to mission needs.
- Familiarity with remote sensing data sources including BlackSky, Airbus, Planet, and Vantor.
- Demonstrated experience designing CV/ML systems and pipelines that meet or exceed benchmarks and are optimized for production constraints such as latency and efficiency.
- Exposure to foundation models, VLMs, and other multimodal approaches for geospatial imagery.
Life at BlackSky for full-time US benefits eligible employees includes:
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life and AD&D, voluntary life and AD&D insurance
- BlackSky pays 100% of employee-only premiums for medical, dental and vision and contributes $100/month for out-of-pocket expenses!
- 15 days of PTO, 11 Company holidays, four Floating Holidays (pro-rated based on hire date), one day of paid volunteerism leave per year, parental leave and more
- 401(k) pre-tax and Roth deferral options with employer match
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs
- Employer matching donations
- Professional development
- Mac or PC? Your choice!
- Awesome swag
BlackSky is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer All Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
EEO/AAP/ Pay Transparency Statements:
https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf
https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf
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Treasury Manager
About Us:
BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company. We own and operate the world's most advanced space-based intelligence platform and provide customers satellite imagery, automated analytics and high-frequency monitoring of strategic locations, economic assets and events from around the globe. BlackSky is trusted by the most demanding allied military and intelligence organizations and commercial companies to deliver foresight into critical matters that affect national security and the economy. BlackSky's data enables governments and businesses to see, understand and anticipate change as it happens, giving them the ultimate strategic advantage so they can act quickly. Our global team works with cutting-edge technology to make a difference around the world and prides itself on being people-first, customer-focused and fun.
The Treasury Manager will report to the Corporate Treasurer / VP FP&A and support the treasury management function by providing robust cash management oversight and recommendations to optimize BlackSky’s use and investment of cash. You will be responsible for maintaining adequate cash balances including the forecasting of short-term and long-term cash flows to support BlackSky operations. Additionally, you will be a key partner to several functional Finance teams and serve as a trusted liaison between BlackSky and external banking partners. While the team works remotely, you will ideally live in proximity to Herndon, VA to facilitate occasional in-person team meetings and events.
Responsibilities:
- Monitor daily cash positions and ensure adequate liquidity for operational needs. Review and/or approve over threshold wire transfers and ACH payments processed by A/P.
- Develop and maintain detailed short-term and long-term cash flow forecasts to plan for future liquidity needs and identify strategies to optimize cash and investment balances.
- Manage bank accounts, including account openings, closings and maintenance of signatory authorities. Establish and maintain strong relationships with financial institutions to optimize services and fees.
- Identify and mitigate treasury risks, including performing periodic customer creditworthiness evaluations and financial reviews of banking partners.
- Evaluate investment opportunities for excess cash in alignment with the company's investment policies. Ensure compliance with investment guidelines and monitor returns on investments. Prepare recommendations for maximizing returns on idle cash.
- Partner with Finance leadership to plan for and fund strategic investments to grow the business via working capital, equity, debt, M&A, or other organic fundraising endeavors.
- Prepare periodic cash reports for senior management. Conduct variance analyses and provide actionable insights into cash flow trends.
- Prepare sales commission analyses and resultant payment requests.
- Other job-related duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
- A bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, business management, or related field; equivalent experience plus certifications in lieu of a degree will be considered.
- Minimum of 5-8 years of cash management and corporate treasury experience in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong business acumen with top-notch verbal and written communication skills along with the ability to build professional rapport with colleagues and external partners.
- A proficiency with Microsoft Excel modeling and familiarity with data query/data visualization tools (e.g., Cognos, SQL, Tableau, Power BI).
- The ability to work and make decisions with a high degree of independence.
- Excellent attention to detail to support our best-in-class team.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certified Treasury Professional (CTP), Certified Treasury Manager (CTM), or other certification.
- Experience in a software, satellite/space technology, or related industry is helpful.
Life at BlackSky for full-time benefits eligible employees includes:
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life and AD&D, voluntary life and AD&D insurance
- BlackSky pays 100% of employee-only premiums for medical, dental and vision and contributes $100/month for out-of-pocket expenses!
- 15 days of PTO, 11 Company holidays, four Floating Holidays (pro-rated based on hire date), one day of paid volunteerism leave per year, parental leave and more
- 401(k) pre-tax and Roth deferral options with employer match
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs
- Employer matching donations
- Professional development
- Mac or PC? Your choice!
- Awesome swag
The anticipated salary range for candidates in Seattle, WA is $100,000-$130,000 per year. The final compensation package offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on specific background and education. BlackSky is a multi-state employer, and this pay scale may not reflect salary ranges in other states or locations outside of Seattle, WA.
BlackSky is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer All Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. #LI-Remote
EEO/AAP/ Pay Transparency Statements:
https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf
https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf
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VP, Customer Operations
About Us:
BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company. We own and operate the world's most advanced space-based intelligence platform and provide customers satellite imagery, automated analytics and high-frequency monitoring of strategic locations, economic assets and events from around the globe. BlackSky is trusted by the most demanding allied military and intelligence organizations and commercial companies to deliver foresight into critical matters that affect national security and the economy. BlackSky's data enables governments and businesses to see, understand and anticipate change as it happens, giving them the ultimate strategic advantage so they can act quickly. Our global team works with cutting-edge technology to make a difference around the world and prides itself on being people-first, customer-focused and fun.
The Vice President of Customer Operations is responsible for driving world-class customer experience, retention, and growth across a set of customers supported by the Account Management team. The VP will define the operational strategy, build global high-performing teams, optimize the customer journey, and partner with Sales, Product, and Engineering leadership to ensure customers receive maximum value from BlackSky’s unique real-time intelligence capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and scale multidisciplinary customer-facing organizations globally.
- Develop operational processes, KPIs, and performance dashboards that measure satisfaction and drive improvements.
- Recruit, mentor, and develop customer-centric teams across multiple regions.
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with domestic and international government and commercial customers.
- Lead complex, high-touch, technical customer engagements with long lifecycle demands.
- Communicate effectively with executive-level and technical stakeholders.
- Drive strategies that maximize customer retention, recurring revenue, and account expansion.
- Build customer health metrics and forecasting models to track experience, usage, and growth potential.
- Partner closely with Sales and Business Development to ensure seamless customer success and expansion.
- Apply knowledge of remote sensing, geospatial analytics, and space-based intelligence solutions to customer needs.
- Guide discussions on SLAs, data delivery, system integrations, and operational workflows.
- Translate complex technical concepts to support decision-making for non-technical audiences.
- Design and optimize onboarding, support, and retention processes across the full customer lifecycle.
- Lead incident management, service reliability, and quality assurance initiatives.
- Map and enhance the end-to-end customer journey for efficiency and satisfaction.
- Translate BlackSky’s corporate vision into a cohesive customer operations strategy.
- Provide insights and customer intelligence that guide product prioritization and roadmap evolution.
- Work closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Executive Teams to support strategic priorities.
- Represent Customer Operations in presentations to leadership, partners, and government stakeholders.
- Lead transformation efforts in rapidly evolving environments.
- Implement new structures, processes, and systems to support long-term scale.
- Drive modernization initiatives that elevate the customer experience and operational effectiveness.
Success Metrics
- Customer satisfaction and NPS improvements
- Customer retention and renewal rates
- Account expansion and usage growth
- Time-to-value and onboarding efficiency
- Operational reliability and incident reduction
- Performance of customer-facing team
- Adoption and impact of operational processes and tools
Required Experience & Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business or related field
- 20+ years of total professional experience
- At least 10 years leading customer-facing teams
- Minimum 6 years in the geospatial or remote sensing sector
- Proven experience scaling global customer operations teams
- Strong operational, analytical, and strategic planning capabilities
- Experience with complex technical or government customer engagements
- Excellent communication and executive stakeholder management skills
Travel Requirements
- Domestic and international travel as required (typically 15-20%) to support customer engagements, team activities, and executive meetings.
Work Environment
- Fast-paced, high-growth technology and space industry environment
- Strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration and remote teamwork
- Ability to work across multiple time zones and global teams
- Flexible work location depending on organizational needs
Life at BlackSky for full-time benefits eligible employees includes:
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life and AD&D, voluntary life and AD&D insurance
- BlackSky pays 100% of employee-only premiums for medical, dental and vision and contributes $100/month for out-of-pocket expenses!
- 15 days of PTO, 11 Company holidays, four Floating Holidays (pro-rated based on hire date), one day of paid volunteerism leave per year, parental leave and more
- 401(k) pre-tax and Roth deferral options with employer match
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs
- Employer matching donations
- Professional development
- Mac or PC? Your choice!
- Awesome swag
BlackSky is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. #LI-Hybrid
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Staff Application Management Specialist
About Us:
BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company. We own and operate the world's most advanced space-based intelligence platform and provide customers satellite imagery, automated analytics and high-frequency monitoring of strategic locations, economic assets, and events from around the globe. BlackSky is trusted by the most demanding allied military and intelligence organizations and commercial companies to deliver foresight into critical matters that affect national security and the economy. BlackSky's data enables governments and businesses to see, understand and anticipate change as it happens, giving them the ultimate strategic advantage so they can act quickly. Our global team works with cutting-edge technology to make a difference around the world and prides itself on being people-first, customer-focused and fun.
The Staff Specialist within the Portfolio Management Office is the primary steward for BlackSky’s enterprise applications portfolio. This role is responsible for application life cycle management, vendor selection and management, and cost budgeting and management for the enterprise application portfolio. The Staff Specialist works in tight collaboration with IT and Security, the PMO Director, and various functional managers across BlackSky. This role will develop a comprehensive application management system to ensure timely and planful vendor contract development and renewals, new application implementations, application integrations, application consolidations and/or deprecations, application release updates, customizations, and related ongoing operational activities to ensure reliable application adoption and feature exploitation all with an eye toward ensuring that BlackSky is attaining maximum business value and needed scalability from its portfolio of enterprise applications. This is a hybrid role based out of our Herndon, VA corporate headquarters expected to be onsite twice a week and reports to the Director, PMO.
Responsibilities:
- As an individual contributor, serve as primary steward for the enterprise application portfolio.
- Develop and operate a comprehensive system for full life cycle management of the enterprise applications portfolio
- Lead vendor management and contract development, including coordination for implementations, migrations, consolidations, customizations, upgrades, and release processes.
- Manage ongoing configuration, support, user training, feature exploitation, and timely stakeholder request fulfillment.
- Track and manage cost budgets for the enterprise application portfolio, ensuring cost efficiency and alignment with business needs.
- In conjunction with IT, Security and other internal stakeholders:
- Plan and manage system integrations and other one-time system improvements, implementations, migrations or consolidations.
- Ensure systems remain secure, reliable, and fully leveraged to support company operations and scaling.
- Other job-related duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in information systems, business, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Minimum of 10 years of experience of full life cycle enterprise application management, vendor management, contract management, and project management.
- Hands-on experience with ERP, finance, contract management, CRM or similar enterprise systems (implementations, upgrades, migrations, consolidations, configurations).
- Full SDLC understanding and deep requirements management capabilities including experience with Rational DOORs, Jama, or similar requirements management tool.
- Proficient with MS Office, SharePoint, and Application Lifecycle Management capabilities via Manage Engine, ServiceNow, or equivalent.
- Strong problem-solving and stakeholder communication skills.
- Exceptionally organized with meticulous attention to detail.
- High altruism with a strong customer service orientation. Consulting and professional services experience strongly preferred.
- Relentless self-learner.
Preferred Qualifications:
- SOX compliance and controls familiarity.
- Familiarity with vendor negotiation and contract life cycle management.
- Knowledge of system integration and change management processes.
- ITIL credential (Foundation and/or Managing Professional).
Life at BlackSky for full-time US benefits eligible employees includes:
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life and AD&D, voluntary life and AD&D insurance
- BlackSky pays 100% of employee-only premiums for medical, dental and vision and contributes $100/month for out-of-pocket expenses!
- 15 days of PTO, 11 Company holidays, four Floating Holidays (pro-rated based on hire date), one day of paid volunteerism leave per year, parental leave and more
- 401(k) pre-tax and Roth deferral options with employer match
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs
- Employer matching donations
- Professional development
- Mac or PC? Your choice!
- Awesome swag
BlackSky is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer All Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. #LI-Hybrid
EEO/AAP/ Pay Transparency Statements:
https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf
https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf
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Senior Director of Business Development, Unified Combatant Commands (CCMDs) and Service Components
About Us:
BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company. We own and operate the world's most advanced space-based intelligence platform and provide customers satellite imagery, automated analytics and high-frequency monitoring of strategic locations, economic assets and events from around the globe. BlackSky is trusted by the most demanding allied military and intelligence organizations and commercial companies to deliver foresight into critical matters that affect national security and the economy. BlackSky's data enables governments and businesses to see, understand and anticipate change as it happens, giving them the ultimate strategic advantage so they can act quickly. Our global team works with cutting-edge technology to make a difference around the world and prides itself on being people-first, customer-focused and fun.
As the Senior Director of Business Development, Unified Combatant Commands (CCMDs) and Service Components, you will be responsible for identifying opportunities within the defense agencies of the US Government as well as communicating and coordinating business opportunities with key stakeholders within the BlackSky organization. You will also coordinate and execute total solutions to our customers to achieve new sales
You will use your extensive background in business development and sales to define strategies to achieve successful program awards and product sales. Directly interfacing with both government and industry decisionmakers, operators and experts, this position will develop long term relationships aimed at maturing and sustaining a foundational line of business within the USSF. The primary emphasis on business development and sales strategy in this position is for USSF, your secondary role will be with other DoD intelligence and operations organizations with a goal of expanding new sales opportunities. This position will be in the Herndon, VA office and report to the Vice President of USG, Business Development and Sales.
The Senior Director of CCMDs Business Development and Sales will report to the VP of USG BD and Sales. We are seeking experienced BD professionals with a proven track record of successfully leading capture of long-term, reoccurring revenue generating opportunities; a deep understanding of the CCMD and Service Component GEOINT and Tactical Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting, operations, mission, priorities, and plans.
Responsibilities:
- Work with internal division technology leaders and key internal stakeholders in the division on BD and sales opportunities setting sales strategy, tactics, proposals, and negotiations for new product solutions as well as coordinating qualified new business capture and sales with government agencies.
- Build trust and lasting relationships with current and future customers to identify their needs and map them with BlackSky capabilities.
- Lead sales capture efforts for advanced programs and new technical solutions for the customer that align to the business growth strategies of the division.
- Lead complex negotiations with industry partners to build teams supporting large procurements and capture support for technical bids, including identifying and comprehending clients’ requirements and buying patterns.
- Evaluate opportunities for organic and new business growth, solve technical questions, work with other BlackSky technical experts to coordinate, and refine and tailor innovative solutions achieve sales objectives.
- Create and sustain classified communications pursuits for BlackSky, working with existing BD and Program Management Staff.
- Responsible for market growth and expansion.
- Maintain sales volume, product mix, and selling price by keeping current with supply and demand, changing trends, economic indicators, and competitors.
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
- Other responsibilities as needed.
Required Qualifications:
- Must have Active IC/DoD Top Secret/SCI Clearance and be willing and able to obtain CI Polygraph.
- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field.
- At least 10 years of experience working with the CCMD and Service Component Intelligence and Operations organizations.
- At least 15 years of domain experience in space/satellite operations, ISR, and GEOINT.
- A minimum of 10 years of leadership experience with at least 3 years in sales in the National Security space (Defense, the Military Services and the Intelligence Community), to include proposal development, preparation, analysis, writing, and reviews.
- Active Top-Secret clearance, with SCI eligibility.
- Demonstrated success as both an individual contributor and leader on government proposal efforts.
- Proven ability to drive key client communication and expectations, both internally and externally.
- Superior complex problem solving and decision-making abilities.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in business administration or finance
- Experience managing opportunity pipeline in Salesforce.
- Experience in multiple IC, DoD agencies and/or Joint assignments.
Life at BlackSky for full-time benefits eligible employees includes:
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life and AD&D, voluntary life, and AD&D insurance
- BlackSky pays 100% of employee-only premiums for medical, dental and vision and contributes $100/month for out-of-pocket expenses!
- 15 days of PTO, 11 Company holidays, four Floating Holidays (pro-rated based on hire date), one day of paid volunteerism leave per year, parental leave and more.
- 401(k) pre-tax and Roth deferral options with employer match
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs
- Employer matching donations
- Professional development
- Mac or PC? Your choice!
- Awesome swag
BlackSky is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer All Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
EEO/AAP/ Pay Transparency Statements:
https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf
https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf
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Senior Portfolio Management Office (PMO) Analyst
About Us:
BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company. We own and operate the world's most advanced space-based intelligence platform and provide customers satellite imagery, automated analytics and high-frequency monitoring of strategic locations, economic assets, and events from around the globe. BlackSky is trusted by the most demanding allied military and intelligence organizations and commercial companies to deliver foresight into critical matters that affect national security and the economy. BlackSky's data enables governments and businesses to see, understand and anticipate change as it happens, giving them the ultimate strategic advantage so they can act quickly. Our global team works with cutting-edge technology to make a difference around the world and prides itself on being people-first, customer-focused and fun.
The Senior Analyst role enables the Portfolio Management Office (PMO) by working in close coordination with the PMO Director to develop, maintain, and operate full lifecycle processes for the organization's work portfolio, including both direct customer-facing contract-based work as well as indirect internal work. This work includes strategic work alignment and value justification, performance tracking and reporting, and execution excellence while also owning the administration and configuration of the PPM platform. The Senior Analyst will directly handle the scheduling and fulfillment of key monthly operating events and activities both within and outside of the Office of the COO. This position is a hybrid role based out our Herndon, VA headquarters and reports to the Director, PMO.
Responsibilities:
- Provide lifecycle oversight, controls, and health monitoring for the delivery portfolio (direct and indirect work sub-portfolios) and fulfillment of all requisite monthly operational duties.
- Ensure strategic fit and value justification for all indirect initiatives as well as proper work and financial charge code setup in coordination with sponsoring executives and owning functional managers.
- Planning, development, maintenance, and configuration control of PMO policies, standards, processes, procedures, tool guides and other reference artifacts.
- Serve as the PPM platform system administrator and configurator. This includes tier 1 user support, access management, basic customizations, user adoption, report design/setup, proactive data completeness and quality monitoring, PPM product roadmap awareness and planning, system integrations, and feature exploitation.
- Curriculum development and user training delivery in areas of responsibility.
- Direct service support to PMs in the areas of: WBS development, schedule development, financial management, risk management, resources management and other requisite program management domains.
- Other job-related duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, project management, engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- At least 6 years of experience in a medium- to large-size enterprise line-of-business PMO or an enterprise PMO for a small- to medium-sized company.
- Portfolio/delivery management, project/program controls, and PPM tool administration and configuration (e.g. OnePlan, NH360 Portfolio Insights, Planisware, Cora, Shibumi, Planview, Clarity).
- Excellent listening, collaboration, and communication skills for working with PMs, other functional managers, and PPM platform users from across the company.
- Proficient with MS Office, SharePoint configuration, MS Project, process mapping (MS Visio, io.draw).
- Exceptionally organized with meticulous attention to detail.
- High altruism with a strong customer service orientation. Consulting and professional services experience strongly preferred.
- Relentless self-learner.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity and/or experience with PMO-related maturity models: OPM3, P3M3, PMMM, CMMI
- Well versed in contract management processes and terminology.
- Background in process improvement and organizational change management grounded in lean engineering.
- Experience in defense, intelligence, or geospatial environments with US Government contracting.
- Data architecture and integration, ETL, and Power BI (or similar tool) experience.
- PfMP and PgMP/PMP, SAFe, or related certification.
Life at BlackSky for full-time US benefits eligible employees includes:
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life and AD&D, voluntary life and AD&D insurance
- BlackSky pays 100% of employee-only premiums for medical, dental and vision and contributes $100/month for out-of-pocket expenses!
- 15 days of PTO, 11 Company holidays, four Floating Holidays (pro-rated based on hire date), one day of paid volunteerism leave per year, parental leave and more
- 401(k) pre-tax and Roth deferral options with employer match
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs
- Employer matching donations
- Professional development
- Mac or PC? Your choice!
- Awesome swag
BlackSky is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer All Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. #LI-Hybrid
EEO/AAP/ Pay Transparency Statements:
https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf
https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf
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Financial Systems Administrator
About Us:
BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company. We own and operate the world's most advanced space-based intelligence platform and provide customers satellite imagery, automated analytics and high-frequency monitoring of strategic locations, economic assets and events from around the globe. BlackSky is trusted by the most demanding allied military and intelligence organizations and commercial companies to deliver foresight into critical matters that affect national security and the economy. BlackSky's data enables governments and businesses to see, understand and anticipate change as it happens, giving them the ultimate strategic advantage so they can act quickly. Our global team works with cutting-edge technology to make a difference around the world and prides itself on being people-first, customer-focused and fun.
BlackSky is seeking a Financial Systems Administrator to support our Herndon location. Directly reporting to the Information Systems Manager, you will be responsible for the ongoing management and continuous improvement of the BlackSky implementation of the Deltek Costpoint and OneStream systems. They will work closely with the Accounting team on many solutions, configurations, and reports. This is a hybrid position based out of our Herndon, VA office.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with the Accounting team to support projects and ongoing financial initiatives.
- Provide day-to-day support and troubleshooting for Deltek systems to ensure smooth operations for employees.
- Design, develop, and maintain reports using Deltek's Cognos/BI tools.
- Collaborate with IT and Financial Systems teams to resolve application issues, deliver enhancements, and support user training.
- Manage system access, roles, security settings within Deltek Costpoint in alignment with compliance and internal controls.
- Coordinate and perform testing for system upgrades, patches, and new feature implementations to minimize business disruptions.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive system documentation including process flows, system configuration guides, and training materials.
- Partner with the Compliance department to align system use with company policies and support audit activities.
- Contribute to process improvement initiatives and perform other related duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Management Information Systems, or IT-related field.
- A minimum of four years of experience in Deltek Costpoint and COGNOS/BI ERP system as Functional Systems Analyst or like role with expert level understanding of all Deltek modules including project accounting.
- At least three years of experience working directly with Accounting teams.
- Must have extensive experience with Deltek Costpoint application and COGNOS/BI. Serves as Subject Matter Expert for Deltek and associated systems and interfaces.
- Ability to create, edit, and schedule COGNOS/BI reports from the Costpoint database.
- Strong Financial background and general knowledge of accounting principles.
- Proficient at strategic planning and execution, analyzing problems, identifying solutions, integrating efforts, and generating desired results.
- Excellent analytical and organizational skills; strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Thrives in an integrated team environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Deltek University PIM Core certification.
- Experience with supporting OneStream.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing executives and key stakeholders.
- Experience in directing and program managing internal and external technical implementation teams.
- Demonstrated ability to launch and deliver initiatives on time and within budget in a high-pressure, time sensitive environment.
- Technology industry experience, ideally including software and long-term contracting.
Life at BlackSky for full-time benefits eligible employees includes:
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life and AD&D, voluntary life, and AD&D insurance
- BlackSky pays 100% of employee-only premiums for medical, dental and vision and contributes $100/month for out-of-pocket expenses!
- 15 days of PTO, 11 Company holidays, four Floating Holidays (pro-rated based on hire date), one day of paid volunteerism leave per year, parental leave and more.
- 401(k) pre-tax and Roth deferral options with employer match
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs
- Employer matching donations
- Professional development
- Mac or PC? Your choice!
- Awesome swag
BlackSky is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer All Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
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