Lead day-to-day operations for a fast-growing satellite startup: build operational processes, manage vendors and procurement, support people ops (onboarding/offboarding/benefits), coordinate travel and events, and partner cross-functionally to scale infrastructure and tooling.
About Us
Array Labs is building the world’s most advanced earth observation satellites.
Traditional satellite imagery is flat, slow, and expensive. Array is different. We're developing a coordinated fleet of radar satellites that creates a continuously updated, high-resolution 3D view of the Earth, in any weather, day or night.
We design and build our satellites end-to-end, from the hardware in orbit to the software we use to process the data on the ground.
Our goal is to give government and commercial organizations, in disaster response, defense, infrastructure and environmental monitoring, telecommunications, and beyond, a faster, clearer picture of a changing world, allowing them to act with greater speed, confidence, and precision.
About the Job
Array Labs is looking for an Operations Manager to be the first dedicated Ops hire on a small, fast growing team. You'll report directly to the COO and own the infrastructure that keeps the company running. There's no playbook, so you’ll have the chance to shape the function, building out processes as you go.
This is an individual contributor role for someone who is comfortable operating in ambiguity without structure. You'll be expected to identify areas for improvement, prioritize needs without direction, and have the judgement needed to move quickly to make things happen.
Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day operations for Array Labs
- Drive foundational improvements that help scale our operation, including: designing and implementing lightweight internal processes and systems, standardizing core workflows to reduce friction as the team grows
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g., Engineering, Marketing) and with the Chief of Staff to guide decisionmaking in operational tooling and infrastructure
- Augment people operations, including onboarding, offboarding, policy documentation, and benefits coordination
- Own vendor relationships and procurement, from sourcing and contract negotiation to ongoing supplier management
- Manage event and travel logistics for customer office visits, candidate on-site interviews, conferences, demos, and company offsites
- Contribute creative operational solutions to complex and ambiguous technical problems
Basic Qualifications
- 5–10 years of operations experience, with meaningful time at an early-stage startup, where processes and structure were still being developed
- Broad operational experience spanning work with vendors, facilities, people ops, and cross-functional coordination
- Strong organizational instincts and the ability to juggle competing priorities
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity with minimal direction
Preferred Skills & Experience
- Prior experience as an early or first operations hire
- Experience working at a hardware, aerospace, or defense company
- Exposure to government contracting businesses or environments
Compensation & Benefits
Our hiring and compensation strategy is simple: find uncommonly good people and pay them uncommonly well.
We offer high flexibility between salary and equity-based compensation. Final candidates can choose from three compensation mixes: low, medium, or high equity. Equity is a significant component of total compensation, and we aim to provide meaningful ownership for this role.
Full-time employees also enjoy a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, a 401(k) with company match, commuter benefits, and more.
Interview Process
We will conduct interviews via Google Meet with the potential for an onsite visit; the typical process takes around 3-5 weeks to complete from start to finish.
Why Join Array
At Array Labs, deep technical expertise meets relentless impact. We prioritize curiosity over hierarchy and bold engineering over incremental gains. Our world-class team across hardware engineering, software, and aerospace works collaboratively to push boundaries and move fast.
Our values:
- Build What Matters: Create technology that serves customers and advances humanity
- Innovate Together: Stay curious, collaborate openly, push boundaries as one team
- Employee Centric: Put our people first with a culture of trust, respect, and opportunity
- Join industry-leading experts to deliver unprecedented insights about our planet and build the future of Earth observation.
ITAR Requirements
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.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Array Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made on the basis of merit, competence, and job qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by gender, color, race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender identity, veteran status, disability status, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please let us know.
Array Labs Palo Alto, California, USA Office
Palo Alto, CA, United States
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