Senior Satellite Tasking Project Manager

Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence, helping decision makers and operators navigate what’s happening now and shape what’s coming next. Vantor is a place for problem solvers, changemakers, and go-getters—where people are working together to help our customers see the world differently, and in doing so, be seen differently. Come be part of a mission, not just a job, where you can: Shape your own future, build the next big thing, and change the world. Please review the job details below. The Senior Satellite Tasking Project Manager (12-month contract) leads the delivery of satellite tasking and collection management services for a strategic customer contract. This role is accountable for ensuring collection orders are planned and executed in accordance with customer priorities, contractual service level agreements, satellite collection capacity, and applicable image quality standards. The Senior Satellite Tasking Project Manager leads daily operational planning, monitors collection performance, manages customer expectations, coordinates with flight operations and other technical teams, and directs the resolution of issues affecting collection success or product quality. The role also supervises the Satellite Tasking Project Manager and drives the development of metrics, procedures, and automation that improve collection yield and operational efficiency. Key Responsibilities Lead daily satellite tasking and collection management operations, including prioritization, work assignment, schedule coordination, and operational coverage. Translate customer collection requirements into executable collection plans that account for customer priorities, imaging parameters, collection geometry, satellite capacity, and expected product quality. Optimize image collection schedules to maximize collection yield while meeting contractual service level agreements and customer deadlines. Review collection orders and tasking decisions to confirm that required parameters, priorities, and quality expectations have been correctly incorporated. Monitor collection execution, product delivery, collection success, image quality indicators, and service level agreement performance. Develop and maintain operational metrics, dashboards, and statistics related to collection success, collection yield, order completion, product quality, and schedule performance. Provide regular operational reports and performance briefings to customer and internal stakeholders. Serve as the primary operational interface with the customer, ensuring priorities, expectations, constraints, and potential service impacts are clearly communicated. Collaborate with flight operations to understand operating constraints, planned activities, and technical conditions that may affect collection schedules or product quality. Lead the identification, triage, escalation, and resolution of technical or procedural issues affecting tasking, collection, processing, or product delivery. Conduct or oversee root cause analysis for unsuccessful collections, quality deficiencies, service level agreement misses, and recurring operational issues. Analyze satellite collection and operational data to identify patterns, correlations, capacity constraints, and opportunities to improve tasking performance. Lead continuous improvement and automation initiatives that increase operational efficiency, reduce manual effort, and improve the consistency of recurring tasking routines. Develop, maintain, and enforce operating procedures, escalation paths, quality controls, and reporting standards for the satellite tasking team. Train, mentor, and provide day to day leadership to the Satellite Tasking Project Manager and other assigned personnel. Coordinate with customer, flight operations, product, engineering, processing, and delivery teams to maintain effective end to end collection operations. Support operational emergencies, priority collection requests, and time sensitive customer requirements