Associate/Senior Associate Founder s Office

Digantara is a leading Space Surveillance and Intelligence​ company focused on ensuring orbital safety and sustainability. With expertise in space-based detection, tracking, identification, and monitoring, Digantara provides comprehensive domain awareness across regimes, allowing end users to have actionable intelligence on a single platform.

At the core of its infrastructure lies a sophisticated integration of hardware and software capabilities aligned with the key principles of situational awareness: perception (data collection), comprehension (data processing), and prediction (analytics). This holistic approach empowers Digantara to monitor all Resident Space Objects (RSOs) in orbit, fostering comprehensive domain awareness.

Why us :

• Founder's Office at Digantara will work directly with the Founder and senior leadership to drive mission-critical space technology, product, and infrastructure initiatives from concept to execution. 

• Hustle in a well-funded startup allowing you to take charge of your responsibilities and create your moonshot.

About the role

Strategic Program Management  

• Own and drive strategic space technology programs sponsored by the Founder and CEO. 

• Translate high-level business and mission objectives across Space Situational Awareness (SSA), Space Domain Awareness (SDA), space-based sensors, satellite systems, and data platforms into structured execution roadmaps. 

• Define program milestones, dependencies, deliverables, KPIs, and success metrics across engineering, product, and business teams. 

• Establish execution cadences, governance mechanisms, and program dashboards for critical initiatives. 

• Track end-to-end progress across technology development, productization, deployment, and operations. 

• Identify technical, operational, commercial, and execution risks and drive timely mitigation. 

Strategic Execution 

• Work directly with the Founder and CEO on high-priority strategic, technology, and business initiatives. 

• Prepare executive-level briefs, presentations, decision documents, and program reviews. 

• Convert ambiguous and complex deep-tech challenges into structured problem statements and actionable execution plans. 

• Conduct detailed analysis and deep dives across satellite systems, payload development, data platforms, product initiatives, and orbital operations. 

• Drive follow-through on strategic decisions across engineering, R&D, product, operations, and business teams.

• Support the Founder in evaluating new opportunities, partnerships, technologies, and strategic initiatives. 

Technology Program Leadership 

• Partner with Space Systems Engineering, Payload Development, Ground Systems, Data Science, AI/ML, Product, and Software Engineering teams. 

• Drive cross-functional programs involving satellite payloads, sensor systems, orbital deployments, software platforms, and data infrastructure. 

• Develop sufficient understanding of system-level architecture across space, ground, and data segments to effectively manage programs. 

• Ensure alignment between product roadmap, mission requirements, technology priorities, and engineering execution. 

• Monitor program health across development, system integration, testing, deployment, and operations. 

• Identify cross-functional dependencies and ensure timely resolution of execution bottlenecks. 

Ideal Candidate:

• Bachelor's/master's degree in engineering  and MBA from a reputed institution with strong academic and analytical grounding with 3-4 years of experience.

• Exposure to Founder's Office, Chief of Staff, or strategic execution roles is highly desirable. 

• Prior experience in high-growth startups, scale-ups, or fast-paced tech companies is strongly preferred. 

• Strong understanding of complex engineering and technology systems. 

• Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional programs and drive execution in ambiguous environments. 

• Strong analytical, structured problem-solving, and systems-thinking capabilities. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with executive presence. 

• Strong proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, data analysis, dashboards, and program management tools. 

• Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment. 

Location:Hebbal, Bangalore

Work Type: WFO , 5 days a week