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 all regimes, enabling end-users to gain 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?

Join a well-funded, fast-growing startup at the forefront of space technology. At Digantara, you’ll work on groundbreaking projects that ensure orbital safety and sustainability. We offer competitive incentives, a collaborative environment, and opportunities to innovate from day one.

Responsibilities:

• Break down high-level goals into structured workstreams, tasks and milestones.

• Build detailed project plans, schedules, Gantt charts and execution roadmaps.

• Pre-plan dependencies, long lead items and critical resource requirements.

• Conduct frequent on-site visits to oversee physical progress, quality and vendor readiness.

• Track progress continuously, pre-empt blockers and drive on ground resolution. 

• Act as the execution bridge between engineering, operations, facilities, suppliers and leadership.

• Coordinate on ground teams during deployments, installations, or integration phases.

• Run consistent review cadences, alignment meetings and documentation updates. Identify, evaluate and onboard multiple vendors/agencies across project phases.

• Conduct on-site inspections, monitor vendor execution, quality and timeline adherence.

• Negotiate commercial terms and drive cost optimisation without compromising standards.

Required Qualifications:

• 3-6 years of project management experience in engineering, infra, aerospace, hardware, and manufacturing environments.

• Technical aptitude to understand systems, integrations, electrical/mechanical basics, infrastructure readiness, or similar.

• Ability to read BOQs, technical drawings, layout plans, or engineering documentation (preferred).

• Hands-on proficiency with project management tools (Gantt, Jira/Kanban, MS Project, Smartsheet, etc.).

• Experience managing on-ground execution and fast-moving deployment cycles.

• Familiar with Agile, Kanban and hybrid execution methodologies.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement and documentation discipline.

• Strong ownership and willingness to travel extensively for project oversight.

Preferred Qualities:

• Experience in SpaceTech, aerospace, ground segment, or high reliability infrastructure projects.

• Prior exposure to vendor coordination across multiple states/regions.

• Certifications like PMP, CAPM, CSM, PRINCE2.

• Experience with control rooms, labs, operational centres (bonus).

General Requirements:

• Ability to take direction and work independently. 

• Interpersonal skills to enable working in a diverse and dynamic team. 

• Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule. 

• Good verbal and written communication skills as well as organizational skills. 

• Travel occasionally as necessary. 

• Fluent in English 

Job Location: Hebbal, Bengaluru