Product Owner – Harness Manufacturing

Location: El Segundo, California, Onsite

Compensation: 150,000 to 215,000 USD per year U.S. Citizenship Required (Security Clearance Eligible) Darwin Space are partnered with an exciting national security space company who are developing advanced small satellites for high priority U.S. government missions. They are looking for a Product Owner for Manufacturing Harness who will own schedule, cost and technical performance across assigned hardware deliverables, ensuring subsystem components are built, tested and delivered with quality and on schedule. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys a blend of technical oversight, manufacturing coordination, program execution and continuous improvement. You will work with engineering, production, ATLO and program management to drive execution across multiple hardware flowlines while improving manufacturability and supporting long term product strategy. This is a senior individual contributor role with high visibility across programs and customers.

Role Overview: The Product Owner for Manufacturing Harness will coordinate subsystem deliverables across engineering, procurement, manufacturing and test. You will manage project scope, schedules, cost estimates, risk and Earned Value inputs, while ensuring all technical work aligns with program needs. You will support roadmap planning, develop historical cost and schedule data for future baselines, track discrepancies, drive issue resolution and provide program status to leadership and customers. This role requires a balance of organisational skill, technical understanding, communication ability and cross functional leadership.