Senior Associate, Business Operations

Company: Relativity Space
Location: Long Beach
Posted on: April 22, 2025

Job Description:

At Relativity Space, we have two audacious goals: to build the next great commercial launch company with Terran R and to become America's leading force in additive manufacturing innovation. Both contribute to our long-term vision of creating humanity's industrial base on Mars, paving the way for interplanetary life to expand the possibilities of the human experience. This journey begins right here on Earth - where we design, build, and fly rockets to deliver customer payloads to orbit. Terran R, our medium-to-heavy lift reusable rocket, fulfills the growing demand for launch capacity, thanks to our iterative approach that accelerates design, testing, and development while minimizing costs. While our groundbreaking research and development in 3D printing pushes the boundaries of large-scale additive manufacturing.Your journey with us is more than just a job - it's an opportunity to shape the future of aerospace technology, additive manufacturing, and the human experience alongside a community of passionate, creative individuals. Join us on this extraordinary journey, as we work together to transform our vision into reality.About the Team:The Finance & Strategy team works cross-functionally and supports growth, innovation, strategic initiatives, and capital investments. It's a highly impactful and dynamic team that focuses on business strategy, financial plans including budgets and our long-term strategic plan, KPI development and management, materials for our Board of Directors, fundraising and corporate development activities.About the Role:

• Work closely with multi-discipline manufacturing, engineering, construction, facility, and operations team members to process, document, and track invoices, update project budgets and maintain forecasts.
• Operate efficiently and effectively to support Relativity's developing infrastructure and related facilities by engaging cross functional partners in infrastructure, facilities, and operations.
• Manage project performance by reviewing labor and materials actuals, supporting analysis of actuals vs. plan, schedule status, cost/schedule integration and performance, corrective action plans, performance recovery plans, and baseline planning.
• Provide timely and accurate financial information and recommendations to decision makers to make prudent business decisions.
• Serve as a trusted business partner to the rest of the organization by driving key trade decisions, assessing the financial and operating impact of our decisions, and strategically driving the best outcome for the business.
• Analyze complex production issues and support engineering in deriving smart and scrappy solutions to keep to production schedule, cost, and quality goals.
• Conduct ad-hoc analyses as needed to support operational decision making.About You:
  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Engineering, or other related discipline and 2+ years of experience working in the aerospace, construction, manufacturing, or other related industry (Internship experience will be counted).
  • Financial modeling, analysis, budget tracking, and reporting skills required.
  • Outstanding ability to build and interpret information from large and varied data sets.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills - including the ability to translate complex and ambiguous engineering and production requirements into clear and actionable financial decisions.
  • Proficient in Excel.Nice to haves but not required:
    • Experience with manufacturing systems within the aerospace industry.
    • Familiar with aerospace planning, procedures and operations, and safety.At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more!Hiring Range:$110,000 - $140,000 USDWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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