VP Ground Segment

Munich | Hybrid

Job description

Team & Reporting Line: CTO

Our Mission

At constellr, we're harnessing the power of space to solve one of Earth’s greatest challenges: climate resilience & security in a changing world. Our thermal satellite constellation delivers the most accurate land surface temperature data on the market, equipping commercial players, governments, defence agencies, and global institutions with the thermal intelligence they need to make strategic decisions– from national security and infrastructure to agriculture and climate resilience.

As a fast-scaling company with offices in Brussels, Freiburg, Munich, Washington and Toulouse, our multidisciplinary team of engineers, scientists, and strategists is building the future of space-based Earth observation

Your Role

Earth observation is entering a new paradigm. For decades, satellite data meant looking into the past: scenes captured days or weeks ago, retrieved from an archive. We are turning it into a live signal: near real time insights derived from space-based sensors that arrive while it still matters, for decisions where seconds count.

As VP Ground Segment you own the latency from order to delivered product, supporting constellr getting to near real-time insights from space at scale.

You lead the department as one agile software organisation: tasking, mission control, imaging and flight operations, data processing, data catalogue and cloud infrastructure. You own the outside interface to our data: the platform and APIs through which customers and internal users order, track and access our data.

And you own the archive: every scene we have ever captured, catalogued and accessible through one API. A high-resolution thermal record of the world's physical assets, and one of the most valuable building blocks of the company.

Key responsibilities

Own latency end to end, from customer order to delivered product, with a latency budget per step and a clear path to near real time.
Lead the Ground Segment as one agile software organisation. Teams design, build and run their services over the full lifecycle. Prepare architecture and organisation for the next satellite generations to onboard new sensors to the fleet.