Strategic Connectivity Manager (Starlink)
Palo Alto · Bastrop, TX · USD 125,000-195,000 · 2+ years experience · Posted Oct 19, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 2+ years experience
- Location
- Palo Alto · Bastrop, TX
- Salary
- USD 125,000-195,000 · Base salary
About the role
- SpaceX is seeking a Strategic Connectivity Manager for Starlink to focus on projects in the APAC, Middle East, and Central Asia region.
- The role involves expanding connectivity access, building excellent teams, sharing impact stories, and managing complex cross-functional projects.
- The Strategic Connectivity Projects team identifies and enables projects by assessing potential positive impact, applying business judgment, and having a bias for action.
Responsibilities
- Scale the use of Starlink in projects that have significant positive social and economic impact around the world.
- Develop and execute strategies that align with Starlink business goals as well as team-specific goals.
- Manage and grow capabilities to enable embracing projects of all sizes.
- Select, establish, and maintain key relationships that align with the strategy and mission, such as influential individuals, philanthropic entities, non-governmental organizations, and development banks.
- Measure and report progress towards goals, establishing new tracking methods if required.
- Maintain a strong grasp of standard Starlink product offerings and business processes.
- Apply excellent business judgement on if, when, and how to deviate.
- Ensure Starlink products, processes and capabilities develop with social and economic development project use cases in mind by identifying and justifying necessary changes or deviations.
- Identify and work collaboratively with key internal partners such as market access, global operations, growth, sales, legal, finance, account management, and communications.
- Work with communications team to collect and share compelling messaging and stories about Starlink’s positive impact around the world.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or business fields.
- 7+ years of experience in engineering or operations.
- 2+ years of project management experience.
Preferred qualifications
- Ability to champion and lead significant cross-functional projects and business initiatives, including ability to manage in an environment with competing priorities and limited resources
- Exceptional external interface and public speaking skills, including excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Successful internal communicator within SpaceX that possesses the ability to tailor communications appropriately to level (working-level to executive-level)
- Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills
- Strong ability to determine what projects to pursue that have positive social and economic development potential as well as are smart business decisions
- Ability to navigate risk and ambiguity successfully
Benefits
- Company stock or long-term cash awards
- Discretionary bonuses
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- 3 weeks of paid vacation
- 10 or more paid holidays per year
Workplace
- Must be willing to travel to other SpaceX offices and customer locations as needed (estimated need is 25% on average through the year, but there may be surges/concentrated periods).
