Director of IT
Astrolab
IT, Education
hawthorne, ca, usa
Posted on Feb 4, 2025
Venturi Astrolab, Inc. (Astrolab) is pioneering new ways to explore and operate on distant planetary bodies. We are singularly focused on designing, building, and operating a fleet of multi-purpose commercial planetary rovers to extend and enhance humanity’s presence in the solar system. We are seeking motivated, creative, and exceptional people to join our world-class team.
The Director of IT will oversee the organization’s IT operations and security, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives. This role involves managing the company’s technology infrastructure, including networks and data centers, and the IT services that support business operations and service delivery. The Manager of IT is responsible for ensuring the integrity, availability, and security of data and IT systems, as well as compliance with cybersecurity, regulatory, customer, and data privacy standards while ensuring an efficient and effective user experience.
The Director of IT will oversee the organization’s IT operations and security, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives. This role involves managing the company’s technology infrastructure, including networks and data centers, and the IT services that support business operations and service delivery. The Manager of IT is responsible for ensuring the integrity, availability, and security of data and IT systems, as well as compliance with cybersecurity, regulatory, customer, and data privacy standards while ensuring an efficient and effective user experience.
- Department
- IT
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- Hawthorne, California
- Workplace type
- Onsite
- Compensation
- $172,000 - $261,000 / year
- Reporting To
- Denise Brown
What you'll do:
- Business Support & Planning: Develop, design, implement and support the right solutions to support the functional needs of Astrolab
- Strategic Planning: Determine long-term needs and pursue purchases and contracts to achieve business objectives
- Budget Management: Oversee budgeting, strategic planning, and forecasting
- Team Leadership: Support, train, coach, manage, and mentor IT personnel and vendors to support a user-friendly environment with efficient solutions
- Project Management: Track projects and company initiatives to successful conclusions and clearly communicate IT systems status, priorities, and blockers to company leadership in a timely manner within budget
- Policy Development and Implementation: Develop and implement IT policies and procedures that support security, compliance, performance and reliability
- Security, Compliance & Audit Support: Develop, integrate and maintain necessary security and compliances to meet or exceed customer requirements and industry standards. Able to maintain high security standards and identify/remediate various threat vectors
- Software Development: Support DEV and PROD environments for development, versioning, tracking and roll-out
- Vendor Management: Manage vendor relationships, including periodic auditing
- System Development, Integration & Maintenance: Oversee Astrolab IT environment, both on-prem and within Azure providing direction and expertise in roll-out, integration, maintenance, security and redundancy in an environment demanding near 100% uptime with system resiliency
- User support: Ensure that Astrolab employees can efficiently and effectively perform their tasks, that IT requests are dispositioned and triaged in a timely manner, and that all systems are reliable, stable and secure
What you'll bring:
- 15+ years in IT or a related field, or a bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience
- Proven ability to manage IT functions across data, wireless communications, mobile tech, security, SaaS products, and hardware, along with network infrastructure rollouts
- Strong organizational, project management, and communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
Benefits and Perks
- Work with a team of best-in-class engineers building the foundation of planetary surface exploration
- Ownership in the company
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) with matching
- Flexible time off and parental leave
- On-site snacks, beverages, and 2x weekly lunches
- Flexible work environment
About Astrolab
Having a strong, inclusive, and inspired team is essential to accomplishing our bold mission. Employees are our biggest asset, and we are deeply committed to them and our values. At Astrolab we…
Demonstrate and inspire trust. Interactions are direct, honest, and respectful. We are fair and transparent with what we do and why.
Thrive in balance. Balance gives us perspective and keeps us motivated and inspired. We commit to rewarding work and a fulfilling personal life.
Seek diverse perspectives. We ask questions, engage in productive debate and offer alternatives to ensure our solutions and products are robust and a reflection of our collective best.
Move with purpose. Quality and reliability are accomplished through efficient ideation and iteration. We act with a sense of urgency and deliver what we promise, always with the big picture in mind.
Make an impact. We intentionally move our community and industry into the future through our work, practices, and actions.
Our Hiring Process
Stage 1:
Application Review
Stage 2:
Recruiter Phone Interview
Astrolab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and value diversity. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or veteran status. If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to careers@astrolab.space. We value diversity at Astrolab, and we strive to remove unconscious and unnecessary barriers to build the best team. While we’ve outlined what an ideal candidate could look like, we know that you may bring something unanticipated and essential to the team. If you’re reading this and can see yourself contributing, please register below.
