Production Leader / Senior Production Manager

Xona is the navigational intelligence company bringing real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth.

With Pulsar – the world’s most advanced PNT satellite infrastructure in Low Earth Orbit – Xona will offer a future-proof, backwards-compatible global positioning system optimized for absolute precision, superior power, and robust protection.

Overview
We’re looking for an experienced Production Leader to manage the satellite manufacturing production team.

You will lead the day-to-day manufacturing operations within the Satellite Assembly, Integration & Test (AIT) facility in Burlingame, CA.

This high-impact leadership role ensures safe, predictable, high-quality, and on-time execution of production activities while continuously improving operational efficiency, throughput, and production scale readiness.

The role manages production planning, shop floor leadership, production technicians, and equipment and facilities maintenance. The production leader will partner closely with Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality Assurance, Program Management, and Engineering.

What You’ll Do:

- Manage the production team responsible for safe, high quality, on-time, scaled production of the Xona satellite at the Burlingame facility.

- Manage the overall production processes and activities; production work order planning, shift staffing, shift hand-over communications, operational KPI tracking and production facility efficiency.

- As an experienced manager of a scaled production operation, the production leader will lead, coach and develop a highly effective production team and maintain high standards of safety, accountability and performance.

- Demonstrate high levels of autonomy and cross-team collaboration to deliver on the production ramp-up targets. Support the maturation and continuous improvement of the production system, while aggressively driving down the cost learning curve.

- Assume full ownership of achieving the m...