Staff Program Manager, Leadership Development

At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.

Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.

About the Team: 

The People team is a core enabler of the business, with a true seat at the table and broad visibility across the company. From compensation and benefits to performance and onboarding, the team takes a comprehensive approach to supporting employees and leaders alike. We embed ourselves into departments, understanding needs and shaping the foundational strategies that will help individuals thrive as the company scales. Every challenge is an opportunity to solve for what really matters, with agility, empathy, and creativity

About the Role:

Relativity is on a mission to change the way rockets are built and flown, expanding the possibilities for human experience. To do that, we’ll need to create development experiences that expand the possibilities of our own people. We’re looking for a Staff Program Manager to refine and scale our People Leadership Development programs. This person will report to the Head of Talent Development and will be on-site at our Long Beach, CA, HQ.

What You’ll Do:

• Program Management: Lead the implementation, execution, and analysis of all people leader experiences and programs, including program design & management, training design & facilitation, vendor management, survey design & analysis, and internal marketing & communications.
• Drive Leadership Development Strategy: Partner with the Head of Talent Development to refine and execute our People Leadership Development strategy.
• Own People Leadership Learning Journey: Create a clear and cohesive people leader journey, starting with first-time managers, that provides relevant, ongoing, and impactful learning experiences to Relativity Space’s People Leaders.
• Assessment Administration: Identify, implement, and administer individual and team assessments that people leaders can use to understand strengths and development opportunities for themselves and their team(s).
• Collaboration: Partner with DEI, Talent Acquisition, People Ops, and our People Business Partners to ensure our people leader programs integrate and align across the business.
• Effective and Actionable Reporting: At the program level: Identify and leverage quantitative and qualitative data to continuously improve our people leader programs; at the personal level: Provide ongoing feedback and coaching to people leaders based on assessment and survey reporting.
• Elevate People Leadership at Relativity: Track emerging people development technologies, trends, and best practices, and identify opportunities to leverage them with our team.

About You:

In previous experiences, you’ve built and managed people leader programs. You’re comfortable in all aspects of program management, from conducting needs analysis and designing program experiences to implementing large-scale programs and analyzing the impact/results. You have a strong understanding of what it takes to be an exceptional people leader and can effectively develop and coach others on what it takes to get there. You are strategic in how you design and implement development programs, balancing the needs of the learner with the demands of the business. You’re a strong collaborator and