Director, Permitting
At Reflect, you will be expected to move fast, have a lot of ownership and, most importantly, be able to effect change. If this excites you, we are interested in hearing about your best work and accomplishments across any domain and from any points in your life.
About the Role
We’re looking for a hands-on, action-biased Director of Permitting to build Reflect Orbital’s permitting function from scratch. No one has ever needed permission to reflect sunlight onto a specific plot of land before; there’s no existing playbook, no established regulatory pathway, and no precedent to lean on. You’ll be the person who invents it: securing the rights, approvals, and relationships needed for us to operate over specific customer sites, working across the FAA, FCC, state and local authorities, landowners, and international space law as we scale from our first demonstration satellite to a constellation of thousands.
This is a foundational, high-ownership role that will directly shape how an entirely new industry gets regulated at a practical level.
Responsibilities
Own end-to-end permitting and site-operating approvals for every location where Reflect Orbital redirects sunlight, from our first customer site through nationwide s