Regulatory Policy Associate (Summer 2024)

Associate programs at Astranis typically last for twelve weeks, and are hourly roles designed for students who are currently enrolled at a four-year university. As an Associate, you will have an amazing opportunity to work on hard problems — we pride ourselves on giving everyone at Astranis a chance to do meaningful work on challenging projects, no matter their seniority. Many past interns have designed and tested hardware/software that is heading to space on our first satellite, and many of them are now full-time employees at Astranis. If you have not already graduated from a four-year university, please apply to our internship program.

As a Regulatory Policy Associate at Astranis, you will work with every member of the regulatory team to help craft and execute our plan to license dozens of satellites and associated spectrum in the coming years. You’ll also work closely with our commercial, ground stations, and engineering teams to understand the service we’re delivering to customers, how our satellites will connect the world, and how different regulatory regimes impact that. This associate program is designed for individuals with experience in telecommunications, operational planning, and policy analysis.

Role:

• Working with commercial and network planning teams, apply spectrum policy knowledge to market analysis to determine spectrum resource planning
• Support the commercial and network planning teams, matching customer needs to spectrum resources
• Create visual and written reports, databases, summaries, and action plans to monitor global spectrum utilization and trends; gather and analyze the underlying data
• Draw conclusions from analyzed data and recommend associated actions to the Regulatory Team Lead
• Draft and submit spectrum authorization requests and licensing documents to telecommunications and space regulators throughout the world
• Research international and national telecommunications regulations

Requirements:

• Can informally influence others, such as managing projects which require work from other teams
• Takes responsibility for projects, independently drives them forward, and
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Demonstrated ability to attain deep knowledge in a new field of study or practice
• Excellent written and good spoken communication skills
• Ability to communicate complex concepts to unfamiliar and less familiar audiences
• Attention to detail

Bonus:

• Proficiency in International Telecommunications Union (ITU) software suite
• Past experience in telecommunications services planning and operations
• Proficiency in visualization software
• Experience with data scraping tools