Compliance Manager

<div class="content-intro"><p>AST SpaceMobile is building the first and only global cellular broadband network in space to operate directly with standard, unmodified mobile devices based on our extensive IP and patent portfolio and designed for both commercial and government applications. Our engineers and space scientists are on a mission to eliminate the connectivity gaps faced by today’s five billion mobile subscribers and finally bring broadband to the billions who remain unconnected.</p></div><p><strong>Position Summary</strong></p> <p>We are a fast-growing, multi-site aerospace company preparing for our first compliance program. We are seeking an experienced Compliance Manager to design, build, and lead the implementation of a unified Quality Management System (QMS) across all company locations. This is a foundational, high-visibility role: you will be the architect of our certification strategy, responsible for harmonizing site-specific practices into one cohesive, audit-ready quality system and guiding the organization through initial compliance program.</p> <p>This role is ideal for someone who has taken an organization through AS9100 certification before (or has led major QMS builds in a regulated manufacturing environment) and wants ownership over shaping quality culture from the ground up, rather than maintaining an already-mature system.</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p> <p><em>QMS Design & Certification Strategy</em></p> <ul> <li>Lead the end-to-end effort to bring the company to a high level of compliance to corporate process and procedures.</li> <li>Design a single, unified Quality Management System that can be consistently deployed and audited across all company sites.</li> <li>Develop the certification roadmap, timeline, and readiness milestones, and report progress to executive leadership.</li> <li>Conduct a gap analysis against AS9100/ISO 9001 requirements at each site and prioritize remediation efforts and see where it makes sense to align to an international body and where to not.</li> </ul> <p><em>Multi-Site Standardization</em></p> <ul> <li>Work with the Quality organization to reconcile differing site-level processes, documentation, and quality practices into common, controlled procedures.</li> <li>Establish standardized document control, forms, work instructions, and record-keeping practices company-wide.</li> <li>Partner with site leaders and operations teams to ensure new procedures are practical and adopted, not just written.</li> <li>Audit & Continuous Improvement</li> <li>Plan and lead internal audits across all sites; track findings through corrective and preventive action (CAPA) to closure.</li> <li>Serve as primary point of contact for the external certification body during stage 1/stage 2 audits and surveillance audits.</li> <li>Own the nonconformance and CAPA process, driving root-cause analysis and effectiveness verification around compliance issues</li> </ul> <p><em>Training & Culture</em></p> <ul> <li>Develop and deliver Compliance/QMS training so employees at every site understand and follow new procedures.</li> <li>Build a company-wide culture of quality and compliance, not just a paper system for audit purposes.</li> <li>Act as internal subject-matter expert on aerospace quality requirements.</li> </ul> <p><em>Supplier & Customer Quality</em></p> <ul> <li>Support supplier quality requirements and flow-down of AS9100 requirements to key suppliers.</li> <li>Assist with customer quality audits and represent the company's quality program to custom