Manager, Business Systems

About this role

Location: This position can work onsite or hybrid from one of our offices or fully remote in the US.
Travel: Up to 5%

About Capella

Capella, an IonQ company, spans national security, advanced sensing, and next-generation compute to deliver secure, mission-ready intelligence. Capella’s culture is built on collaboration, rigorous engineering, and a shared commitment to delivering solutions that strengthen global stability and security. Team members work side-byside with some of the most innovative minds in space systems, quantum-enabled technologies, and mission-critical operations.

Capella values curiosity, resilience, and a willingness to tackle hard problems with precision and creativity. Capella welcomes and encourages applicants whose perspectives are historically underrepresented in technology, national security, and aerospace. No prior space experience is required. Diverse viewpoints strengthen Capella’s ability to innovate and deliver meaningful impact for partners worldwide.

The Role

As the Manager of Business Systems at Capella, you will lead the strategy, optimization, and evolution of critical enterprise and manufacturing systems supporting a fast-growing aerospace technology organization. In this role, you will operate as both a Business Systems leader and Product Owner, driving initiatives focused on ERP platforms, enterprise integrations, operational workflows, and systems modernization across the organization.

You will partner closely with Manufacturing, Operations, Engineering, Finance, IT, and external vendors to improve how business systems and operational data interact across the enterprise. This role will support new systems implementations, integrations, workflow redesign initiatives, and future-state systems architecture efforts tied to the ongoing Console and data lake redesign.

The ideal candidate brings strong business process analysis capabilities, experience gathering and defining requirements, and the ability to bridge business stakeholders with technical teams to drive scalable operational solutions and improved systems interoperability.

This is a fully remote role with occasional travel requirements based on project and vendor needs.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Product Owner and systems owner for critical enterprise and manufacturing platforms.

• Lead business requirements gathering efforts for new systems implementations, integrations, and workflow redesign initiatives.

• Partner cross-functionally with Manufacturing, Finance, Operations, Engineering, IT, and external vendors to align systems strategy with business needs.

• Support and improve integrations across ERP, CRM, finance, manufacturing, inventory, and operational systems.

• Support business workflows related to Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, and operational data management.

• Help model and optimize future-state business workflows and enterprise systems interoperability.

• Translate operational and business requirements into actionable delivery plans and technical solutions.

• Support enterprise systems modernization, Console redesign, and continuous process improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

• 7+ years of experience in Business Systems, ERP systems, Enterprise Applications, or Business Analysis roles.

• Experience operating as a Product Owner, Business Systems Manager, Senior Business Systems Analyst, or Enterprise Applications lead.

• Strong understanding of enterprise business processes across finance, manufacturing, operations, and systems integrations.

• Experience supporting workflows related to Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, and operational systems.

• Experience gathering business and technical requirements and translating them into scalable systems solutions.

• Ability to bridge business stakeholders and technical teams to improve operational efficiency and systems interoperability.

• Strong communication, organizational, and stakeholder…