SpaceX org chart template

SpaceX org chart at a glance

The chart describes SpaceX as of August 2026.

• Chief executive: Elon Musk, also Chief Technology Officer and Chairman.
• President and COO: Gwynne Shotwell.
• Headquarters: Starbase, Texas.
• Employees: about 22,000 (SpaceX-only estimate, before the xAI merger).
• Revenue: $18.7 billion consolidated (fiscal 2025).
• On the chart: 17 people in four levels, grouped by Falcon and Dragon, production, Starship, engineering, Starlink, AI and corporate.

Who reports to Elon Musk

SpaceX has disclosed only two reporting lines into its chief executive. Most of the company runs through Gwynne Shotwell.

• Gwynne Shotwell: President and Chief Operating Officer. The programme leaders report to her: Jon Edwards (Senior Vice President, Falcon and Dragon), with Kiko Dontchev (Vice President, Launch) under him; Derek Turner (Vice President, Production); Bill Riley (Vice President, Starship Engineering), with Joe Petrzelka (Booster) and Jacob McKenzie (Raptor) under him; Phil Alden (Vice President, Starship Production); Mark Juncosa (Vice President, Vehicle Engineering), with Charles Kuehmann (Materials Engineering) under him; William Gerstenmaier (Vice President, Build and Flight Reliability); Jonathan Hofeller (Vice President, Starlink Commercial Sales); Michael Nicolls (President, SpaceXAI); Brian Bjelde (Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Operations); and Tim Hughes (Senior Vice President, Global Business and Government Affairs).
• Bret Johnsen: Chief Financial Officer.

How SpaceX is organized, in brief

The top of SpaceX is a two-person split. Elon Musk keeps engineering direction and vehicle architecture, and also holds the CTO title and the board chair. Gwynne Shotwell runs the operating company: launch cadence, contracts and customer delivery.

QueryChart, the platform OrgTree.app is built on, has the full analysis: how SpaceX's structure works, why it is set up that way, its trade-offs, and the sources behind every line.

• SpaceX organizational structure: the full analysis on QueryChart

Use the SpaceX org chart as a template

Most people open a company chart to borrow its shape, not its names. Duplicate the chart above and it opens in the editor as a people sheet: one row per person, with a name, a title, a department and who they report to.

Rename the people to your own team, delete the branches you do not need, and add rows for open roles you plan to hire. Change someone's Reports To cell and their whole branch moves with them; change a department and the colours follow. The layout redraws itself as you type.

What to borrow from SpaceX's structure:

• If your founder leads technology and someone else runs operations, draw both clearly so people know who decides what.
• Organize engineering around products or systems when each one needs an owner from design to launch.
• A wide, shallow layer of programme leads keeps decisions close to the work; check the span of the person they report to.
• When you merge in another company, give it a clear leader and a single line into the existing chart, as SpaceX did with SpaceXAI.

Sources and accuracy

This chart is assembled from SpaceX's investor-relations pages, its 2026 Form S-1 and press reporting, as of August 2026. Only the lines from Elon Musk to Gwynne Shotwell and Bret Johnsen are documented; the vice-president layer is drawn from reported titles and its reporting lines are inferred. The board is not shown.

OrgTree.app is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by SpaceX. All trademarks belong to their owners.

• SpaceX Investor Relations: Leadership and board
• SEC EDGAR: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Form S-1 (2026)
• Fortune: Meet the SpaceX insiders Elon Musk trusts to run his empire (June 2026)
• SpaceX organizational structure: the full analysis on QueryChart

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