Technical Program Manager

Predictable Execution: You maintain clear, end-to-end visibility into engineering commitments, dependencies, and program health, ensuring on-time delivery across complex technical initiatives.

Unified Alignment: You successfully align cross-functional engineering, product, and program leadership, driving decisions and execution without direct authority.

Optimized Capacity: You effectively balance competing demands from field teams, customers, and internal stakeholders with engineering capacity and resource constraints.

Operational Excellence: You establish seamless feedback loops and scaled processes that continuously improve internal engineering tooling, reporting, and operational efficiency.

Experience: 4+ years of experience in technical program coordination, engineering operations, project/program management, or a closely related role within cross-functional technical environments.

Program Management Mastery: Strong track record in milestone tracking, dependency management, risk mitigation, resource/capacity planning, and cross-team facilitation.

Stakeholder & Authority Management: Proven ability to translate customer/program needs into technical plans, communicate engineering constraints clearly, and drive alignment across teams without direct authority.

Tooling Proficiency: Hands-on experience with Jira, Confluence, and other modern program planning, reporting, and collaboration tools.

Adaptability & User Empathy: Highly organized and comfortable navigating ambiguity, with demonstrated empathy for end-users to effectively integrate feedback into engineering decisions.

Complex Engineering Environments: Experience working with integrated hardware and software systems, aerospace, defense, or other highly complex technical environments.

Government Programs: Experience delivering software or hardware in support of U.S.

Government-funded programs.

Security & Citizenship: Active Secret clearance or the ability to obtain a U.S.

Government security clearance.

• Base Salary: $140,000 - $175,000

Bonus program and equity in a fast-growing startup

Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their families

Health Savings Account with annual employer contributions

Uncapped paid time off policy

Flexible work & remote work policy

Tax-deferred public transit benefits with Metro SmartBenefits (DC/MD/VA)

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