Deputy Technical Program Manager

What you'll do

• Manage the portfolio dashboard, risk register, operating cadence, status reporting, planning artifacts, and financial hygiene.
• Coordinate dependencies, accreditation milestones, stakeholders, customer commitments, and cross-functional execution across countries and technical domains.
• Maintain program documentation and support hiring, onboarding, access tracking, organizational planning, and budget tracking.

What they ask for

• 6+ years in technical program management, systems engineering, engineering operations, or a comparable role in defense, national security, or another highly regulated technical environment.
• Track record managing schedules, risks, and dependencies for complex programs; experience executing across distributed teams in multiple countries or time zones.
• Direct experience coordinating with government, military, or regulatory stakeholders; strong written communication and ability to hold broad technical context.
• Active US clearance required; eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance; willingness to travel roughly 20%.

Nice to have

• TS/SCI preferred; experience with classified networks, sovereign or air-gapped cloud, accreditation frameworks, or coalition programs.
• Experience with Jira-driven work breakdown structures, budget rollups, charge codes, or maritime, expeditionary, or autonomous systems.

Pay

$113,000 — $149,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

Jira, COMSEC, Type 1 encryption, cross-domain solutions, identity federation, policy-as-code, Slack, Lattice