Lead Program Manager
| Company | STR |
|---|---|
| Location | Washington, DC, USA, Arlington, VA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Master’s, MBA |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Active Top Secret security clearance (including willingness to undergo polygraph process), for which U.S citizenship is needed by the U.S government
- US Defense or Intelligence Community expert with operational knowledge
- Experience in guiding technical projects to translate mission needs into production software while identifying and tracking product risk
- Aptitude for collaborating with stakeholders across a wide range of technical comfort levels
- Team player and team leader, with proven ability to motivate cross functional teams to perform at their best
- Comfortable working with data and complex analysis: both business operations tools (e.g., Excel) and our custom analytics and intelligence tools
- Demonstrated success decomposing a problem into addressable component parts
- Entrepreneurial spirit and eager to engage in technical marketing and business development
Responsibilities
- Join an active, distributed team, working across a growing set of projects
- Work ~75% time at the customer site in Washington, DC, and the rest of the time at STR’s Arlington, VA office (with flexibility to work from home)
- Engage directly with end users, build strong customer relationships, and constantly seek to apply new technology to solve real customer problems
- Empower the designers, engineers, and scientists to act with a meaningful degree of autonomy by developing and clearly communicating a unifying product vision and strategy – both STR employees and our subcontractors
- Understand all stakeholders, the constraints in which those stakeholders operate, and create customer solutions that work within the constraints of the business
- Foster team collaboration to embrace the give and take between software functionality, user experience, and enabling technology
- Continuously improve the product discovery process to establish compelling value and identify key risks
- Hold high-integrity commitments to deliver viable solutions that work for the customer and business
- Work in a fast-paced environment to enable successful contract execution, including financial planning and control, contract coordination, and subcontract coordination (in partnership with STR’s Business Operations teams)
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in a technical field or MBA
- Experience in managing a DevOps or Agile environment, preferably related to large data/analytics. Able to manage programs using SAFe
- Prior military experience with emphasis on intelligence and delivering analytic products
- Active TS/SCI security clearance with CI poly
- 2+ years experience in product program management / product ownership for an operational production software implementation, for projects 5-50 FTE
- Deep enough understanding of full-stack software technologies to consider capabilities and limitations
- Knowledge of software development best practices and tools
- Experience writing technical proposals, or leading proposal efforts
- Working knowledge of DoD or IC mission and acquisition processes