ITA Program Manager - Remote

Overview

We are looking for a leader who is passionate about collaborating with high-performance teams to solve unique national security challenges with novel technologies. An ITA Program Manager is accountable for the ultimate success of the product and is responsible for ensuring that what is developed and delivered to customers is operationally valuable.

In Short

• 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.
• 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.
• Understand all stakeholders 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.

Requirements

• Active Top Secret security clearance (including willingness to undergo polygraph process).
• US Defense or Intelligence Community expert with operational knowledge.
• Experience in guiding technical projects to translate mission needs into production software.
• 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.
• Comfortable working with data and complex analysis.
• Demonstrated success decomposing a problem into addressable component parts.
• Entrepreneurial spirit and eager to engage in technical marketing and business development.

Benefits

• Flexible, hybrid work environment.
• Collaborative learning environment that supports deep technical understanding.
• Opportunity to work on challenging national security problems.
• Contribute to making the world safer through advanced technology.