Senior Program Manager

An experienced Senior Program Manager is a leader who drives success for customer inputs, supports business development, schedules, hardware, resources, and overall program progress to ensure customer satisfaction and our programmatic success. Staffing, coordination, and planning all fall under the PM team’s responsibilities. A Senior Program Manager owns execution through the product lifecycle, can excel as a technical liaison, and can bring together complex technical and operational inputs to meet program milestones. A Senior Program Manager should be comfortable with customers and will produce a level of mission assurance that makes all customers ranging from start-ups to primes comfortable.

Responsibilities:

• Drives program progress, from identification of market need through sustainment and obsolescence.
• Manages the customer relationship and is responsible for customer satisfaction. Drives regular program specific meetings with key stakeholders.
• Responsible for defining program objectives and aligning resources required to execute.
• Responsible for the program budget, schedule, and Key Results (KRs) and their performance; regularly monitors and reports on program health, including ownership of Program Review material preparation and presentation.
• Owns the schedule for the program. Responsible for pulling inputs from across the company and re-baselining as changes occur.
• Owns evaluation of technical and program risks/opportunities, drives mitigations of risk and realization of opportunities.
• Identifies and helps realize program or product opportunities to strength the business.
• Drives program technical and operational objectives, while ensuring program progress and on-time delivery.
• Serve as the primary customer point of contact (POC), manage contract scope, prepare material for and hosting regular customer check-in meetings, and lead the preparation of contract deliverables.
• Collaborates with and forms exceptional working relationships with teams to write, review, and deliver technical deliverables seamlessly.
• Support business development and capture efforts with programmatic inputs, including cost and schedule details; own applicable Gate 4s.
• Ability to engage with the senior leadership team by pushing back, providing opinions with facts, and always advocating for the improvement and risk reduction of our programs.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, Mechanical Engineering preferred
• 8-12 years’ experience of program management experience or aerospace leadership
• Must be able to perform work subject to ITAR/EAR regulations and/or program requirements
• Proven program management experience, preferably in the defense, national security, or aerospace domains
• Proven experience leading a team of peers to field integrated hardware-software products to real operating environments
• Adaptive and introspective, willing to learn, teach, lead, and follow

Preferred Experience:

• Advanced degree in a technical field
• Leadership and team building skills to include fostering collaborative and positive cultures, formal and informal influencing skills, and team empowerment and motivation expertise
• Problem solving skills and knowledge of program management tools and procedures
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to obtain Department of Defense Security Clearance

Colorado law requires us to tell you the base compensation range of this role, which is $140,000- $180,000, determined by your education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities. The salary range for this role is intentionally wide as we are evaluating individuals based on their unique experience and abilities to fit our needs. Most importantly, we are excited to meet you and see if you are a great fit for our team. What we can’t quantify for you are the exciting challenges, supportive team, and amazing culture we enjoy.