Deputy General Manager, Agentic AI

Red Cell Partners • McLean, VA

4d • $150,000 - $200,000 • Remote

About The Position

The Deputy General Manager, Agentic AI works alongside the General Manager to explore use cases, advance promising opportunities, and execute priority projects across RC Federal’s Agentic AI business. The portfolio consists of licensed products built on Trase OS and developed via Arena and the SDK—not Trase itself, but products built, licensed, and sold on top of it.

This hands-on role suits a versatile professional who can bring structure to ambiguous problems and drive outcomes across technical, commercial, and operational teams. The role may involve investigating mission needs, shaping potential solutions, coordinating pilots, and addressing delivery challenges. Scope is defined with the GM and may vary by project. The Deputy General Manager owns some initiatives, executes others on the GM’s behalf, and transitions work to strategy, sales, product, engineering, or delivery teams when appropriate. The GM retains overall accountability for the business and its operating P&L.

Red Cell Federal is Red Cell Partners’ public-sector growth company, building AI-powered, mission-ready capabilities for the U.S. government. The company is remote-first, with occasional travel centered on high-leverage moments with clients or the team.

Requirements

• At least 3 to 5 years of relevant experience across operations, strategy, consulting, product or program management, technology deployment, or a combination of these areas.
• Bachelor’s degree in an applicable area, such as computer sciences, information technology, or political science.
• At least 1 year working in government directly, as a civilian or active-duty service member, or indirectly through a consulting firm.
• Ability to take an ambiguous problem, rapidly develop a practical approach, and drive work through to completion with a varied team.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional projects and influencing contributors without formal authority.
• Strong analytical, writing, and communication skills, including the ability to translate complex information into quantified recommendations and actions.
• Working fluency in AI and software-enabled solutions, with the ability to engage technical teams and connect capabilities to users; this is not a software engineering role, but close collaboration with technical teams is required.
• Sound judgment about when to act independently, seek a decision, or transition work to another owner.
• Hands-on, adaptable approach and willingness to move between research, planning, coordination, and execution.
• U.S. government Secret clearance or higher.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with federal customers, national security missions, or government technology adoption and acquisition.

Responsibilities

• Investigate government mission needs and workflows to identify practical applications for agentic AI.
• Develop broad ideas into problem statements, use-case briefs, and proposed next steps, including assumptions, dependencies, and open questions.
• Work with product and engineering teams to assess feasibility and determine what is needed to test concepts.
• Gather evidence and quantify potential impact to help the GM decide whether to advance, refine, hand off, or stop ideas.
• Work with strategy to identify potential customers, validate demand, and assess where emerging use cases could gain traction.
• Coordinate with sales, product, engineering, and delivery teams to connect mission needs with execution; support proposals and other capture activities as needed.
• Prepare handoffs that capture the problem, completed work, supporting evidence, unresolved questions, and recommended next steps.
• Establish clear ownership during transitions and remain involved as needed to maintain momentum or troubleshoot through delivery.
• Own defined projects or workstreams with objectives, decision authority, and deliverables agreed with the GM.
• Build work plans, coordinate contributors, track milestones, and surface risks or decisions early.
• Support pilots, prototypes, and customer engagements, including preparation, follow-through, and coordination of next steps.
• Step directly into execution when that is the fastest way to deliver a result.
• Prepare concise analyses, decision briefs, and status updates for the GM and other senior stakeholders.
• Track project progress, resource needs, costs, and outcomes to support prioritization and business decisions.
• Translate lessons from projects into reusable approaches where useful.
• Take on special projects across Agentic AI and broader RC Federal priorities as needed.

Benefits

• Career-track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows.
• 100% employer-paid comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for the employee and family.
• Paid maternity and paternity leave for 14 weeks at employees’ normal pay.
• Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
• Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
• Optional 401(k), FSA, and equity incentives.
• Mental health benefits through Tara Mind.
• Cost-effective GLP-1 solutions through Crux.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager