Program Manager – ASTRA Risk Manager

General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc•San Jose, CA

1d•$156,444 - $173,555•Remote

About The Position

The Portfolio Risk Program Manager reports to the Segment Director and provides portfolio-level leadership for risk and opportunity management while directly managing assigned small, discrete programs. The role strengthens execution rigor across the portfolio by identifying emerging risks early, driving mitigations to closure, and providing leadership with a clear view of cross-program threats, dependencies, and decisions. The Portfolio Risk Program Manager owns the portfolio risk-management operating rhythm. They establish and maintain consistent processes for risk identification, assessment, scoring, ownership, mitigation planning, tracking, and closure across assigned programs. They assess technical maturity, schedule performance, resource constraints, material availability, supplier performance, cost exposure, customer dependencies, security requirements, and contractual considerations to identify risks and opportunities requiring management attention. The role coordinates routine risk reviews with program managers and functional organizations, including engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, finance, contracts, security, and subcontractors. The Portfolio Risk Program Manager will maintain the integrated portfolio risk and opportunity register; analyze cross-program trends and shared dependencies; assess mitigation effectiveness; and elevate risks requiring Program Manager, customer, or executive intervention. They will ensure risk posture is accurately reflected in program plans, integrated schedules, forecasts, estimate-at-complete updates, proposal assumptions, and management reviews. In addition to portfolio risk responsibilities, the Portfolio Risk Program Manager will directly manage smaller, discrete programs and special projects. They will maintain execution plans and integrated schedules; track milestones, dependencies, staffing, material status, technical readiness, cost, and deliverables; and lead cross-functional working sessions to drive actions to closure. They will monitor cost and schedule performance, support earned-value inputs and variance explanations as applicable, and develop recovery actions before impacts become critical. For internal and customer-facing reviews, the Portfolio Risk Program Manager will prepare and coordinate portfolio risk summaries, program status materials, mitigation plans, action logs, decision records, milestone-readiness packages, and follow-up communications. They will support design reviews, program reviews, customer meetings, contract deliverables, production-readiness events, and deliveries by ensuring clear ownership, risk-informed decisions, and closure criteria. The role will also support proposal activity, follow-on efforts, and contract changes by incorporating current program performance, risk posture, technical maturity, material lead times, staffing needs, and execution lessons learned into proposal schedules, basis-of-estimate inputs, risk registers, and management plans. The Portfolio Risk Program Manager will have authority to lead risk and execution working sessions, assign and track routine actions, request status from functional organizations, recommend mitigation and recovery actions, and elevate unresolved cross-program risks. The Program Manager retains responsibility for overall portfolio accountability, contractual and baseline decisions, major customer commitments, significant resource conflicts, and executive escalation.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with a minimum of 8 years relevant experience; or Master's degree with a minimum of 6 years relevant experience.
Department of Defense TS security clearance is required at time of hire.
Candidates must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance within a reasonable amount of time from date of hire.
Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
U.S. citizenship is required.
Demonstrated experience managing program risks, schedules, dependencies, and cross-functional execution.
Experience developing and maintaining risk and opportunity registers, mitigation plans, and executive risk reporting.
Working knowledge of program controls, earned value management, cost and schedule performance, and integrated master schedules.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present concise risk and decision information to customers and senior leadership.
Ability to manage multiple priorities across a portfolio while directly leading assigned programs or special projects.

Nice To Haves

Proven program management experience with high-reliability spaceflight hardware for National Security Space.
Strong foundation in Earned Value Management and structured risk management.
Leadership in RF payload development and production.
Mission focus, with willingness to learn our customer’s mission and advocate for our solutions in mission terms using the customer’s vocabulary.
Experience in resolving schedule challenges and implementing contingency plans, as well as overseeing recovery from build/test issues.
Experience managing scope control on complex development/production contracts, including fixed-price contracts.
Interest in overseeing programs with a strong component of technology maturation and technology risk management, and willingness to learn the related RF technology fundamentals.
Comfortable managing a portfolio that evolves over time; at times, you may be responsible for one large program or multiple smaller technology development programs.
Ability to work collaboratively with highly experienced engineers and architects to solve technical and programmatic challenges, including design-to-cost and design-to-schedule.
Identifies opportunities to apply AI for continuous improvement and innovation.

Responsibilities

Provides portfolio-level leadership for risk and opportunity management.
Directly manages assigned small, discrete programs and special projects.
Establishes and maintains consistent processes for risk identification, assessment, scoring, ownership, mitigation planning, tracking, and closure.
Assesses technical maturity, schedule performance, resource constraints, material availability, supplier performance, cost exposure, customer dependencies, security requirements, and contractual considerations.
Coordinates routine risk reviews with program managers and functional organizations.
Maintains the integrated portfolio risk and opportunity register.
Analyzes cross-program trends and shared dependencies.
Assesses mitigation effectiveness.
Elevates risks requiring Program Manager, customer, or executive intervention.
Ensures risk posture is accurately reflected in program plans, integrated schedules, forecasts, estimate-at-complete updates, proposal assumptions, and management reviews.
Maintains execution plans and integrated schedules for assigned programs/projects.
Tracks milestones, dependencies, staffing, material status, technical readiness, cost, and deliverables.
Leads cross-functional working sessions to drive actions to closure.
Monitors cost and schedule performance, supports earned-value inputs and variance explanations.
Develops recovery actions before impacts become critical.
Prepares and coordinates portfolio risk summaries, program status materials, mitigation plans, action logs, decision records, milestone-readiness packages, and follow-up communications for reviews.
Supports design reviews, program reviews, customer meetings, contract deliverables, production-readiness events, and deliveries.
Supports proposal activity, follow-on efforts, and contract changes by incorporating program performance, risk posture, and other factors into proposal documents.
Has authority to lead risk and execution working sessions, assign and track routine actions, request status, recommend mitigation/recovery actions, and elevate unresolved cross-program risks.