Senior Technical Program Manager

Chainguard

2d • $153,000 - $180,000 • Remote

About The Position

Chainguard is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to bring structure and visibility to its security organization. This role will operate horizontally across Product Security, Cyber Resiliency, and Governance & Trust, partnering with these teams while also coordinating priorities, dependencies, and execution across the broader security organization. The impact of this role extends beyond security, as it will build systems, processes, and relationships to enable effective collaboration across engineering, product, legal, finance, sales, and marketing. This is a senior, strategic role with significant growth potential, where the individual will help create the playbook, establish processes, dashboards, and prioritization mechanisms to enhance the security organization's clarity and leverage, with the aim of expanding this impact into broader company-wide programs and operating processes.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in program management, technical program management, or operations roles
• Meaningful experience in a broad, cross-functional operations or program management role, supporting many stakeholders across an organization rather than working within a single, self-contained team.
• Ability to operate effectively in a horizontal role with a large and diverse stakeholder group.
• A track record of building processes and exercising sound judgment in ambiguous environments, rather than defaulting to standard frameworks or playbooks.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to act as a strategic and consultative partner across functions.
• Experience managing competing priorities and communicating trade-offs, including difficult prioritization decisions, clearly and thoughtfully.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving, scaling environment where processes are still being built and refined.

Nice To Haves

• Security experience is a plus, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Own workflow, project tracking, and dependency management across the three security teams, making it clear what’s on track, what’s at risk, and what downstream impact changes may have.
• Build and maintain dashboards and reporting that give company leadership a clear, durable view of security risk, exposure, and program health.
• Partner closely with your primary security team on day-to-day execution while supporting the other two teams as priorities and capacity allow.
• Make and communicate prioritization decisions when demand exceeds the security organization’s capacity — including finding alternatives and helping stakeholders understand trade-offs, rather than simply saying no.
• Design and implement lightweight processes that help security teams operate more effectively without creating unnecessary overhead for engineers.
• Work directly with product, engineering, and other partner teams to establish clear, effective ways of working with security.
• As the role grows, extend your impact beyond security by helping shape broader company processes, including how Chainguard approaches planning, prioritization, and cross-functional execution.

Benefits

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
• Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options.
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
• Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed