Technical Program Manager - Networking

RTX • Watertown, MA

29d • Onsite

About The Position

For over 70 years, RTX BBN Technologies has solved real-world problems through research, exploration, development, and prototyping. We collaborate with top technical talent to pioneer transformative solutions. BBN’s Network & Cyber Technologies (NCT) team leverages math, engineering, and physics to tackle customer challenges in network and communications, EW, and cyber domains. We specialize in information exchange, protection, and exploitation. This is a position for candidates with research and development (R&D) program management experience. In this role, you will provide key program management and pursuit support enabling NCT technical staff to win and deliver innovative solutions to customers in the Networking domain. For pursuit activities, you will work directly with our tech director to meet with customers, pursue new applied research concepts, and develop winning proposals as the capture manager. As the program manager for new awards, you will work collaboratively with our principal investigators (PI) to help coordinate resources, track progress, facilitate collaboration, and ensure on-time delivery within budget. Your leadership and organizational skills will empower our engineers and scientists to push boundaries and meet critical customer needs.

Requirements

• Active Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field with 10 years of experience, or an advanced degree with 7 years experience
• Experience shaping, pursuing, and capturing new opportunities through customer interactions and proposal development.
• Experience executing program management practices on Government-funded R&D contracts.
• Experience planning, staffing, and tracking multi-person projects
• Must have experience contributing to strategic IRAD project development and investments
• Resourceful problem-solver able to spot issues, communicate risks, and take action to solve problems
• Collaborative team player passionate about technology
• Proficiency with MS Office, MS Project, and financial tracking in Excel
• Proficiency with collaboration tools such as Confluence and Teams
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Position may require some amount of overnight travel
• U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position needs an active U.S. Security Clearance as of day one of employment.

Nice To Haves

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills
• Initiates, prioritizes, and manages multiple tasks and programs effectively
• Prior experience managing subcontractors
• Eager learner focused on continuous PM skills development
• Skilled at project scheduling, reporting, and stakeholder management
• Experience in research and development of Networking and Comms, EW, or Cyber capabilities
• Interest in the pursuit and capture process for competitive proposals for Government funding
• Active Secret security clearance

Responsibilities

• Manage the pre-proposal pursuit process across multiple early-concept opportunities with various government R&D customers.
• Lead capture on proposal responses to BAAs and RFPs to include managing the capture, coordinating with subcontractors, collaborating with the technical team to write the technical volume, working with internal contracts and finance teams to produce the cost volume.
• Coordinate extensively across technical and functional support staff to enable on-time, on-budget delivery
• Translate and track customer needs, and advise technical experts and senior leaders on optimal solutions
• Monitor spending, staffing, schedules, contracts, purchases, and deliverables
• Manage schedules, resources, and budgets to ensure execution within cost targets
• Identify, track, and escalate program risks and issues for mitigation
• Facilitate collaboration through clear communication and information sharing
• Employ PM best practices and tools to maintain alignment across complex projects
• Deliver regular project updates and insights to stakeholders and leadership
• Lead review meetings, inform decision making, and coordinate across project interdependencies
• Drive achievement of milestones through resource planning and progress tracking

Benefits

• Whether you’re just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a robust total rewards package with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement, and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs. Some of the benefits we offer include parental (including paternal) leave, flexible work schedules, achievement awards, educational assistance and child/adult backup care.
• Relocation Assistance available
• This position is Onsite at our Cambridge, Mass headquarters
• To help you achieve your goals, BBN will provide: A strong leadership team well-versed in government R&D. A collaborative and collegial environment to push state-of-the-art research. Technically competent pool of research scientists who are willing to mentor, listen, and help you refine your research vision and goals. Business development, programmatic, contracting, finance, and HR support. Access, through RTX, to opportunities that help transition your research and ultimately see it fielded.
• Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.
• Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees