Technical Program Manager, Strategy

Simplesense•Quinte West, ON

7h•$130,000 - $160,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Simplesense builds, deploys, and sustains the Installation Resilience Platform that enables mission operators to rapidly adapt and respond. The Platform protects critical infrastructure from cyber attack while unlocking previously siloed information to monitor, diagnose, and improve response times to incidents. Our adversaries rapidly adopt the latest technology: we help defense users respond in kind. Simplesense is a non-traditional defense contractor and prime on the Air Force's Installation Resilience Operations Command and Control (IROC) program, which is now expanding to five additional Air Force, Space Force, and Army installations from the one prototype installation, Tyndall Air Force Base. Our team combines over 100 years of direct mission experience solving hard problems with 50 years technical expertise deploying DevSecOps, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure, giving us a deep appreciation for our customers’ mission and end users’ priorities. We build for scale, architecting and prioritizing technical work for long term sustainability. As the Technical Program Manager: Strategy you will play a critical role in executing both sides of our Installation Resilience Platform strategy: go-to-market and internal clarity on complex platform initiatives. You will establish and track to completion cross-functional opportunities, funded proposals and R&D; matrixed within the Strategy Team (including Product and Sales) and partnering with the Engineering, Security, and User Success Teams you will ensure our company is poised to deliver a platform that remains resilient, secure, and ready for the mission.

Requirements

5+ years with demonstrated success in managing project and proposal delivery
Proficiency in Agile methodologies and demonstrated use of Project Management Tools: Jira, Asana, MS Project, etc.
Proficiency in Project Communications Tools: Slack, MS TEAMS, etc.
Proficiency in Project Documentation Tools: Confluence, Google Workspace, etc.
Extensive experience managing multiple concurrent interrelated projects, preferably within a scaling go-to-market environment.
You will be required to travel up to 8 times per year for site visits, current or future customer engagements and/or company meetings.
Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to obtain a DoD NIPR network account and Common Access Card (CAC)
Must have, or be able to obtain, a Secret Clearance.

Nice To Haves

Based in the Denver, CO area.
Demonstrated translation between traditional waterfall and agile models
T-shaped person (experience in many things, depth in a handful) with depth in one or more of the following is important: Project Management of Strategic development, Proposal and quote writing processes, Solution Architecture Development, Cybersecurity, outage monitoring, and incident response, Network Operations, NOC/SOC day-to-day support and operations, DevSecOps, Continuous improvement to optimize processes and procedures, Set up, configuration and operation of project management and pipeline tooling
Familiarity with small business and startup culture
Department of Defense project experience is a bonus

Responsibilities

Clearly distill strategy requirements into actionable initiatives and plans
Work directly with internal and external stakeholders to define scope
Draft initiatives and proposals given a technical outline
Support execution of any sales motion
Track underway projects to completion
Identify and manage risk for projects and initiatives across a portfolio
Work with the Staff Technical Program Manager on continuous improvement
Orchestrate program-level ceremonies for cross-team dependency resolution
Provide weekly sales pipeline forecast and customer relationship tracking updates
Represent the company, as required, to customers, partners, and contractors