Technical Program Manager, Strategy

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.

Technical Program Manager: Strategy

Location: Hybrid (Onsite Remote) w/travel

About the Role:

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.

Work Model: We prioritize candidates in the Denver, CO area, but are open to remote talent.

Locals: 2-4 days/month onsite.

Remote: Up to 8 x 1-week trips for company, team or customer meetings.

What Success Looks Like:

30 Days: Onboard the company and begin to understand our processes

60 Days: Understand strategic scope, workflow, and make suggestions

90 Days: Assume responsibility for delivering your strategic program

What You’ll Do:

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

What You Bring

Required Qualifications:

Experience: 5+ years with demonstrated success in managing project and proposal delivery

Technical Skills: Proficiency in Agile methodologies and demonstrated use of

Project Management Tools: Jira, Asana, MS Project, etc.

Project Communications Tools: Slack, MS TEAMS, etc.

Project Documentation Tools: Confluence, Google Workspace, etc.

Domain Knowledge: Extensive experience managing multiple concurrent interrelated projects, preferably within a scaling go-to-market environment.

Travel: 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

Our Culture

At Simplesense, we value high-trust autonomy. We look for people who can navigate ambiguity and are driven by the mission.

Safety Innovation: You embed security and reliability practices into daily work to drive continuous improvement and mitigate risk.

People Communication: You invite vigorous debate and offer "kindly blunt" feedback, always maintaining empathy and assuming noble intent.

Integrity Ethics: You build trust by honoring commitments, acting ethically, and resolving conflict through direct, honest communication.

Strategic Problem Solving…