Staff/Senior Staff Technical Program Manager

Role Description

As a Staff/Senior Staff Technical Program Manager at Trase, you will own technical program execution dedicated to Red Cell Federal (RCF) and Red Cell Partners (RCP) incubations and portfolio companies. You will join Trase's dedicated RCF/RCP support team, with a strong focus on federal, government, and national security programs.

This role helps RCF and other RCP partner companies adopt and operate Trase OS in their own environments. You will turn partner requirements into secure, reliable deployments and sustained operational support.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will drive decisions, resolve dependencies, and hold delivery commitments accountable from initial request through validated customer acceptance.

Scope of Responsibilities

Own RCF/RCP program delivery: translate ambiguous requests into scoped user stories, acceptance criteria, owners, dependencies, and small, testable milestones.

Establish a single intake and prioritized backlog with Product and RCF/RCP counterparts.

Drive secure deployment readiness across customer-managed cloud, private-network, and on-premises environments.

Partner with GRC and security owners to incorporate applicable RMF/ATO, STIG, and impact-level requirements into delivery plans.

Coordinate release and image handoffs, including versioning, compatibility, vulnerability scan results, software bills of materials, release manifests, deployment guides, and rollback readiness.

Drive ongoing support for federal deployments, including Second Front where applicable.

Coordinate partner issue triage and technical escalations across the dedicated team and shared platform teams.

Build repeatable onboarding and operational handoffs through runbooks, architecture and data-flow documentation, training, and knowledge transfer.

Run planning, grooming, delivery reviews, and risk escalation.

Staff / Sr. Staff Expectations

Staff: independently lead complex RCF/RCP programs across engineering, security, operations, and partner teams.

Senior Staff: lead a portfolio of interdependent RCF/RCP programs; shape the engagement and delivery model.

Qualifications

U.S. citizenship is required.

Ability and willingness to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.

8–10+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering, or related technical delivery roles.

Track record of delivering complex software, infrastructure, or platform programs to external customers.

Strong technical judgment and experience leading cross-team execution.

Clear written and verbal communication with engineers, security specialists, partner teams, and executives.

Technical Depth

Understand distributed systems, APIs, agent workflows, and integration boundaries.

Experience with cloud and/or on-premises deployments, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, networking, identity/access, and secrets management.

Working familiarity with secure software delivery, vulnerability remediation, audit logging, observability, and operational readiness.

Ability to translate security and compliance requirements into engineering deliverables.

Strongly Preferred

Prior TPM experience supporting national security, defense, federal agencies, or other government programs.

An active U.S. government security clearance.

Experience navigating RMF/ATO processes, STIG hardening, POA&M remediation tracking.

Experience with Second Front or comparable federal deployment platforms.

Experience supporting AI/ML platforms, agent integrations, or developer tools across multiple partner organizations.

Working Style

High ownership, sound judgment, and proactive follow-through.

Comfortable moving between technical detail and executive decisions.

Practical, collaborative, and focused on customer outcomes and repeatable delivery.

Salary Range

$220,000-260,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.

Benefits

Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance.

100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.

Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.

Unlimited PTO, with management approval.

Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.

Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.

Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind.