Staff/Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Federal

The role

You will own technical program execution for Red Cell Federal and Red Cell Partners incubations and portfolio companies. You will drive partner onboarding, integrations, and secure deployments for federal, government, and national security programs.

What you will do

• Translate ambiguous requests into scoped user stories, acceptance criteria, and milestones.
• Establish a single intake and prioritized backlog with Product and RCF/RCP counterparts.
• Drive secure deployment readiness across cloud, private-network, and on-premises environments.
• Partner with GRC and security owners to incorporate RMF/ATO, STIG, and impact-level requirements.
• Coordinate release and image handoffs including versioning and vulnerability scan results.
• Drive ongoing support for federal deployments including patching, hardening, and upgrades.
• Coordinate partner issue triage and technical escalations.
• Build repeatable onboarding and operational handoffs through runbooks and documentation.
• Run planning, grooming, delivery reviews, and risk escalation.
• Provide technical and executive stakeholders visibility into commitments and dependencies.

Required 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.
• Experience leading cross-team execution, prioritization, risk management, and customer-facing escalations.
• Understanding of 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.

Nice to have

• 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, or DoD IL4/IL5/IL6 environments.
• Experience with Second Front or comparable federal deployment platforms, government cloud environments, and ongoing support of authorized systems.
• Experience supporting AI/ML platforms, agent integrations, or developer tools across multiple partner organizations.

Benefits

• Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement
• 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision
• 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 available through Tara Mind
• Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux

Before you apply

• U.S. citizenship is required
• Ability and willingness to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance

About the company

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies in healthcare, cyber, and national security. Trase is one of their companies, providing an operating system for high-stakes environments.