Technical Program Manager

Location: On-site in Arlington, Virginia, United States. Limited to U.S. citizens due to U.S. government contract and security requirements; eligibility to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance is required.

Base salary: $124,000–$170,000 per year. Estimated total compensation: $162,000–$257,000, including target bonus and estimated equity value.

Company

hirify.global industrializes offensive cyber operations for the United States and its allies, developing software for government customers and mission-critical deployments.

What you will do

• Run the multi-team planning cycle from intake through commitment and close-out, leading planning sessions with product managers and engineering managers.
• Maintain sizing standards, challenge unsupported estimates, track estimates against actual effort, and own the rolling delivery forecast with dates and confidence levels.
• Run status cadences and produce program-level reporting for executive leadership.
• Maintain deployment milestone registers, connect milestones to roadmap dependencies, and review milestone health with deployment managers.
• Manage cross-team dependencies and the program risk register, ensuring roadmap changes and commitment tradeoffs are made explicitly.
• Run end-of-cycle retrospectives and improve the planning process based on planning and delivery results.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software organizations, including at least 7 years owning delivery planning across multiple teams as a technical program manager, engineering manager, or technical lead.
• Software engineering experience or sufficient hands-on technical depth to read designs and assess whether estimates are credible.
• Ability to evaluate product requirements for engineering readiness, identify missing information, and assess whether requirements, designs, and estimates fit together.
• Experience running recurring planning cycles for multiple teams from intake through commitment and close-out, including explaining process improvements.
• Experience owning delivery forecasts or committed dates relied upon by leadership and measuring and improving forecast accuracy.
• Experience holding contributors and executives accountable for commitments while maintaining their trust.
• Experience tracking engineering work against external commitments such as customer deployments, contract milestones, or dates required by other organizations.
• Ability to write clear, concise status reports for engineering teams and executives.
• Eligibility to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance and U.S. citizenship.

Nice to have

• Experience in defense, intelligence, or national security technology programs.
• Experience coordinating software deployments to customer-controlled private cloud, on-premises, or classified environments.
• Experience designing a planning process from scratch at a growing company.
• Active U.S. Government security clearance.
• Experience building program tracking and reporting in Linear, Notion, Jira, Confluence, or equivalent tools, including automated status rollups.
• Experience using AI tools to reduce manual work in status reporting, tracking, and risk monitoring.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on mission-focused cybersecurity software for government customers and national security programs.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineering managers, deployment managers, and executive leadership.
• Engineering teams use Go, Python, React, TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Deployments span hirify.global's cloud, customer private clouds, and on-site customer environments.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability, and parental leave options are available for eligible full-time employees.
• Paid holidays, flexible PTO, 401(k) options, HSA/FSA, and dependent care FSA are available, subject to location, role, and eligibility.