Staff/Senior Staff Technical Program Manager (AI)

Location: Seattle, WA or McLean, VA (preferred), or Remote (USA). U.S. citizenship is required, with the ability and willingness to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance as required.

Salary: $220,000–$260,000 annually.

Company

hirify.global is an incubation and investment firm building technology companies in healthcare, cyber, and national security; Trase provides a secure AI operating system for high-stakes environments.

What you will do

• Own technical program delivery for Red Cell Federal, hirify.global, and portfolio companies adopting and operating Trase OS.
• Translate partner requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, dependencies, owners, and testable milestones while maintaining a prioritized backlog.
• Drive secure deployment readiness across customer-managed cloud, private-network, and on-premises environments, including infrastructure, access, networking, secrets, integrations, and validation.
• Coordinate RMF/ATO, STIG, impact-level, vulnerability remediation, evidence, release, image handoff, rollback, and operational-readiness activities with engineering and GRC.
• Lead partner issue triage, technical escalations, release planning, delivery reviews, risk escalation, and executive visibility across engineering and platform teams.
• Build repeatable onboarding and operational handoffs through runbooks, architecture and data-flow documentation, training, and knowledge transfer.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship and ability and willingness to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance, as required by assigned programs.
• 8–10+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering, or related technical delivery roles, with demonstrated Staff-level scope; Senior Staff candidates need broader multi-program leadership and organizational influence.
• Experience delivering complex software, infrastructure, or platform programs to external customers, including secure or regulated environments.
• Strong technical judgment and experience leading cross-team execution, prioritization, risk management, and customer-facing escalations under ambiguity.
• Clear written and verbal communication with engineers, security specialists, partner teams, and executives, including challenging unclear requirements and negotiating realistic commitments.
• Working knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, agent workflows, integration boundaries, cloud and/or on-premises deployments, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, networking, identity and access, and secrets management.
• Familiarity with secure software delivery, vulnerability remediation, audit logging, observability, operational readiness, and translating security and compliance requirements into engineering deliverables and validation evidence.

Nice to have

• TPM experience supporting national security, defense, federal agencies, government customers, or delivery partners.
• Active U.S. government security clearance.
• Experience with RMF/ATO, STIG hardening, POA&M remediation, or DoD IL4/IL5/IL6 environments.
• Experience with Second Front or comparable federal deployment platforms, government cloud environments, and authorized-system support.
• Experience supporting AI/ML platforms, agent integrations, or developer tools across multiple partner organizations.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a high-ownership, practical, collaborative working style focused on customer outcomes and repeatable delivery.
• Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
• 14 weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave, unlimited PTO with management approval, and professional development opportunities.
• Optional 401(k), FSA, equity incentives, mental health benefits, and GLP-1 solutions.