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 by assigned programs.

Salary: $220,000–$260,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global provides a HIPAA- and SOC 2-compliant operating system for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI agents in high-stakes environments, including healthcare and national security.

What you will do

• Own technical program delivery for Red Cell Federal, Red Cell Partners, and portfolio companies, from initial requests through validated customer acceptance.
• Translate partner requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, dependencies, owners, and testable delivery milestones.
• Drive deployment readiness across customer-managed cloud, private-network, and on-premises environments, including infrastructure, access, networking, secrets, model integrations, and workflow validation.
• Coordinate security and compliance delivery with GRC, including RMF/ATO, STIG, impact-level requirements, remediation, evidence, and approval dependencies.
• Manage releases, image handoffs, version compatibility, vulnerability scans, software bills of materials, deployment guides, rollback readiness, patching, and upgrades.
• Lead issue triage, escalations, onboarding, operational handoffs, documentation, training, planning, delivery reviews, and risk communication across engineering, security, product, and partner teams.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship and ability and willingness to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance are required.
• 8–10+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering, or related technical delivery roles, with demonstrated Staff-level scope; broader multi-program leadership and organizational influence are required for Senior Staff.
• 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.
• Understanding of distributed systems, APIs, agent workflows, and integration boundaries sufficient to inspect technical plans, challenge assumptions, and lead tradeoff discussions.
• Experience with cloud and/or on-premises deployments, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, networking, identity and access, and secrets management.
• Working 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 tracking, 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, collaborative working style focused on customer outcomes and repeatable delivery.
• Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
• Paid maternity and paternity leave for 14 weeks at normal pay.
• Unlimited PTO with management approval, professional development opportunities, and continued learning.
• Optional 401(k), FSA, equity incentives, and mental health benefits.