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Senior Technical Program Manager

Chainguard · United States - Remote · Remote

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About Chainguard

Chainguard provides trusted open source artifacts for every layer of your modern software stack—containers, language libraries, and VM images. Backed by General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.

About the role

Chainguard's security organization sits at the intersection of proactive, long-term initiatives and reactive, business-critical work. As we've grown, managing that balance, anticipating the downstream impact of changing priorities, and giving leadership a clear view of our security risk and exposure have become increasingly important, and increasingly complex. We're looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to bring structure and visibility to this space.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience in program management, technical program management, or operations roles
  • Meaningful experience in a broad, cross-functional operations or program management role, supporting many stakeholders across an organization rather than working within a single, self-contained team
  • Security experience is a plus, but not required. More important is the ability to operate effectively in a horizontal role with a large and diverse stakeholder group
  • A track record of building processes and exercising sound judgment in ambiguous environments, rather than defaulting to standard frameworks or playbooks
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to act as a strategic and consultative partner across functions
  • Experience managing competing priorities and communicating trade-offs, including difficult prioritization decisions, clearly and thoughtfully
More about this role

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.

Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.

Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.

US, East Coast Preferred

Chainguard's security organization sits at the intersection of proactive, long-term initiatives and reactive, business-critical work. As we've grown, managing that balance, anticipating the downstream impact of changing priorities, and giving leadership a clear view of our security risk and exposure have become increasingly important, and increasingly complex.

We're looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to bring structure and visibility to this space.

You'll operate horizontally across the security organization, partnering with Product...

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