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Technical Program Manager (Homeland Layered Defense), Public Sector

Scale · Colorado Springs, CO · On-site

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About Scale

Backed by Accel, Index and Y Combinator.

About the role

Scale's public sector business is providing the best of American commercial technology and innovation to protect the homeland and meet the moment. As a member of our public sector delivery team, you will own relationships critical to the portfolio of clients charged with a layered defense for the United States. You will be a catalyst, willing to go deep, get technical, and drive change.

What they're looking for

  • Active TS/SCI clearance
  • 5+ years of experience in technical program management, software engineering, systems engineering, product management, technical consulting, or a related technical delivery role
  • Strong technical literacy across software architecture, APIs, data systems, system integration, and AI/ML-enabled products
  • Ability to write detailed technical and product requirements that engineering teams can directly execute against
  • Experience driving complex technical programs across multiple engineering and stakeholder groups
  • Strong understanding of program management fundamentals, including requirements traceability, dependencies, risks, schedules, and deliverables
More about this role

Scale's public sector business is providing the best of American commercial technology and innovation to protect the homeland and meet the moment. As a member of our public sector delivery team, you will own relationships critical to the portfolio of clients charged with a layered defense for the United States. You will be a catalyst, willing to go deep, get technical, and drive change. You will manage customer relationships and partners as well as partner with our engineering team to solve Scale’s hardest problems. All of this serves an ultimate goal of delivering cutting-edge agentic AI to orchestrate portfolio management for defense of the homeland.

  • Own technical execution for one or more national security mission areas from initial requirement through deployment and formal evaluation
  • Translate operational workflows into detailed Product Requirements Documents (PRDs), Engineering Requirements Documents (ERDs), and executable engineering work
  • Work alongside engineers during cycle planning to define scope, sequencing, architecture constraints, dependencies, and milestones
  • Maintain end-to-end requirements traceability from customer objective to software build, test event,...

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