Lead Technical Program Manager - 892

Location: Broomfield, CO or Brooklyn Park, MN. This role may offer the opportunity to work remotely up to 2 days per week, with approvals. All applicants for placement in safety-sensitive positions will be required to submit to a pre-employment drug test.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of and manage detailed schedules, budgets, resource needs, and work plans for technical deliverables on complex, multi-faceted hardware R&D programs.
• Organize and coordinate with multiple technical and operational teams.
• Lead regular status meetings, project reviews, and end-of-task retrospectives.
• Ensure timely and effective communication of strategy, scope changes, risks, and progress between technical teams, partners, product and program management, and leadership through reports, dashboards, and presentations.
• Identify opportunities to accelerate schedule or develop needed technologies.
• Ability to travel up to 25%.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree minimum.
• Minimum 8+ years' experience in technical program management.
• Direct experience supporting or executing federal programs which includes strict adherence to reporting metrics, audits, and compliance requirements.
• Due to contractual requirements, must be a U.S. Person defined as a U.S. citizen, permanent resident or green card holder, or worker granted asylum or refugee status.
• Due to national security requirements, candidates for this position must not be a People's Republic of China national or Russian national unless the candidate is also a U.S. citizen.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a STEM field.
• Proven track record of guiding complex technology from R&D and prototyping.
• A background in quantum computing, optics and photonics, or experimental physics.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Experience in product development.
• Prior experience in the Quantum industry.
• Experience seeing technology-based projects through the full life cycle including managing schedule, risk, and budget.
• Prior experience on first-of-its-kind, early technology-based products or projects.
• Resourcefulness and the ability to predict challenges to proactively head-off obstacles.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others.
• Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality.
• Ability to adapt tactics and strategies to meet diverse, early phase, and strongly technical projects.
• Thorough understanding of risk and opportunity analysis and management processes related to program planning.

Pay

The pay range for this role is $164,000 – $205,000 annually. Actual compensation within this range may vary based on the candidate's skills, educational background, professional experience, and unique qualifications for the role. This range is inclusive of bonus target.

Benefits

• Flexible work schedule.
• Employer subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) match for student loan repayment benefit.
• Equity, 401k retirement savings plan.
• 12 paid holidays and generous vacation + sick time.
• Paid parental leave.
• Employee discounts.