Senior Technical Program Manager

The role, in a nutshell

Great security starts with solid execution. At Chainguard, that means delivering the right outcomes without the chaos.

What You’ll Do

• Wrangle complexity: Help break down big ideas and thorny problems into well-scoped, achievable plans.
• Drive alignment: Translate vision into shared goals across teams, then keep those efforts focused and moving forward.
• Own delivery: From kickoff through launch, track progress, manage risk, and ensure we ship with confidence.
• Bring clarity: Keep stakeholders informed, flag blockers early, and use data to guide decisions when tradeoffs are tough.
• Be the duct tape: Work across engineering, product, security, and leadership to keep everyone on the same page.

What We’re Looking For

• You’ve led cross-functional programs before with ideally 5+ years in high-growth or technical environments.
• You’re technically fluent: maybe you’ve got a degree in Computer Science or just years of real-world experience with engineering teams.
• You’ve worked closely with infrastructure, platform, or developer tooling teams and understand how they tick.
• You know how to influence without authority and bring structure without red tape.

Bonus Points

• Experience with security-focused or compliance-driven engineering orgs.
• Familiarity with product operations as a discipline.
• A deep respect for secure-by-default systems and a genuine love for open source communities.

About Us

• We live and breathe our company values:
• We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
• We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
• We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
• We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.

A few of the benefits we offer

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!)
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
• ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.

Pay

Base Salary Range: $153,000 - $180,000 USD