Technical Program Manager, Strategy

About the role

The Technical Program Manager: Strategy plays a critical role in executing both sides of our Installation Resilience Platform strategy: go-to-market and internal clarity on complex platform initiatives. They establish and track to completion cross-functional opportunities, funded proposals and R&D; matrixed within the Strategy Team (including Product and Sales) and partner with the Engineering, Security, and User Success Teams to ensure our company is poised to deliver a platform that remains resilient, secure, and ready for the mission.

What Success Looks Like

• 30 Days: Onboard the company and begin to understand our processes
• 60 Days: Understand strategic scope, workflow, and make suggestions
• 90 Days: Assume responsibility for delivering your strategic program

What You’ll Do

• Clearly distill strategy requirements into actionable initiatives and plans
• Work directly with internal and external stakeholders to define scope
• Draft initiatives and proposals given a technical outline
• Support execution of any sales motion
• Track underway projects to completion
• Identify and manage risk for projects and initiatives across a portfolio
• Work with the Staff Technical Program Manager on continuous improvement
• Orchestrate program-level ceremonies for cross-team dependency resolution
• Provide weekly sales pipeline forecast and customer relationship tracking updates
• Represent the company, as required, to customers, partners, and contractors

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 5+ years with demonstrated success in managing project and proposal delivery
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in Agile methodologies and demonstrated use of Project Management Tools: Jira, Asana, MS Project, etc.
• Project Communications Tools: Slack, MS TEAMS, etc.
• Project Documentation Tools: Confluence, Google Workspace, etc.
• Domain Knowledge: Extensive experience managing multiple concurrent interrelated projects, preferably within a scaling go-to-market environment.
• Travel: You will be required to travel up to 8 times per year for site visits, current or future customer engagements and/or company meetings.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to obtain a DoD NIPR network account and Common Access Card (CAC)
• Must have, or be able to obtain, a Secret Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Based in the Denver, CO area.
• Demonstrated translation between traditional waterfall and agile models
• T-shaped person (experience in many things, depth in a handful) with depth in one or more of the following is important: - Project Management of - Strategic development - Proposal and quote writing processes - Solution Architecture Development - Cybersecurity, outage monitoring, and incident response - Network Operations, NOC/SOC day-to-day support and operations - DevSecOps - Continuous improvement to optimize processes and procedures - Set up, configuration and operation of project management and pipeline tooling
• Familiarity with small business and startup culture
• Department of Defense project experience is a bonus

Culture

At Simplesense, we value high-trust autonomy. We look for people who can navigate ambiguity and are driven by the mission.

• Safety & Innovation: You embed security and reliability practices into daily work to drive continuous improvement and mitigate risk.
• People & Communication: You invite vigorous debate and offer "kindly blunt" feedback, always maintaining empathy and assuming noble intent.
• Integrity & Ethics: You build trust by honoring commitments, acting ethically, and resolving conflict through direct, honest communication.
• Strategic Problem Solving: You focus on high-priority issues to create documented, and scalable solutions—avoiding shortcuts.
• Agility: You move quickly to fix small problems, learn from the past, and pivot transparently when the mission requires it.

Compensation and Benefits

Pay Range: $130K-$160K per year. Compensation is determined based on experience, skill level, and location. We review ranges regularly to ensure market competitiveness.

• Competitive Benefits
• - Equity
• - Medical, Life, Short-Term Disability, and AD&D insurance
• - Medical travel coverage
• - Dental coverage
• - Vision coverage
• - 401k matching