Senior Program Manager - R155 at Expedition Technology (Herndon, VA)
Expedition Technology· Herndon, VA·
Role details
Job description
At Expedition Technology (EXP), we solve challenging national security problems by bringing together exceptional people, advanced technology, and a culture built on trust, autonomy, and continuous learning. As a Senior Program Manager, you will lead complex technical programs for national security customers while strengthening the people, practices, and operational systems that help EXP succeed. This role combines program execution, customer leadership, team development, operational improvement, business growth, and broader organizational impact.
What You'll Do
Lead Programs and Customer Delivery
- Lead one or more technical programs involving computer vision, signal processing, AI/ML, software systems, sensing technologies, or related mission capabilities.
- Own program outcomes across customer commitments, technical performance, schedule, staffing, budget, and risk.
- Serve as a primary customer interface and build trusted relationships with mission stakeholders.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams in delivering capabilities that transition from development into operational use.
- Drive transparency, accountability, and informed decision-making across program teams.
Strengthen Operational Effectiveness
- Partner with Operations Leads to strengthen delivery, workforce planning, staffing visibility, onboarding, and organizational health across the portfolio.
- Support program financial management activities, including forecasting, staffing plans, resource allocation, and performance reviews.
- Contribute to operational metrics, continuous-improvement initiatives, and organizational problem-solving efforts.
- Help connect program-level insights to broader organizational decisions.
Develop People and Leaders
- Coach engineers, technical leads, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and emerging program leaders through meaningful feedback and career-development support.
- Contribute to building healthy teams and a positive organizational culture.
- Support recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding activities.
- Help identify and develop future leaders across the organization.
Contribute to Growth and Strategy
- Support customer engagement, opportunity development, capture, proposals, and transition planning for new programs.
- Help identify mission needs, emerging customer priorities, and opportunities for EXP capabilities.
- Contribute operational insight to discussions regarding staffing, growth, and organizational strategy.
- Work with Mission Leads, Operations Leads, and technical leaders to ensure execution realities inform future plans.
What We're Looking For
Required
- Active TS/SCI clearance.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, physics, mathematics, or another relevant technical discipline.
- Demonstrated success leading complex technical programs and multidisciplinary teams, including responsibility for cost, schedule, staffing, technical performance, risk, and customer satisfaction.
- Experience supporting Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, or other national security customers.
- Strong customer engagement and relationship-management skills.
- Ability to balance program execution with broader organizational priorities.
- Strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving abilities.
- Technical fluency in one or more relevant areas, such as computer vision, AI/ML, signal processing, software engineering, sensing systems, or data platforms, sufficient to lead technical teams and communicate credibly with customers.
Preferred
- Advanced degree in a technical, scientific, or business discipline.
- Experience with budgeting, forecasting, staffing, workforce planning, recruiting, hiring, or developing technical talent.
- Experience supporting proposal development, capture efforts, or business development activities.
- Experience leading Agile teams and organizations.
- Experience transitioning advanced technologies into operational environments.
- Deep customer relationships or mission experience within defense, intelligence, or national security domains.
Compensation
Salary Ranges by Career Level: Mid-career: $130,300 - $209,900 Late-career: $154,600 - $242,900
We recognize that every candidate brings a unique combination of experience and expertise. This position may be filled at multiple career levels, and compensation within the posted range will be determined based on relevant experience, education, technical expertise, specialized skills, the level at which the position is filled, and other job-related considerations.
Why work at Expedition Technology
- Unique Management Structure: Replaces traditional “bosses” with “coaches” who advocate for career progression and connect employees to learning opportunities. Employees choose their own coach annually.
- Exceptional Benefits & Flexibility:
- Individual Benefit Account (IBA): Employees receive a pool of funds to allocate as they wish across healthcare, PTO, and a bonus. Unused IBA dollars are paid out at year-end.
- Flexible Cash PTO: Can take up to 45 days of PTO per calendar year and can cash out unused time.
- Retirement: Up to 12% contribution to a 401(k) (employer match/profit sharing) plus student loan repayment plans.
- Parental Leave: 12 weeks paid for primary caregivers; 2 weeks for secondary.
- Learning Culture: Autonomy to guide careers with support from coaches. Benefits include tuition assistance, conference attendance, and internal “brown bag” discussions.
- Mission-Driven Work: The opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology that directly impacts national security.
- Work Policy: Likely on-site or hybrid, given the classified nature of much of the work (Herndon, VA location).
- Commitment to Accessibility: Explicit accommodations policy for candidates with disabilities.