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# Staff Technical Program Manager (Industry Vertical - Healthcare) at Trase Systems

- **Company:** Trase Systems
- **Location:** Seattle WA OR Mclean VA OR, United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-26
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/trase/jobs/5216214007

## Job description

## About Us

Co-founded in 2023 by [Joe Laws](https://www.redcellpartners.com/member/joe-laws/) and [Grant Verstandig](https://www.redcellpartners.com/member/grant-verstandig/), Trase Systems is AI, Uncomplicated. Trase empowers enterprise leaders to harness the full potential of AI without the associated complexity and risks. We are an end-to-end solution for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI in the enterprise. Our platform specializes in bridging the “last mile” of AI adoption, unlocking AI's full potential while driving efficiency and significant cost savings. Trase is at the forefront of AI Agent innovation, topping the Hugging Face GAIA Leaderboard for Generalized AI Assistants, ahead of industry giants such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. We are leveraging our cutting-edge technologies to develop mission-critical agentic applications in complex industries such as Healthcare, Oil & Gas, and National Security.

## About the Role

We are hiring a Staff Technical Program Manager (L6) to lead the delivery of complex AI-enabled products and customer programs across our healthcare portfolio.

As a Staff TPM, you will independently own end-to-end delivery of multi-team, multi-stakeholder healthcare AI programs with significant customer and regulatory complexity. This is a senior individual-contributor role expected to set program standards, coach other program managers, and influence portfolio-level sequencing.

You will sit at the intersection of healthcare operations, product development, engineering, customer delivery, and governance. You will work directly with health systems and healthcare partners to understand their workflows, establish executable delivery plans, and guide programs from discovery and validation through production launch and expansion.

You will create a structure where requirements are incomplete, surface risks before they become blockers, drive decisions across multiple teams, and maintain a clear source of truth for scope, ownership, dependencies, milestones, and readiness. You will also turn lessons from the programs you lead into reusable practices that make subsequent healthcare implementations faster and more predictable.

## What You’ll Do

- Independently lead complex healthcare programs from customer discovery and use-case definition through technical implementation, validation, production launch, and operational transition.
- Partner directly with clinical, operational, IT, security, and executive stakeholders to understand workflows, pain points, data environments, integration constraints, and success measures.
- Translate ambiguous customer needs into clear program scope, requirements, milestones, ownership, dependencies, decision points, and measurable exit criteria.
- Coordinate delivery across product, engineering, AI/ML, platform, infrastructure, security, legal, compliance, and customer teams.
- Establish and maintain an authoritative source of truth for plans, risks, decisions, dependencies, validation status, launch readiness, and customer commitments.
- Manage complex dependencies involving EHR systems, customer APIs, identity and access management, clinical protocols, data access, cloud/on-premises infrastructure, and third-party systems.
- Drive healthcare AI-governance readiness, including use-case registration, risk classification, validation planning, audit evidence, customer reviews, approval gates, and production sign-off.
- Define and execute phased validation approaches (de-identified testing, sandbox, shadow mode, controlled rollout, and formal production acceptance) with explicit quality, safety, reliability, privacy, observability, and rollback criteria.
- Prepare and lead customer program reviews, executive readouts, technical working sessions, governance reviews, and go-live readiness assessments.
- Convert deployment lessons into reusable playbooks, onboarding checklists, validation standards, templates, and program-management mechanisms for the healthcare portfolio.
- Surface cross-program conflicts, capacity constraints, and sequencing decisions, and drive the appropriate leaders to resolution.

## Qualifications

- 8+ years of experience in technical program management, product delivery, engineering program management, healthcare implementation, or a related role.
- Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional software or platform programs from ambiguous discovery through production adoption.
- Experience delivering technology in healthcare, life sciences, or another highly regulated environment involving sensitive data and formal approval processes.
- Experience working directly with enterprise customers and communicating effectively with engineers, product leaders, executives, operational teams, and domain experts.
- Strong technical fluency across software architecture, APIs, integrations, data flows, cloud infrastructure, identity, security, testing, deployment, and production operations.
- Ability to engage deeply with engineering teams, understand technical constraints, challenge assumptions, and translate engineering decisions into program and customer impact.
- Experience managing programs with external dependencies, long lead-time approvals, customer-controlled systems, and competing organizational priorities.
- Strong judgment in balancing delivery speed, customer value, technical quality, security, regulatory obligations, and long-term product maintainability.
- Proven ability to influence decisions and drive accountability across multiple teams without relying on direct authority.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including concise executive reporting, decision documentation, risk framing, and customer-facing facilitation.
- Willingness to travel periodically to customer locations for discovery, validation, governance reviews, and production launches.

## Preferred

- Experience delivering software or AI capabilities within health systems, academic medical centers, clinical research organizations, healthcare technology companies, or provider operations.
- Experience with EHR implementations or integrations (e.g., Epic, Oracle Health/Cerner).
- Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards and patterns such as FHIR, SMART on FHIR, HL7 v2, CDS Hooks, interface engines, and healthcare APIs.
- Experience managing healthcare privacy, security, and contracting dependencies (PHI, HIPAA, BAAs, audit logging, customer-managed environments).
- Experience with clinical or operational AI-governance processes, model validation, human-in-the-loop workflows, shadow-mode testing, and controlled production rollout.
- Familiarity with AI agents, LLM applications, RAG, guardrails, evaluations, workflow orchestration, and model observability.
- Experience with Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), customer-managed deployments, and secure enterprise software delivery.
- Experience managing programs involving clinical-administrative workflows such as document routing, scheduling, prescription renewal, prior authorization, in-basket management, discharge planning, or clinical research operations.
- Experience building scalable delivery processes that reduce implementation time and customer-specific engineering work across multiple deployments.
- Prior experience in a startup, forward-deployed engineering organization, professional-services environment, or other high-ownership, rapid-execution setting.

If you want to be on the cutting edge of technology, building AI solutions for the future, and are up for a challenge, let’s talk!

Salary Range: $200,000-230,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.

## #LI-RCP

Our Trase Benefits:

For full-time roles only

- Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows
- 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
- Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
- Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
- Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
- Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.
- Mental health benefits are available through [Tara Mind](https://www.taramind.com/).

We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.

Applicant Data Disclosure

By submitting an application, you acknowledge that Red Cell Partners, LLC ("Red Cell") uses third-party service providers to facilitate its recruitment and hiring processes. These providers include applicant tracking systems, candidate verification platforms, and fraud detection tools (collectively, "Hiring Platforms"). Your application materials, including your résumé, cover letter, work samples, responses to application questions, and any other information you submit, may be transmitted to and processed by these Hiring Platforms for the following purposes:

- Managing and administering your application throughout the hiring process;
- Verifying the accuracy and authenticity of application materials, including by cross-referencing information you provide against publicly available sources and proprietary databases;
- Identifying indicators of potentially fraudulent, fabricated, or materially misleading application content, including but not limited to discrepancies between submitted materials and publicly available professional profiles, geographic anomalies, and fabricated work histories.

Applications that are flagged through this process as containing indicators of fraud or material misrepresentation may be declined from further consideration. If you have questions about the status of your application or the evaluation process, please contact talent@redcellpartners.com.

Red Cell requires its Hiring Platform providers to process your information solely for the purposes described above and in accordance with applicable law. Your information will be retained only for as long as necessary to fulfill these purposes and any applicable legal obligations, after which it will be deleted in accordance with Red Cell's data retention policies.

For more information about how your data is used, please refer to our Privacy Policy and [Applicant Privacy Notice](https://www.redcellpartners.com/applicant-privacy-policy/).

## About Trase Systems

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Trase provides a governed AI operating system for deploying, managing, and optimizing autonomous agents in highly regulated industries such as healthcare, government, and defense.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage – raised $107M seed round in June 2026, plus $10.5M pre-seed in November 2025)
- **Headquarters**: McLean, Virginia, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Grant Verstandig (Co-Founder & CEO) and Joe Laws (Co-Founder & Chief Architect)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: AI agent platform, governed AI, healthcare IT, government technology, defense, energy
- **Target customers**: B2B – Enterprise, specifically health systems, defense teams, clinical trial organizations, and regulated enterprises
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To empower elite organizations to deploy AI the right way." To be the unbreakable foundation behind the decisions that matter most.

## Products & Services
- **Trase OS**: Orchestrate, secure, and govern agents across cloud, on-prem, and edge devices. (Platform/OS)
- **Trase Arena**: Build and launch custom agents on Trase OS. (Development environment)
- **Trase Leagues**: Specialized, configurable, ready-to-deploy agents for specific use cases (e.g., healthcare, government). (Pre-built agent suites)
- **Trase SDK**: Software development kit for integrating and extending Trase capabilities. (Developer tool)
- **Trase Origin**: A component for orchestrating, securing, and governing agents across environments. (Infrastructure layer)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of at least $117.5M ($10.5M pre-seed + $107M seed round)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Early partners include Duke Health and the U.S. Navy. Specific investors are not publicly named in available sources, but the company is backed by Red Cell Partners (based on talent sourcing).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 253.3% year-over-year to 45 employees (as of mid-2026). Duke Health's cardiology division automated 1,400 monthly hours of fax processing using Trase. Topped the Hugging Face GAIA Leaderboard for Generalized AI Assistants, ahead of Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. 9 active job postings across engineering, sales, and product.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Governance-first architecture**: Built for compliance, auditability, and data sovereignty from day one — critical for healthcare, defense, and energy.
- **Rapid deployment**: Claims "go live in less than 30 days" with pre-built agents and modular infrastructure.
- **Proven performance in regulated environments**: Already deployed in health systems and defense teams where failure is not an option.
- **99.8% annualized value creation** (as stated on website) and significant admin work reduction.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling deployment across healthcare, government, and energy verticals; expanding agent library and governance features; building out sales and partnership teams.
- **Direction for growth**: Targeting "hundreds of millions" in future funding; deepening integrations with existing enterprise systems; expanding into national security and energy sectors.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Values "Integrity. Always." and a "Play to Win" mindset. Emphasis on disciplined, talented people united around a shared mission.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Hybrid and remote options available. Office locations in Seattle, WA; McLean, VA; and Durham, NC. Many roles are remote (USA) with preference for proximity to hubs.
- **Notable perks** (from careers page):
  - 14 weeks fully paid parental leave
  - 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision for employee and family
  - Unlimited PTO
  - Competitive salary
  - Optional 401(k) and FSA plans
- **Engineering culture**: Cutting-edge work on agentic AI (top of GAIA leaderboard), with roles in platform architecture, DevSecOps, developer experience, and AI research. Fast-paced, high-growth startup environment.

## Sources
1. [Trase homepage](https://www.trase.ai/)
2. [Trase About page](https://www.trase.ai/about)
3. [Trase Careers page](https://www.trase.ai/careers/)
4. [Trase LinkedIn company page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/trasesystems)
5. [Trase Greenhouse job board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/trase)
6. [Axios - Trase raises $107M for health care and defense AI](https://www.axios.com/) (snippet confirmed via search)
7. [Technical.ly - McLean startup Trase raises $107M seed round](https://technical.ly/) (snippet confirmed via search)
8. [Washington Business Journal - Duke Health cardiology automation](https://www.bizjournals.com/washington) (snippet confirmed via search)

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