Technical Program Manager, Strategy

Simplesense builds, deploys, and sustains the Installation Resilience Platform that enables mission operators to rapidly adapt and respond. The Platform protects critical infrastructure from cyber attack while unlocking previously siloed information to monitor, diagnose, and improve response times to incidents. Our adversaries rapidly adopt the latest technology: we help defense users respond in kind.

Simplesense is a non-traditional defense contractor and prime on the Air Force's Installation Resilience Operations Command and Control (IROC) program, which is now expanding to five additional Air Force, Space Force, and Army installations from the one prototype installation, Tyndall Air Force Base.

Our team combines over 100 years of direct mission experience solving hard problems with 50 years technical expertise deploying DevSecOps, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure, giving us a deep appreciation for our customers' mission and end users' priorities. We build for scale, architecting and prioritizing technical work for long term sustainability.

Technical Program Manager: Strategy

Location: Hybrid (Onsite & Remote) w/travel

About the Role

As the Technical Program Manager: Strategy you will play a critical role in executing both sides of our Installation Resilience Platform strategy: go-to-market and internal clarity on complex platform initiatives.

You will establish and track to completion cross-functional opportunities, funded proposals and R&D; matrixed within the Strategy Team (including Product and Sales) and partnering with the Engineering, Security, and User Success Teams you will ensure our company is poised to deliver a platform that remains resilient, secure, and ready for the mission.

Work Model: We prioritize candidates in the Denver, CO area, but are open to remote talent.

• Locals: 2-4 days/month onsite.
• Remote: Up to 8 x 1-week trips for company, team or customer meetings.

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

What You Bring

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

Our 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

Our Typical Hiring Process

• Find Your Fit: Your journey starts here. Explore and apply to our open positions to find the right role for your skills.
• Initial Chat: A brief call with our recruiting team to learn about your background and answer your initial questions about Simplesense.
• Values & Vision: A conversation with a hiring manager to discuss how your aspirations align with our mission and goals of the team.
• Show Your Skills: Complete a technical assessment that reflects the work you'd be doing.
• Team Interview: Interview with the team to discuss your experience and see if we're a great match.
• Final Handshake: A final conversation to ensure we've answered all your questions before making a decision.
• Welcome to Simplesense!

Simplesense is an equal opportunity employer committed to a policy of merit-based employment. All employment decisions—including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, and termination—are made based on individual qualifications, performance, and business needs.

We strictly prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind on the basis of protected characteristics as recognized by federal, state, or local law.

As a U.S. government contractor, Simplesense complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA). If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete the application or take part in the interview process, please contact People Operations at careers@simplesense.io.