Principal Technical Program Manager
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Partner closely with security engineers, red team operators, and platform engineers to define technical requirements and drive development of infrastructure, tooling, and AI capabilities that scale offensive security operations. Partner closely with the CyberShield Engagement Lead Program Manager to align customer needs, engagement execution, and technical delivery. Work directly with customers to understand and execute their technical and operational needs, ensure operations are delivered successfully, and drive feedback and lessons learned into actionable improvements. Translate novel red team tradecraft and operational requirements into actionable engineering plans, technical designs, milestones, and execution strategies. Drive programs that advance agentic, AI-driven red teaming, including capabilities that accelerate reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and analysis. Partner with individual contributor engineers and technical leads to drive complex technical solutions from concept and design through implementation and operational adoption. Establish and manage program objectives, key results, success criteria, engineering milestones, and other metrics that measure program execution and security impact. Identify technical, operational, customer, and organizational dependencies and risks, and drive cross-team decisions and mitigation plans. Successfully operate in uncertain, complex, and novel environments, bringing structure to ambiguous technical problems and driving teams toward measurable outcomes. Embody our Culture and Values Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience. 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects. - Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their U.S. permanent residency or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate's citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable. 6+ years of experience working in security engineering or a closely related technical security field. 6+ years of experience driving collaboration across multidisciplinary engineering, security, or technical teams. 2+ years of experience working in red teaming, penetration testing, offensive security, or a closely related security domain. 2+ years of experience working with complex data and performing analysis to drive technical or program decisions. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related technical field.
Experience
defining and driving complex engineering programs involving security infrastructure, offensive security, or cloud environments.
Experience
partnering closely with engineers to develop technical requirements, evaluate designs, manage engineering dependencies, and drive complex technical solutions through delivery.
Understanding of red team operations, adversary emulation, penetration testing, offensive security tradecraft, or vulnerability research.
Experience
with AI-driven or agentic systems and an understanding of how AI can be applied to automate or scale complex technical workflows.
Experience
working with cloud technologies such as Azure, AWS, or GCP and familiarity with identity, endpoint, network, or application security.
Experience
establishing OKRs, program metrics, and data-driven measures of success and using those measures to inform technical and program decisions.
Demonstrated ability to produce clear engineering plans, technical strategy documents, executive communications, and presentations for executive leadership.
Experience
influencing and driving alignment across engineering, security, product, and organizational boundaries without relying on direct authority.
Experience
operating successfully in ambiguous environments and turning emerging or poorly defined technical problems into structured programs and executable plans.
Active U.S.
Government TS//SCI clearance with full-scope polygraph is preferred, enabling work with highly sensitive customer environments.
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