Senior Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary day-to-day program lead for customer engagements and deployments.
• Build trusted relationships with customer executives, program managers, engineers, and end users.
• Develop and manage project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, and deliverables.
• Lead Agile execution, including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Track progress through burndown metrics, milestone reporting, issue management, and program dashboards.
• Deliver weekly status reports and executive-level program updates.
• Gather, document, and prioritize customer requirements and operational needs.
• Coordinate closely with Product and Engineering to align customer requirements with the Worldscape roadmap.
• Lead execution of customer-specific capabilities using Customer Success Engineers when requirements are not yet supported by the platform.
• Identify reusable capabilities and drive their transition into the core Worldscape platform for future customer use.
• Manage risks, dependencies, action items, and stakeholder expectations.
• Support customer onboarding, training, adoption, operational success, and expansion opportunities.
• Act as the bridge between customer mission objectives and Worldscape platform evolution.

Professional Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience within the Department of War (DoW), Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community, military services, defense contractors, or mission-focused government programs.
• Understanding of defense planning, operations, force design, logistics, acquisition, readiness, campaign analysis, war gaming, or mission command.
• Experience supporting classified, IL5/IL6, Secret, or mission-critical environments.
• Experience in the gaming industry, particularly large-scale simulation, strategy, real-time, MMO, or virtual world environments.
• Familiarity with Entity Component System (ECS) architectures and data-oriented design principles.
• Experience with modeling and simulation, digital twins, synthetic environments, or decision-support systems.
• Experience with distributed cloud computing, cloud-native architectures, microservices, event-driven systems, and hyperscale platforms.
• Familiarity with AI/ML, analytics, graph technologies, or agentic systems.
• PMP, PgMP, Scrum Master, PMI-ACP, or similar certifications.
• Additional information
• Why Worldscape? There is nothing more important to Worldscape than our culture. It is the fundamental means by which we will succeed as an organization. Talent, ability, drive, experience, knowledge cannot be maximized without first embracing the culture we espouse and will live every single day. Worldscape offers great benefits, opportunities for continued growth, and the ability to directly affect change in our organization and be part of a high-growth startup at a pivotal stage.

Additional information

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity - Attractive benefits package - Flexible time off policy - Medical, Dental and Vision insurance - HSA health insurance options - 401k plan - Basic and Voluntary Life Insurance- Fast paced environment with flexibility and ownership Worldscape is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.