PDLC Program Manager: AI‑Driven SaaS, Cross‑Team

Vasion; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Discretionary Vacation Bonus

Flexible paid time off

Paid parental leave

Competitive pay

Full benefits package

Training/Advancement opportunities

401k with company match

Immediate vesting

Mental Wellness Support

Company-contributed HSA

Onsite gym, snacks & drinks, arcade, &

Job summary

Vasion is seeking a Program Manager on the PDLC team to operate the lifecycle from discovery through growth, embedded with engineering and product management. You will be a practitioner, coach, and change agent helping teams understand and trust the PDLC, not simply track status.

You will split your time between running day-to-day PDLC activities across programs and contributing to framework improvements. A curiosity about AI and agent-native development is part of the job.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
• PMP, CSM, PMI-ACP, or equivalent a plus.
• Helped a skeptical engineering or product management team adopt a new way of working and can describe specifically what it took.
• Contributed to building a PDLC or SDLC framework from scratch.
• Has a working mental model of cross-functional alignment and tactics to address it.

Responsibilities

• Operate as an embedded PDLC practitioner, modeling the framework and helping teams understand its purpose.
• Coach engineering and product management teammates on PDLC practices.
• Build trust through consistency and genuine partnership, not authority.
• Communicate PDLC value to reduce context-switching and improve handoffs.
• Partner to document processes, templates, gate criteria, and governance standards.
• Develop playbooks and documentation for accessibility across teams.
• Own the full lifecycle of assigned programs from Discovery through Grow.
• Create program plans with shared visibility for PM, Eng, Design, QA and GTM.
• Stay ahead of risks and blockers with well-reasoned options.
• Facilitate kick-offs, reviews, and retrospectives with clear next steps.
• Surface cross-team misalignments and resolve dependencies early.
• Maintain accurate program documentation throughout the lifecycle.

Skills

PDLC

Change enablement

Cross-functional collaboration

Program management

Jira/Confluence

Notion

Adobe Workfront

AI curiosity

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

PMP/CSM/PMI-ACP or equivalent

Tools

Jira/Confluence

Notion

Adobe Workfront

Job description

Vasion is seeking a Program Manager on the PDLC team to operate the lifecycle from discovery through growth, embedded with engineering and product management. You will be a practitioner, coach, and change agent helping teams understand and trust the PDLC, not simply track status.

You will split your time between running day-to-day PDLC activities across programs and contributing to framework improvements. A curiosity about AI and agent-native development is part of the job.