Program Manager, State & Enterprise Programs

We Love AI Jobs; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health, dental, vision

401k

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Wonderschool is seeking a Program Manager to oversee state and enterprise engagements, owning delivery plans, client relationships, and coordination with product and engineering across multiple projects.

You will manage milestones, UAT cycles, and acceptance criteria while driving change control to meet contractual commitments. This is a hands-on, fully remote role requiring strong communication and collaboration skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of program or project management on complex software delivery.
• Experience managing contractual milestones, UAT-based acceptance, and formal change control.
• Strong writing skills for status reports, meeting summaries, and acceptance criteria language.
• Ability to run plans depending on teams you do not manage, with stakeholder alignment.
• Experience in government or regulated-industry client projects is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery plan for each engagement across all workstreams and milestones.
• Run the client cadence: weekly status, steering meetings, escalations, and working sessions.
• Keep dependency registers current; manage data feeds, credentials, and decisions on a schedule.
• Manage scope: acceptance criteria negotiation, change requests, and intake of new work.
• Produce deliverables for client review and keep leadership informed of risks across the portfolio.
• Coordinate with engineering on integration timelines with state systems (ERP, data hubs, SSO).

Skills

Program management

Software delivery

UAT

Acceptance criteria

Change control

ERP integrations

State data hubs

SSO

Stakeholder management

Tools

Spreadsheets

Microsoft Project

Job description

# Program Manager, State & Enterprise ProgramsWonderschoolRemoteFull-timeUpload your resume once and Scout applies for youApply with ScoutShare this job:LinkedInXSave imageThis Program Manager will oversee delivery of Wonderschool’s state and enterprise software engagements, coordinating client expectations, project plans, and internal product and engineering teams. The work includes managing milestones, acceptance criteria, scope changes, risks, and the repeatable delivery process as the client portfolio grows.* Full-time* Fully Remote* 5+ years of program or project management on complex softwar### Skills and expertiseProgram managementSoftware deliveryUATAcceptance criteriaChange controlERP integrationsState data hubsSSO### Key responsibilities* Own delivery plans, milestones, UAT cycles, and acceptance across client engagements.* Run client meetings, manage escalations, and coordinate agency and internal stakeholders.* Track dependencies, scope changes, risks, and deliverables across the project portfolio.## How this job comparesCompared with 577 open senior operations jobs on October 10, 2026.Pay: This job does not publish its pay. The 240 open senior operations jobs that publish US pay start at $143K a year on average.Similar open jobs: We Love AI Jobs lists 577 open senior operations jobs at 147 companies.Remote work: This job is remote. 88 of the 577 senior operations jobs (15%) are remote.AI in this role: Low. The company works with AI, but AI is a small part of this role's daily work. The posting focuses on software program delivery, client coordination, and integrations, and does not mention AI tools or systems.## Full descriptionAbout WonderschoolWonderschool is the operating system for child care in America. State governments and large enterprises partner with us to run child care licensing, subsidy programs, and provider and family search on our platform. We are growing fast, and every new state or enterprise win becomes a complex, high-stakes delivery engagement.The RoleWe need a Program Manager to run our state and enterprise engagements. You will own the delivery plan, the client relationship, and the coordination between our clients and our product and engineering teams, across every active project. This is a hands-on role. You will spend your time in project plans, client meetings, spreadsheets of acceptance criteria, and hard conversations about dates.You are the person who makes sure what we promise to government and enterprise clients is what gets delivered, on time, on contract, with the paper trail to prove it.Responsibilities• Own the delivery plan for each engagement across all workstreams. Track milestones, UAT cycles, and acceptance against each contracted statement of work.• Run the client cadence on every project: weekly status, steering meetings, escalations, and working sessions with agency program staff, legal, and state IT.• Keep dependency registers current. Clients owe us integration specs, test environments, credentials, data feeds, and business decisions on a schedule. Hold both sides to their dates and keep the paper trail that supports excusable-delay and change-order claims.• Manage scope: capability traceability, acceptance criteria negotiation, change requests, and intake of new work.• Produce deliverables for client review and keep Wonderschool leadership ahead of risks across the whole portfolio instead of behind them.• Work with engineering leads on integration timelines with state systems (ERP platforms, state data hubs, SSO). You will not own technical design, but you need to follow the conversation and know when a date is slipping.• Build the repeatable program playbook as we add states and enterprise clients.Qualifications• 5+ years of program or project management on complex software delivery. Government or regulated-industry clients strongly preferred.• You have managed contractual milestones, UAT-based acceptance, and formal change control, and you have the scars to show for it.• You write well. Status reports, meeting summaries, and acceptance criteria language will carry your name.• You can run a plan that depends on teams you do not manage, on both sides of the table.• Strongly preferred: experience with child care programs in state government (licensing, subsidy/CCAP, eligibility, or provider systems).• A plus: state human services or eligibility systems experience, or familiarity with state procurement.Location and Compensation• Location: Remote. San Francisco preferred for in-person collaboration with the product and engineering team; open to remote candidates anywhere in the US.• Compensation: Competitive market rate plus meaningful equity.• Benefits: Full package (health, dental, vision, 401k, flexible PTO).