Senior Technical Program Manager — Government Contracts

Front Door Defense; El Segundo (CA); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock plan

Medical insurance

One Medical

Vision coverage

Dental coverage

Parental leave

Job summary

Radiant is hiring a Technical Program Manager, Government to lead end-to-end government contracts—from milestones through deployment—within the Commercial organization. You will own the process, interfacing with licensing, state engagement, engineering, and manufacturing teams to deliver complex programs.

The role requires managing regulatory, engineering, and siting deliverables, maintaining schedules and baselines, and ensuring contract compliance while coordinating with contracting officers

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of experience in program management or project management.
• Experience managing programs requiring the delivery of complex capital equipment or large-scale industrial systems.
• Experience supporting U.S. government programs.
• Proven ability to manage programs with significant technical complexity, multiple parallel workstreams, and cross-functional dependencies.
• U.S. citizenship required (absolutely no exceptions); ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Drive contract milestones to completion.
• Manage the timely execution of regulatory, engineering, and siting deliverables.
• Serve as the primary interface with contracting officers, program offices, installation personnel, and end users.
• Architect and maintain program integrated master schedules and cost baselines, ensuring internal teams and subcontractors are aligned to contract obligations.
• Manage contract compliance including reporting requirements and milestone billing; support negotiation of contract modifications and change orders.
• Independently identify, assess, and drive resolution of programmatic risks and cross-functional dependencies.
• Own program financial performance, including budget and resource forecasting.
• Stand up and refine the project management processes, tools, and reporting cadence needed to provide clear visibility to company leadership and consistent milestone updates to customer partners.
• Carry the customer's voice back to Radiant, shaping engineering and deployment decisions.

Skills

Program management

Regulatory compliance

Cross-functional collaboration

Security clearance readiness

Stakeholder management

Job description

Radiant is hiring a Technical Program Manager, Government to lead end-to-end government contracts—from milestones through deployment—within the Commercial organization. You will own the process, interfacing with licensing, state engagement, engineering, and manufacturing teams to deliver complex programs.

The role requires managing regulatory, engineering, and siting deliverables, maintaining schedules and baselines, and ensuring contract compliance while coordinating with contracting officers