Staff Technical Program Manager (Industry Vertical - Healthcare)

Red Cell Partners, LLC.; Seattle, McLean (WA, VA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health care

Unlimited PTO

Professional development

401K, equity incentives

Maternity/Paternity leave

Job summary

Red Cell Partners, LLC. in Seattle, WA (or McLean, VA) seeks a Staff Technical Program Manager to lead healthcare AI programs across multiple teams and stakeholders, including health systems and regulatory considerations.

This senior IC role sets program standards, coaches other program managers, and drives end-to-end delivery from discovery through production launch, while aligning with governance and risk controls.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in technical program management, product delivery, or healthcare implementation.
• Experience leading cross-functional software or platform programs end-to-end.
• Healthcare or regulated environment experience with sensitive data and approvals.
• Direct work with enterprise customers and engineers, product leaders, executives.
• Strong fluency in software architecture, APIs, data flows, cloud, security, and production ops.
• Ability to influence across teams without formal authority.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex healthcare programs from discovery through launch and transition.
• Partner with clinical, operational, IT, security, and exec stakeholders.
• Translate ambiguous needs into clear scope, milestones, and ownership.
• Coordinate delivery across product, AI/ML, platform, and security teams.
• Maintain an authoritative source of truth for plans, risks, and decisions.
• Manage dependencies across EHRs, APIs, IAM, and cloud/on‑prem infra.
• Drive governance readiness, risk classification, and validation planning.
• Lead customer reviews, governance sessions, and go‑live readiness.
• Turn deployment lessons into reusable playbooks and templates.
• Identify cross‑program conflicts and drive resolution with leaders.

Skills

Healthcare program management

Executive stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Regulatory & governance

Complex multi-team coordination

Strategic planning & risk

Independent decision making

Communication (written & verbal)

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

EHR / healthcare integration

APIs & data flows

Job description

Staff Technical Program Manager (Industry Vertical - Healthcare)

Seattle, WA or McLean, VA or Remote (USA)

About Us

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market in three distinct practice areas: healthcare, cyber, and national security. United by a shared sense of duty and deep belief in the power of innovation, Red Cell is developing powerful tools and solutions to address our Nation’s most pressing problems.

About Trase

Co-founded in 2023 by Joe Laws and Grant Verstandig , Trase Systems is AI, Uncomplicated. Trase empowers enterprise leaders to harness the full potential of AI without the associated complexity and risks. We are an end-to-end solution for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI in the enterprise. Our platform specializes in bridging the “last mile” of AI adoption, unlocking AI's full potential while driving efficiency and significant cost savings. Trase is at the forefront of AI Agent innovation, topping the Hugging Face GAIA Leaderboard for Generalized AI Assistants, ahead of industry giants such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. We are leveraging our cutting-edge technologies to develop mission-critical agentic applications in complex industries such as Healthcare, Oil & Gas, and National Security.

About the Role

We are hiring a Staff Technical Program Manager (L6) to lead the delivery of complex AI-enabled products and customer programs across our healthcare portfolio.

As a Staff TPM, you will independently own end-to-end delivery of multi-team, multi-stakeholder healthcare AI programs with significant customer and regulatory complexity. This is a senior individual-contributor role expected to set program standards, coach other program managers, and influence portfolio-level sequencing.

You will sit at the intersection of healthcare operations, product development, engineering, customer delivery, and governance. You will work directly with health systems and healthcare partners to understand their workflows, establish executable delivery plans, and guide programs from discovery and validation through production launch and expansion.

You will create a structure where requirements are incomplete, surface risks before they become blockers, drive decisions across multiple teams, and maintain a clear source of truth for scope, ownership, dependencies, milestones, and readiness. You will also turn lessons from the programs you lead into reusable practices that make subsequent healthcare implementations faster and more predictable.

What You’ll Do

• Independently lead complex healthcare programs from customer discovery and use-case definition through technical implementation, validation, production launch, and operational transition.
• Partner directly with clinical, operational, IT, security, and executive stakeholders to understand workflows, pain points, data environments, integration constraints, and success measures.
• Translate ambiguous customer needs into clear program scope, requirements, milestones, ownership, dependencies, decision points, and measurable exit criteria.
• Coordinate delivery across product, engineering, AI/ML, platform, infrastructure, security, legal, compliance, and customer teams.
• Establish and maintain an authoritative source of truth for plans, risks, decisions, dependencies, validation status, launch readiness, and customer commitments.
• Manage complex dependencies involving EHR systems, customer APIs, identity and access management, clinical protocols, data access, cloud/on-premises infrastructure, and third-party systems.
• Drive healthcare AI-governance readiness, including use-case registration, risk classification, validation planning, audit evidence, customer reviews, approval gates, and production sign-off.
• Define and execute phased validation approaches (de-identified testing, sandbox, shadow mode, controlled rollout, and formal production acceptance) with explicit quality, safety, reliability, privacy, observability, and rollback criteria.
• Prepare and lead customer program reviews, executive readouts, technical working sessions, governance reviews, and go-live readiness assessments.
• Convert deployment lessons into reusable playbooks, onboarding checklists, validation standards, templates, and program-management mechanisms for the healthcare portfolio.
• Surface cross-program conflicts, capacity constraints, and sequencing decisions, and drive the appropriate leaders to resolution.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in technical program management, product delivery, engineering program management, healthcare implementation, or a related role.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional software or platform programs from ambiguous discovery through production adoption.
• Experience delivering technology in healthcare, life sciences, or another highly regulated environment involving sensitive data and formal approval processes.
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers and communicating effectively with engineers, product leaders, executives, operational teams, and domain experts.
• Strong technical fluency across software architecture, APIs, integrations, data flows, cloud infrastructure, identity, security, testing, deployment, and production operations.
• Ability to engage deeply with engineering teams, understand technical constraints, challenge assumptions, and translate engineering decisions into program and customer impact.
• Experience managing programs with external dependencies, long lead-time approvals, customer-controlled systems, and competing organizational priorities.
• Strong judgment in balancing delivery speed, customer value, technical quality, security, regulatory obligations, and long-term product maintainability.
• Proven ability to influence decisions and drive accountability across multiple teams without relying on direct authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including concise executive reporting, decision documentation, risk framing, and customer-facing facilitation.
• Willingness to travel periodically to customer locations for discovery, validation, governance reviews, and production launches.

Preferred

• Experience delivering software or AI capabilities within health systems, academic medical centers, clinical research organizations, healthcare technology companies, or provider operations.
• Experience with EHR implementations or integrations (e.g., Epic, Oracle Health/Cerner).
• Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards and patterns such as FHIR, SMART on FHIR, HL7 v2, CDS Hooks, interface engines, and healthcare APIs.
• Experience managing healthcare privacy, security, and contracting dependencies (PHI, HIPAA, BAAs, audit logging, customer-managed environments).
• Experience with clinical or operational AI-governance processes, model validation, human-in-the-loop workflows, shadow-mode testing, and controlled production rollout.
• Familiarity with AI agents, LLM applications, RAG, guardrails, evaluations, workflow orchestration, and model observability.
• Experience with Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), customer-managed deployments, and secure enterprise software delivery.
• Experience managing programs involving clinical-administrative workflows such as document routing, scheduling, prescription renewal, prior authorization, in-basket management, discharge planning, or clinical research operations.
• Experience building scalable delivery processes that reduce implementation time and customer-specific engineering work across multiple deployments.
• Prior experience in a startup, forward-deployed engineering organization, professional-services environment, or other high-ownership, rapid-execution setting.
• 100% employer-paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
• Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
• Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
• Opportunities for professional development and continued learning with educational reimbursements.
• Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.

Salary Range: $200,000-230,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.

Our Red Cell Partners Benefits (may differ for each incubation):

For full-time roles

• Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement withstrong performanceas the firm grows
• 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
• Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
• Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
• Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
• Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.
• Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind .
• Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux .

We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.