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Manage complex, multi-disciplinary defense programs focused on undersea systems, ensuring technical, schedule, and budget objectives are met. | Extensive experience in government contracting, R&D, or defense industry, with strong program management skills, security clearances, and technical expertise in undersea warfare or related fields. | About the Team: The Sensors Division within STR focuses on the development and analysis of advanced sensor systems in the RF, acoustic, and electro-optical domains. This includes the design and development of novel sensors and advanced information processing techniques from ideation to prototype implementations. The Ocean Technologies & Acoustic Systems (OTAS) Group develops and delivers advanced undersea sensors, payloads, and signal processing systems for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) applications. The Role: The OTAS Group is seeking a part-time Principal Program Manager with a highly operational centric undersea-warfare background to manage a portfolio of programs focused on future undersea systems and advanced signal processing. This position also requires extensive knowledge of Navy and IC customer structure and needs. Prior experience working within the Navy signal processing R&D and IC is highly beneficial. In this role you will manage multi-disciplinary teams of researchers, scientists, and engineers spread across multiple STR campuses to meet cost, schedule, and performance objectives on innovative, complex, and challenging national security programs. Your areas of specific focus will include building and executing programmatic baselines, including personnel, deliverables, and subcontractor / contract manufacturer management plans while anticipating risks, resolving resource, security, and contracting challenges, and meeting or managing customer, sponsor, and leadership expectations. A successful candidate will have recent and significant program management experience in several of the following areas: undersea warfare, sonar systems, ocean engineering, modeling and simulation, test & evaluation, hardware design, software architecture, uncrewed underwater vehicles, resource management, acoustic data analysis, signal processing, and/or communications. This position requires competency in leading and managing multi-disciplinary teams, briefing senior leadership, cultivating positive, collaborative, and productive work environments, and a strong proficiency in all aspects of program management. Strong interpersonal, communication, mentorship, and peer-leadership skills are also required. What you will do: Effectively executing multiple programs ensuring cost, schedule and technical program metrics are being tracked and within plan Lead proposals by providing expertise in proposal development while ensuring adherence to a gated capture process Create Subcontractor statements of work and manage/track Subcontractors to ensure proper execution Work with contract manufacturers to build up to LRIP and then meet LRIP milestones with high quality Lead multi-functional teams Provide regular program briefs to Group and Division Leadership Create and maintain an environment that fosters collaboration by giving clear direction and constructive feedback to the team Monitor progress against goals: anticipate risks, resolve issues, and initiate corrective actions as appropriate Who you are: Current TS/SSBI with SCI, ability to gain and SAP accreditations required, for which U.S citizenship is needed by the U.S government Technical Degree and 10+ years of prior relevant experience in government contracting, research and development (R&D), scientific & technical intelligence (S&TI), or advanced technology production Program Manager or Control Account Manager experience in a design and development and/or build contract including Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) definition, schedule generation, financial analysis/reporting, and resource management Experience in Proposal Management including planning and cost estimation Experience managing projects larger than $10M for the Department of War or IC Excellent interpersonal and communications skills Successful experience in leading and managing multi-discipline teams Strong presentation and organizational skills Even Better: Experience with advanced undersea warfare system concepts, signal processing, underwater acoustics, and ocean engineering Experience with sonar systems Work Experience in government, FFRDC, or defense industry companies and sponsors Earned Value Management System (EVMS) experience Contract manufacturing experience Risk and Opportunity Management experience Experience managing Research and Development programs Proficiency in all Microsoft Office applications including but not limited to MS Project, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Why Join Us? This is an opportunity to contribute to the development of groundbreaking undersea systems that will shape the future of undersea defense. You will work alongside a passionate and talented team, tackling some of the most challenging and rewarding problems in the field. If you are passionate about managing programs that deliver advanced undersea technology that sailors depend on working, we want to hear from you. Apply today and help us redefine what’s possible beneath the waves. Pay Information Full-Time Salary Range: $187,500 - $240,000 The salary range listed is based on external market data. Offers are based on factors, such as but not limited to, the candidate’s experience, education, training, key skills/critical skills, security clearances, and prevailing market and business conditions. STR is a growing technology company with locations near Boston, MA, Arlington, VA, near Dayton, OH, Melbourne, FL, and Carlsbad, CA. We specialize in advanced research and development for defense, intelligence, and national security in: cyber; next generation sensors, radar, sonar, communications, and electronic warfare; and artificial intelligence algorithms and analytics to make sense of the complexity that is exploding around us. STR is committed to creating a collaborative learning environment that supports deep technical understanding and recognizes the contributions and achievements of all team members. Our work is challenging, and we go home at night knowing that we pushed the envelope of technology and made the world safer. STR is not just any company. Our people, culture, and attitude along with their unique set of skills, experiences, and perspectives put us on a trajectory to change the world. We can't do it alone, though - we need fellow trailblazers. If you are one, join our team and help to keep our society safe! Visit us at www.str.us for more info. STR is an equal opportunity employer. We are fully dedicated to hiring the most qualified candidate regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation and pregnancy), marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any portion of the employment process, email us at appassist@str.us and provide your contact info. Pursuant to applicable federal law and regulations, positions at STR require employees to obtain national security clearances and satisfy the requirements for compliance with export control and other applicable laws.

Lead and manage cross-functional teams to deliver operationally valuable products for national security customers, engage with end users, coordinate subcontractors, and oversee contract execution. | Active Top Secret clearance with polygraph, intelligence community operational knowledge, experience managing production software programs, strong collaboration and communication skills, and understanding of DoD/IC mission and acquisition processes. | About the Team: STR's Intelligence Division researches, develops, and deploys advanced analytics and machine learning-based solutions to solve challenging problems in support of national security and the intelligence community. Our team consists of passionate and motivated individuals with advanced degrees in engineering, computer science, mathematics, and data science, who are seeking opportunities to use their technical knowledge and creativity to tackle some of the hardest problems that our customers face. Our projects span multiple different data modalities and incorporate advanced algorithms, deep learning, and statistical techniques to uncover patterns in social media, structured and unstructured text, time series, geospatial, and imagery data, and must operate under challenging constraints not typically found in the commercial world. The tools and technologies we develop have real world impact and are used by analysts to extract and enrich intelligence information around the globe. The Role: We are looking for a leader who is passionate about collaborating with high-performance teams to solve unique national security challenges with novel technologies. A Principal Program Manager is accountable for the ultimate success of the product and is responsible for ensuring that what is developed and delivered to customers is operationally valuable. In this role, a Program Manager will be expected to demonstrate: 1) expertise on the customer's challenges, desires, workflows, and acquisition processes, 2) expertise on the product and the leveraged technologies, 3) understanding of STR's business and the role the product plays, and 4) deep knowledge of the market and industry, including trends, customer expectations and competition. The Program Management role requires creativity and strong intellectual curiosity in applying new technologies to solve customer problems. Because the technologies we bring to market often represent the state of the art and may involve process changes, additional key skills for the Program Manager include persistence and strong communication to drive cross-functional collaboration. Finally, as the Program Manager is a key role within the Intelligence Division, they will play an important part in a variety of additional functions including business strategy, business development, and growing the team. This role will take advantage of STR's flexible, hybrid environment – when the work does not require use of STR's facilities, you are welcome to work remotely. What you will do: • Join an active, distributed team, working across a growing set of projects • Work ~75% time at the customer site in Washington, DC, and the rest of the time at STR's Arlington, VA office (with flexibility to work from home): the split work location is designed to support strong engagement with our customers, STR's on-site team members, and STR's technical and business operations teams in Arlington, VA and Woburn, MA • Engage directly with end users, build strong customer relationships, and constantly seek to apply new technology to solve real customer problems • Empower the designers, engineers, and scientists to act with a meaningful degree of autonomy by developing and clearly communicating a unifying product vision and strategy – both STR employees and our subcontractors • Manage STR and subcontractor personnel at the customer site • Understand all stakeholders, the constraints in which those stakeholders operate, and create customer solutions that work within the constraints of the business • Foster team collaboration to embrace the give and take between software functionality, user experience, and enabling technology • Continuously improve the product discovery process to establish compelling value and identify key risks • Hold high-integrity commitments to deliver viable solutions that work for the customer and business • Work in a fast-paced environment to enable successful contract execution, including financial planning and control, contract coordination, and subcontract coordination (in partnership with STR's Business Operations teams) Who You Are: • Active Top Secret security clearance (including willingness to undergo polygraph process), for which U.S. citizenship is needed by U.S. Government • US Defense or Intelligence Community expert with operational knowledge • Experience in guiding technical projects to translate mission needs into production software while identifying and tracking product risk • Aptitude for collaborating with stakeholders across a wide range of technical comfort levels • Team player and team leader, with proven ability to motivate cross functional teams to perform at their best • Comfortable working with data and complex analysis: both business operations tools (e.g., Excel) and our custom analytics and intelligence tools • Demonstrated success decomposing a problem into addressable component parts • Entrepreneurial spirit and eager to engage in technical marketing and business development Even Better: • Master's degree in a technical field or MBA • Experience in managing a DevOps or Agile environment, preferably related to large data/analytics. Able to manage programs using SAFe. • Prior military experience with emphasis on intelligence and delivering analytic products • Active TS/SCI security clearance with CI poly • 2+ years experience in product program management / product ownership for an operational production software implementation, for projects 5-50 FTE • Deep enough understanding of full-stack software technologies to consider capabilities and limitations • Knowledge of software development best practices and tools • Experience writing technical proposals, or leading proposal efforts • Working knowledge of DoD or IC mission and acquisition processes STR is a growing technology company with locations near Boston, MA, Arlington, VA, near Dayton, OH, Melbourne, FL, and Carlsbad, CA. We specialize in advanced research and development for defense, intelligence, and national security in: cyber; next generation sensors, radar, sonar, communications, and electronic warfare; and artificial intelligence algorithms and analytics to make sense of the complexity that is exploding around us. STR is committed to creating a collaborative learning environment that supports deep technical understanding and recognizes the contributions and achievements of all team members. Our work is challenging, and we go home at night knowing that we pushed the envelope of technology and made the world safer. STR is not just any company. Our people, culture, and attitude along with their unique set of skills, experiences, and perspectives put us on a trajectory to change the world. We can't do it alone, though - we need fellow trailblazers. If you are one, join our team and help to keep our society safe! Visit us at www.str.us for more info. STR is an equal opportunity employer. We are fully dedicated to hiring the most qualified candidate regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation and pregnancy), marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any portion of the employment process, email us at appassist@str.us and provide your contact info. Pursuant to applicable federal law and regulations, positions at STR require employees to obtain national security clearances and satisfy the requirements for compliance with export control and other applicable laws.