Hybrid Program Manager chez eSimplicity

Description

About Us 

eSimplicity is a modern digital services company that works across government, partnering with our clients to improve the health and lives of millions of Americans, ensure the security of all Americans—from soldiers and veterans to kids and the elderly, and defend national interests on the battlefield. Our engineers, designers, and strategists cut through complexity to create intuitive products and services that courageously equip Federal agencies with solutions to transform today for a better tomorrow for all Americans.  

We’re seeking a passionate Program Manager who will play a pivotal role in supporting our Rapid Innovation Center (The RIC), specializing in leading initiatives related to our Innovation Framework, Technical Partnership Program, and Business Development Enablement. The role demands hands-on involvement, business acumen, leadership, and close collaboration with internal stakeholders across multiple, cross-functional teams as well as external partners. This multi-faceted role requires a highly collaborative team player who can move seamlessly between product and project.

Responsibilities: 

Product lead:   

• Define product roadmap:  Work cross functionally with senior engineers and technical leadership to create feature roadmaps that align with strategic technical goals. 
• Manage product lifecycles, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and successful delivery of outcomes. This includes working cross functionally with senior engineers and technical leadership to define product scope, create timelines, manage dependencies, and mitigate risks. 
• Stay updated on emerging digital and business trends. Collaborate with other business leaders to integrate digital opportunities into our business strategy, ensuring we remain at the forefront of technological advancements. 

Project lead:   

• Serve as project lead/scrum master of an agile delivery team.  Lead team ceremonies and ensure the timely delivery of work on the team by addressing delays, roadblocks and other risks that arise.   
• Oversee and facilitate resource management with a distributed team of shared resources. 
• Oversee and manage the cost, schedule, and performance logistics associated with successfully delivering key outcomes through the Rapid Innovation Center. 
• Manage technical certification level incentive program for internal staff along with other key programs that drive outcomes necessary to achieve, maintain, and advance eSimplicity’s partnership tiers with specific partners 
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members including product, HCD, engineering, and data science leaders to prioritize the pursuit of initiatives that enable the analysis, design, development and operation of new capabilities within the Rapid Innovation Center. 
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

Required Qualifications 

• A Bachelor’s degree in English, Mass Communications, or a technical discipline. With ten years of professional experience and at least four years of specialized experience, a degree is not required.  
• Experience leading projects, programs, and contracts for federal government customers within the GovCon industry.  
• Experience operating as a product owner or business analyst on a cross functional software engineering team.  
• Experience establishing and growing strategic partnerships with leading technology vendors.  
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.  
• Team oriented collaboration skills 
• Due to the nature of our customers, candidates are required to hold US Citizenship.  

Desired Qualifications: 

• Experience successfully negotiating license agreements with external vendors/partners. 
• Experience performing Contracts or Subcontracts Management. 
• Experience with P&L or Strategic Account Management. 
• Experience with LLMs and Agentic AI technology 

Working Environment:  

eSimplicity supports a hybrid work environment operating within the Eastern time zone so we can work with and respond to our government clients. Expected hours are 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern unless otherwise directed by manager.  

Occasional travel for training or project meetings in the DMV region. It is estimated to be less than 10% per year.  

Benefits:   

We offer a highly competitive salary and full healthcare benefits.  

Equal Employment Opportunity:   

eSimplicity is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, age, status as a protected veteran, sexual orientation, gender identity, or status as a qualified individual with a disability.