Lead Program Manager for Commercial Projects - 899

Key Responsibilities:

Customer Program Leadership
Lead complex, high-impact commercial programs through various stages, spanning initiation through execution.
Be hands-on, managing the day-to-day schedule at the level of granularity required for project success
Serve as the primary point of contact for strategic customers and partners.
Build trusted relationships with customer executives and key stakeholders.
Lead cross-functional Integrated Project Team to drive execution plans that ensure customer commitments are delivered on time and with high quality.
Manage executive escalations and coordinate rapid resolution across internal teams.
Strategic Project Management & Business results
Lead critical business initiatives sponsored by the CVP & GM and senior leadership team.
Develop program strategies, roadmaps, governance models, and operating rhythms.
Translate business objectives into actionable workstreams and measurable outcomes.
Establish clear accountability and alignment across engineering, product, sales, operations, marketing, and support organizations.
Lead proposal process for new commercial projects
defining and delivering financial results (on-time revenue, margin, cash flow) on project 
Executive Communications & Governance
Create executive-ready status reports, business reviews, and decision frameworks.
Provide leadership with clear visibility into milestones, risks, dependencies, and program health.
Facilitate executive steering committees and customer review meetings.
Drive decision-making through data-driven analysis and recommendations.
Cross-Functional Leadership
Influence teams across organizational boundaries without direct reporting authority.
Align competing priorities and negotiate solutions that support customer and business outcomes.
Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and execution excellence.
Identify opportunities for process improvement and operational scale.
Risk & Issues Management
Proactively identify program risks, resource constraints, and execution challenges.
Develop mitigation plans and drive timely resolution.
Manage complex dependencies across internal and external stakeholders.
Ensure lessons learned are captured and applied across future initiatives.

YOU MUST HAVE:

Bachelor's degree in technical field
15+ years of program management on complex hardware centric programs
Ability to travel >50%, including international
Due to Contractual requirements, must be a U.S. Person defined as, U.S. citizen permanent resident or green card holder, workers granted asylum or refugee status.
Due to national security requirements imposed by the U.S. Government, candidates for this position must not be a People's Republic of China national or Russian national unless the candidate is also a U.S. citizen.

WE VALUE:

Demonstrated success building campaign-planning processes, integrated campaign calendars, and orchestration mechanisms across multiple teams and channels.
Strong experience designing both market-shaping demand-generation programs and targeted lead-generation motions for enterprise or government-oriented buying environments.
Experience owning campaign briefs, launch-planning mechanics, channel-mix decisions, and integrated sequencing across complex marketing programs.
Demonstrated ability to apply AI-enabled workflows to accelerate campaign planning, brief creation, asset adaptation, execution coordination, and performance analysis across cross-functional teams.
Ability to personally orchestrate campaigns while also building a repeatable operating model for others to follow.
Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to coordinate marketing, sales, regional, and partner-facing stakeholders without direct control over all resources.
Strong judgment in balancing speed, rigor, and practicality in campaign planning and execution.
Tangible experience using AI-powered tools and automation to improve efficiency, generate insights, and enhance execution across marketing and/or GTM workflows.
Experience in enterprise, government, deep-tech, or other complex B2B environments with long or high-consideration buying cycles.
Familiarity with ABM-oriented campaign systems and integrated planning models.
Experience working effectively before full marketing automation maturity is in place.
Experience using AI-enabled workflows to accelerate campaign development, asset adaptation, execution planning, and cross-functional coordination in complex marketing environments.
Strong instincts for combining human judgment with automation to improve campaign speed, consistency, and orchestration without weakening governance or message quality.
Comfort using a mix of AI-enabled workflows, external partners, contractors, and agencies to extend campaign execution capacity efficiently.