{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"03317eb5a2d93b4feef89155","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/03317eb5a2d93b4feef89155","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/03317eb5a2d93b4feef89155","title":"Program Manager","description":"Job ID: 2614599\nLocation: San Diego, CA, US\nDate Posted: 2026-07-15\nCategory: Program Management\nSubcategory: Program Mgmt\nSchedule: Full-Time\nShift: Day Job\nTravel: Yes - 25% of the time\nMinimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI\nClearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None\nPotential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE\n\nDescription\nSAIC is seeking an experienced and innovative Program Manager (PM) to oversee and execute a large-scale Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) program supporting the U.S. Navy and other strategic government sponsors. This position involves managing a combination of cost-reimbursable contracts for the rapid development, proof of concept, and prototyping, and of cutting-edge adaptive warfare technologies for IO, ISR, METOC and MPTE programs. As the PM for PMW 120, you will ensure program alignment with customer objectives by delivering results on time, on budget, and exceeding expectations.\nThe program focuses on battlespace awareness and Information Warfare capabilities and adaptive warfare systems designed to provide flexible, cost-effective solutions for various asset types and modalities. It supports accelerated development and fielding of various technologies to address emergent warfighter requirements. The PM will play a critical role in driving program success by managing resource allocation, refining requirements, mitigating risks, overseeing production lines, and fostering collaboration.\nThis role is located in San Diego, CA and requires you to be on government site daily. Must be able to travel up to 25% of the time.\nJOB DUTIES:\nLead Strategic Execution: Serve as the Program Manager, driving program schedules, acquisition strategies, contracting, resource allocation, and budgeting to achieve mission objectives.\nGovernment-Contractor Integration: Foster clear and effective communication across cross-functional teams, including government sponsors, suppliers, and internal SAIC functions, for seamless integration.\nSystems Engineering and Testing: Oversee performance refinement, integration challenges, testing, reliability evaluations, and sustainment solutions.\nRisk and Cost Management: Identify program risks, cost drivers, and mitigation strategies to ensure successful execution of cost-reimbursable contract requirements.\nInnovation Validation: Support customer objectives by validating analytical models, exploring novel uses of fielded technologies, and improving operational employment to meet customer requirements and strategic initiatives.\nAssess and Enhance Programs: Requirements Definition, Strategic Planning, and Stakeholder Analysis.\nEnsure contract deliverables are submitted on a timeline basis.\nResponsible for all corporate financial and technical reviews of program performance.\nQualifications\nREQUIREMENTS:\nEducation:\nBachelors and eighteen (18) years or more of related experience; Masters and sixteen (16) years or more experience.\nClearance:\nMust be a U.S. Citizen.\nMust have an Active TS/SCI clearance to start.\nCertifications:\nPMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification Or education and equivalent experience.\nAFE / Agile Certification.\nExperience:\nHands-on experience with U.S. Government programs, particularly with Department of Defense (DoD)/ Department of War (DoW) projects.\n10 or more years’ experience in working in the IC community (NSA, NGA etc.).\nFormulation, understanding and development of Mission threads in support of theater effects.\nWorking knowledge of IO, ISR and MPTE systems, data flows and kill chain integration.\nExperience with PMW 120 Program of Record and projects.\nWorking knowledge of SoS and FoS integration for complex systems.\nWorking knowledge of the next generation shipboard electronic warfare system and the unique challenges it has encountered.\nUnderstanding of how digital modeling and human systems integration contribute to mission engineering and mission thread development.\nWorking knowledge with implementation and execution of strategic/cultural transformation initiatives.\nUnderstanding of cost modeling, reliability analysis, and sustainment strategies for defense systems.\nPEO C4I Echelon II acquisition experience.\nDESIRED EXPERIENCE:\nBackground in Battlespace Awareness and Information Operations Warfare capabilities IO, ISR, METOC and MPTE mission systems and programs to include: Distributed Operations, Ship’s Signal Exploitation Equipment Family of Systems (SSEE FoS), Spectral, Horizon, Distributed Common Ground System-Navy Family of Systems (DCGS-N FoS), Naval Integrated Tactical Environmental System Next Generation (NITES-Next), Littoral Battlespace Sensing - Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (LBS-UUV FoS), Real Time Spectrum Operations, Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare /Integrated Fires (EMW IF), Tactical Edge Targeting and Mission Planning and Theater Effects.\nTarget salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. 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This position involves managing a combination of cost-reimbursable contracts for the rapid development, proof of concept, and prototyping, and of cutting-edge adaptive warfare technologies for IO, ISR, METOC and MPTE programs. As the PM for PMW 120, you will ensure program alignment with customer objectives by delivering results on time, on budget, and exceeding expectations.\nThe program focuses on battlespace awareness and Information Warfare capabilities and adaptive warfare systems designed to provide flexible, cost-effective solutions for various asset types and modalities. It supports accelerated development and fielding of various technologies to address emergent warfighter requirements. The PM will play a critical role in driving program success by managing resource allocation, refining requirements, mitigating risks, overseeing production lines, and fostering collaboration.\nThis role is located in San Diego, CA and requires you to be on government site daily. Must be able to travel up to 25% of the time.\nJOB DUTIES:\nLead Strategic Execution: Serve as the Program Manager, driving program schedules, acquisition strategies, contracting, resource allocation, and budgeting to achieve mission objectives.\nGovernment-Contractor Integration: Foster clear and effective communication across cross-functional teams, including government sponsors, suppliers, and internal SAIC functions, for seamless integration.\nSystems Engineering and Testing: Oversee performance refinement, integration challenges, testing, reliability evaluations, and sustainment solutions.\nRisk and Cost Management: Identify program risks, cost drivers, and mitigation strategies to ensure successful execution of cost-reimbursable contract requirements.\nInnovation Validation: Support customer objectives by validating analytical models, exploring novel uses of fielded technologies, and improving operational employment to meet customer requirements and strategic initiatives.\nAssess and Enhance Programs: Requirements Definition, Strategic Planning, and Stakeholder Analysis.\nEnsure contract deliverables are submitted on a timeline basis.\nResponsible for all corporate financial and technical reviews of program performance.\nQualifications\nREQUIREMENTS:\nEducation:\nBachelors and eighteen (18) years or more of related experience; Masters and sixteen (16) years or more experience.\nClearance:\nMust be a U.S. Citizen.\nMust have an Active TS/SCI clearance to start.\nCertifications:\nPMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification Or education and equivalent experience.\nAFE / Agile Certification.\nExperience:\nHands-on experience with U.S. Government programs, particularly with Department of Defense (DoD)/ Department of War (DoW) projects.\n10 or more years’ experience in working in the IC community (NSA, NGA etc.).\nFormulation, understanding and development of Mission threads in support of theater effects.\nWorking knowledge of IO, ISR and MPTE systems, data flows and kill chain integration.\nExperience with PMW 120 Program of Record and projects.\nWorking knowledge of SoS and FoS integration for complex systems.\nWorking knowledge of the next generation shipboard electronic warfare system and the unique challenges it has encountered.\nUnderstanding of how digital modeling and human systems integration contribute to mission engineering and mission thread development.\nWorking knowledge with implementation and execution of strategic/cultural transformation initiatives.\nUnderstanding of cost modeling, reliability analysis, and sustainment strategies for defense systems.\nPEO C4I Echelon II acquisition experience.\nDESIRED EXPERIENCE:\nBackground in Battlespace Awareness and Information Operations Warfare capabilities IO, ISR, METOC and MPTE mission systems and programs to include: Distributed Operations, Ship’s Signal Exploitation Equipment Family of Systems (SSEE FoS), Spectral, Horizon, Distributed Common Ground System-Navy Family of Systems (DCGS-N FoS), Naval Integrated Tactical Environmental System Next Generation (NITES-Next), Littoral Battlespace Sensing - Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (LBS-UUV FoS), Real Time Spectrum Operations, Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare /Integrated Fires (EMW IF), Tactical Edge Targeting and Mission Planning and Theater Effects.\nTarget salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. 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