{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"50d29da42aac45fbaab5d2e8","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/50d29da42aac45fbaab5d2e8","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/50d29da42aac45fbaab5d2e8","title":"Program Manager","description":"Job ID: 2613936\nLocation: El Segundo, CA, US\nDate Posted: 2026-06-24\nCategory: Program Management\nSubcategory: Project Analyst\nSchedule: Full-Time\nShift: Day Job\nTravel: Yes - 25% of the time\nMinimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI\nClearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: TS/SCI with Poly\nPotential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE\n\nDescription\nSAIC’s Horizon 2 program is seeking a highly skilled and dynamic Program Manager to lead a complex systems acquisition and perform project management within the Space Combat Power systems portfolio. This role requires extensive expertise in government weapon systems acquisition, program management, strategic planning, and program integration to support the U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC). This position is located in El Segundo, CA.\nYou will serve as a critical embedded member of the Government applying advanced project management principles to shape and deliver the next generation capability. The role emphasizes leveraging tailored, rapid acquisition frameworks while integrating space, ground, and mission segments. Your management expertise will be instrumental in driving program planning, risk mitigation, financial oversight, and execution excellence in alignment with the evolving Warfighting Acquisition System (WAS) philosophy.\nFun stuff you will do on the job:\nSupport the Government Program Manager guiding acquisition strategies, program schedules, resource allocation, contracting actions, and budgeting to align with mission objectives and priorities.\nOversee all aspects of program execution, including delivery milestones, risk management, testing, system integration, and contractor management.\nDrive cross-functional communication to ensure seamless integration of government and contractor teams across space, ground, and communication segments.\nOrganize and execute periodic technical interchange meetings (TIMs) and staff meetings to track progress, identify risks, and course-correct as necessary.\nApply advanced configuration and change management practices to ensure consistency and traceability across all program artifacts, including Interface Control Documents (ICDs), Performance Goals, and milestones.\nEvaluate contractor system designs and milestone reviews, providing timely assessments of technical progress, risks, and the ability to achieve mission requirements.\nManage independent technical and programmatic reviews to validate system effectiveness.\nProvide expert guidance on funding commitments, obligations, and expenditures, ensuring effective utilization of resources with a focus on on-time project delivery.\nAdvocate for deliberate risk-taking, speed in delivery execution, and adherence to the Warfighting Acquisition System (WAS) for rapid capability fielding.\nQualifications\nThis is you:\nBachelors and fifteen (15) years or more of related experience; Masters and thirteen (13) years or more experience.\nMust have an in-scope security background investigation (T5 or SSBI), adjudicated for SCI eligibility and enrolled in the Continuous Evaluation program (if applicable).\nMust be willing to be nominated for access to Sensitive Compartment Information and Special Access Programs and willing to consent to a Polygraph examination.\nProgram Management or leadership experience on complex systems.\nDemonstrated leadership skills in the Aerospace or DoD working across space, ground segment organizations to coordinate and identify system integration requirements that ensure end-to-end mission performance requirements are met.\nExperience serving as a team, project or program manager on performance-based contracts for the U.S. Government, experience developing cost and schedule deliverables and managing to baseline costs and schedules to include the identification and management of risks, demonstrated experience working with Air Force/DoD customers in an acquisition environment, with space and/or ground systems.\nExperience writing and delivering documents and briefings.\nDemonstrated interpersonal skills to enable working, interfacing, and interrelating with diverse personnel and dynamic teams.\nTarget salary range: $200,001 - $240,000. 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This role requires extensive expertise in government weapon systems acquisition, program management, strategic planning, and program integration to support the U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC). This position is located in El Segundo, CA.\nYou will serve as a critical embedded member of the Government applying advanced project management principles to shape and deliver the next generation capability. The role emphasizes leveraging tailored, rapid acquisition frameworks while integrating space, ground, and mission segments. 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