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[Remote] Senior Technical Program Manager

🌍 Remote · United States 💼 Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chainguard is the trusted source for open source, delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of open source software. The Senior Technical Program Manager will bring structure and visibility to the security organization by coordinating priorities, dependencies, workflows, reporting, and execution across security and broader cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Own workflow, project tracking, and dependency management across the three security teams, making it clear what’s on track, what’s at risk, and what downstream impact changes may have
  • Build and maintain dashboards and reporting that give company leadership a clear, durable view of security risk, exposure, and program health
  • Partner closely with your primary security team on day-to-day execution while supporting the other two teams as priorities and capacity allow
  • Make and communicate prioritization decisions when demand exceeds the security organization’s capacity — including finding alternatives and helping stakeholders understand trade-offs, rather than simply saying no
  • Design and implement lightweight processes that help security teams operate more effectively without creating unnecessary overhead for engineers
  • Work directly with product, engineering, and other partner teams to establish clear, effective ways of working with security
  • As the role grows, extend your impact beyond security by helping shape broader company processes, including how Chainguard approaches planning, prioritization, and cross-functional execution

Skills

  • 5+ years of experience in program management, technical program management, or operations roles
  • Meaningful experience in a broad, cross-functional operations or program management role, supporting many stakeholders across an organization rather than working within a single, self-contained team
  • Security experience is a plus, but not required
  • A track record of building processes and exercising sound judgment in ambiguous environments, rather than defaulting to standard frameworks or playbooks
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to act as a strategic and consultative partner across functions
  • Experience managing competing priorities and communicating trade-offs, including difficult prioritization decisions, clearly and thoughtfully
  • Comfort working in a fast-moving, scaling environment where processes are still being built and refined
  • US, East Coast Preferred

Benefits

  • Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
  • Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options.
  • 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
  • ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
  • 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.

Company Overview

  • Chainguard is a cloud-native development platform that provides low-to-zero CVE container images for building and running applications. It was founded in 2021, and is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.chainguard.dev.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Chainguard has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 1 in 2024, 2 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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