Senior Program Manager, Shipping
eBay
Program Manager
Avathon
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Austin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Serve as the primary point of contact for customers, stakeholders, and internal team.
- Lead planning, execution, and delivery of assigned programs to ensure performance, cost, and schedule objectives are met.
- Develop and manage program schedules, milestones, budgets, and reporting requirements.
- Coordinate across engineering, product, and operations teams to deliver program outcomes.
- Ensure compliance with all contractual, security, and regulatory requirements.
- Support capture and proposal efforts by providing programmatic expertise, execution strategies, and customer insights.
- Build and maintain strong customer (DoD, Government, and Commercial) relationships to expand Avathon’s presence and opportunities.
- Prepare and deliver regular status reports, briefings, and metrics to customers and internal leadership.
- Identify and mitigate risks to ensure not only successful execution, but contract expansion and/or renewal.
- Provide input to capture and proposal efforts with programmatic expertise
- Travel to customer sites as needed to support program execution
Requirements
- US Citizenship Required
- Have a minimum of 3-5 years of project/program management experience within the defense and government industry, ideally within the technology sector.
- Have excellent presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Strong understanding of government acquisition processes and contract management (FAR/DFARS, OTA, SBIR, etc.)
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities.
- Active DoD Secret Clearance or the ability to obtain and maintain one.
- Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project proficiency
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
project managementprogram managementbudget managementschedule managementrisk managementcontract managementgovernment acquisition processes
Soft skills
communication skillspresentation skillsinterpersonal skillsleadershipcustomer relationship managementorganizational skills
Certifications
DoD Secret Clearance
