Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chainguard provides hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of open source software. The company is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to bring structure and visibility to security operations by coordinating priorities, dependencies, workflows, and execution across Product Security, Cyber Resiliency, and Governance & Trust. The role will also build reporting infrastructure and support broader company-wide planning and cross-functional execution processes.

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. More important is the ability to operate effectively in a horizontal role with a large and diverse stakeholder group
• * 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.
• 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.

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