Program Manager

Job ID: 2612364

Location: San Diego, CA, US

Date Posted: 2026-05-08

Category: Program Management

Subcategory: Program Mgmt

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes - 25% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE

Description

SAIC 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.

JOB DUTIES:

• Lead Strategic Execution: Serve as the Program Manager, driving program schedules, acquisition strategies, contracting, resource allocation, and budgeting to achieve mission objectives.

• Government-Contractor Integration: Foster clear and effective communication across cross-functional teams, including government sponsors, suppliers, and internal SAIC functions, for seamless integration.

• Systems Engineering and Testing: Oversee performance refinement, integration challenges, testing, reliability evaluations, and sustainment solutions.

• Risk and Cost Management: Identify program risks, cost drivers, and mitigation strategies to ensure successful execution of cost-reimbursable contract requirements.

• Innovation 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.

• Assess and Enhance Programs: Requirements Definition, Strategic Planning, and Stakeholder Analysis.

• Ensure contract deliverables are submitted on a timeline basis.

• Responsible for all corporate financial and technical reviews of program performance.

Qualifications

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelors and eighteen (18) years or more of related experience; Masters and sixteen (16) years or more experience; PhD or JD and thirteen (13) years or more experience.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Must have an Active TS/SCI clearance to start

• Certifications: PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification Or education and equivalent experience.

• SAFE / Agile Certification.

• Hands-on experience with U.S. Government programs, particularly with Department of Defense (DoD) / Department of War (DoW) projects.

• 10 or more years’ experience in working in the IC community (NSA, NGA etc)
• Formulation, understanding and development of Mission threads in support of theater effects.
• Working knowledge of IO, ISR and MPTE systems, data flows and kill chain integration.
• Experience with PMW 120 Program of Record and projects.
• Working knowledge of SoS and FoS integration for complex systems

• Working knowledge of the next generation shipboard electronic warfare system and the unique challenges it has encountered.

• Understanding of how digital modeling and human systems integration contribute to mission engineering and mission thread development.

• Working knowledge with implementation and execution of strategic/cultural transformation initiatives.

• Understanding of cost modeling, reliability analysis, and sustainment strategies for defense systems.

• PEO C4I Echelon II acquisition experience

DESIRED EXPERIENCE:

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  Background 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.