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Date Posted:
2025-04-01
Country:
United States of America
Location:
VA111: 1300 N 17th Street, Arlington 1300 North 17th Street Suite 400, Arlington, VA, 22209 USA
Position Role Type:
Hybrid
Senior Technical Program Manager – P5
For over 70 years, Raytheon BBN Technologies has solved real-world problems through research, exploration, development, and prototyping. We collaborate with top technical talent to pioneer transformative solutions. The Network & Cyber Technologies (NCT) team leverages math, engineering, and physics to tackle customer challenges in communications, RF, and cyber domains. We specialize in information exchange, protection, and exploitation.
This is a position for Program Manager candidates with research and development (R&D) program management experience. In this role, you will provide key program management support enabling NCT technical staff to deliver innovative solutions to customers in the Cyber, Electronic Warfare, Radio Frequency, and Networking domains. You will coordinate resources, track progress, facilitate collaboration, and ensure on-time delivery within budget. Your leadership and organizational skills will empower our engineers and scientists to push boundaries and meet critical customer needs.
What you will do:
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Coordinate extensively across technical and functional support staff to enable on-time, on-budget delivery.
Translate customer needs and advise technical experts on optimal solutions.
Monitor spending, staffing, schedules, contracts, purchases, and deliverables.
Manage schedules, resources, and budgets to ensure execution within cost targets.
Identify, track, and escalate program risks and issues for mitigation.
Facilitate collaboration through clear communication and information sharing.
Employ PM best practices and tools to maintain alignment across complex projects.
Deliver regular project updates and insights to stakeholders and leadership.
Lead review meetings, inform decision making, and coordinate across project interdependencies.
Drive achievement of milestones through resource planning and progress tracking.
Manage a team of technical staff members to include work or project assignments, mentoring, and overall performance.
What you will gain:
Exposure to cutting-edge technical work and innovative research.
Collaborate with a motivated, engaged team of experts pushing boundaries.
Develop hands-on experience managing complex defense projects.
Build program management skills through resource coordination, scheduling, budget oversight.
Gain visibility into the end-to-end program lifecycle from concept to delivery.
Interact closely with customers to understand emerging capability needs.
Contribute to developing solutions that give warfighters a decisive technology edge.
Strengthen communication, organization, and leadership skills.
Advance your career as a program management professional working with pioneering technologies.
Qualifications You Must Have
A Bachelor’s degree in a related major and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years’ experience.
Experience in writing competitive proposals for Government funding through BAA opportunities and executing as a Program Manager on Government-funded contracts.
Experience working for a Government R&D Contractor.
Experience planning, staffing, and tracking multi-person projects.
Experience managing subcontractors and consultants.
Expertise in creating technical documents and presentations using Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Experience in research and development of Cyber, EW, RF or Networking capabilities.
Prior experience managing subcontractors.
Collaborative team player passionate about technology.
Skilled at project scheduling, reporting, and stakeholder management.
Analytical thinker able to synthesize data across multiple programs and conflicting priorities.
People management experience, to include performance, work assignments, career guidance and mentoring.
Position may require some amount of overnight travel.
U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position needs an active U.S. Security Clearance on day-one of employment.
Active and transferable Secret U.S. government security clearance is required prior to start date.
Qualifications We Prefer - Familiar with all, Expert in some
Ability to obtain a TS security clearance
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
Excellent communication and relationship building skills.
Initiates, prioritizes, and manages multiple tasks effectively.
Resourceful problem-solver able to identify and mitigate issues.
Eager learner focused on continuous Program Management skills development.
What We Offer
RTX BBN offers a robust total rewards package with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement, and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs. Some of the benefits we offer include parental (including paternal) leave, flexible work schedules, achievement awards, educational assistance and child/adult backup care.
• Relocation Assistance available
• This position is a hybrid working situation based at our Cambridge, MA or Arlington VA or Columbia MD headquarters
To help you achieve your goals, BBN will provide:
A strong leadership team well-versed in government R&D.
A collaborative and collegial environment to push state-of-the-art research.
A diverse and technically competent pool of research scientists who are willing to mentor, listen, and help you refine your research vision and goals.
Business development, programmatic, contracting, finance, and HR support.
Access, through RTX, to opportunities that help transition your research and ultimately see it fielded.
RTX Corporation is an Aerospace and Defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 185,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, VA.
The salary range for this role is 137,000 USD - 275,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels.
RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.
Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.
Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.
This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.
RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.
RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.
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