Deputy Program Manager - SOCOM

What you'd do

• Partner with Growth to translate SOCOM opportunities and customer demand into clear, defensible scope and schedules.
• Support proposal inputs, including scope, statements of work, and basis of estimate, ensuring what we propose is technically grounded, executable, and aligned to strategic, engineering, and timeline realities.
• Build and maintain work breakdown structures and execution schedules that connect growth commitments to engineering and production reality.
• Support the Program Manager across all five process groups (initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & control, and closeout) on one or more concurrent programs.
• Track schedules, requirements, budgets, deliverables, and integration milestones, including Government- and Contractor-Furnished Equipment (GFE/CFE).
• Coordinate design, build, on-water testing, and readiness activities to meet contract milestones, and de-risk critical path items.
• Maintain configuration and documentation compliance across all program phases.
• Serve as a day-to-day point of contact across Engineering, Production, Quality, and Training, communicating objectives, milestones, and changes so everyone knows what they own and when.
• Lead recurring coordination meetings to keep execution aligned to the delivery schedule.
• Engage confidently in technical discussions and interpret engineering documentation (BOMs, CAD, wire diagrams) to resolve issues and keep teams aligned.

What they want

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Naval Architecture, Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field.
• 5+ years in program management, preferably in a defense, engineering, or technical environment, including support to SOF or SOCOM programs.
• Familiarity with DoD program requirements, government contracting, and recognized program management standards.
• Working knowledge of maritime and/or autonomous systems, with the ability to read technical documentation and engage credibly with engineers.
• 3+ years working across software-based toolsets, including MS Project, the MS Office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), Confluence, and communicating with cross functional teams via Slack and other applications.
• A bias for action and ownership in a fast-paced, high-trust, rapidly growing environment.
• Willingness to travel up to 35% of the time.
• Secret security clearance eligibility required, active preferred.

About Saronic · Program Management

Programs partners closely with Growth, Engineering, Production, Procurement, Software, and Product teams to define scope, align resources, and manage cost, schedule, and risk. It's our collective, team-driven approach that powers execution to meet and exceed the expectations of our growing customer base.