Top Program Manager Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Leads federal programs and task-order pursuits across USACE, NAVFAC, AFCEC, and DoD portfolios. Manages client relationships, capture strategies, proposals, multidisciplinary teams, teaming partners, contract administration, design coordination, and program delivery. Requires extensive federal and DoD experience, architectural licensure, knowledge of FAR/DFARS and IDIQ contracting, and the ability to manage major design and construction programs. The role is based in the US West and requires travel up to 30%.

Lead end-to-end program management for design initiatives and large product launches. Partner with design, engineering, product marketing, and business leaders to align scope, timelines, resources, and deliverables. Establish operating rhythms, manage risks, resolve cross-functional obstacles, and drive operational improvements that enable scalable, high-quality product design delivery.

Manage a large-scale Naval Enterprise Network transformation program, overseeing portfolios, projects, governance, budgets, contracts, schedules, risks, change control, staffing, and service delivery. Serve as the primary customer contact, coordinate technical and geographically dispersed teams, present status to executives, drive issue resolution, support continuous improvement, and lead program launches. The role requires active Secret clearance, government services experience, organizational change management, and program management expertise.

Leads strategic and operational management across multidisciplinary research, education, technology, and translational initiatives. Develops roadmaps, project plans, milestones, budgets, workflows, and accountability systems; coordinates teams and external partners; monitors risks, resources, deliverables, and funding requirements; resolves implementation barriers; supports partnerships, reporting, communications, and program evaluation. Serves as a central coordination partner to the Director within an academic neuroscience and dyslexia research environment.

Own strategic partner relationships from onboarding through ongoing delivery, serving as the primary point of contact and internal advocate. Lead cross-functional implementations, track commitments, translate partner needs into product and engineering requirements, support roadmap planning, manage escalations, monitor account health, and identify growth opportunities. Establish partner cadences, scalable processes, and centralized request tracking while ensuring partners are prepared to adopt new features.

Own strategic partner relationships, onboarding, implementation, account health, escalations, and recurring partner cadences. Translate partner needs into product and engineering requirements, influence roadmap priorities, and ensure commitments are delivered. Build a scalable partner management function, including request tracking, operating cadences, onboarding processes, and implementation playbooks. Collaborate across Sales, Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Commercial teams to support partner retention, growth, and successful feature adoption.

Drive execution and adoption of Value Acceleration Services for the AI Business Solutions portfolio. Translate strategy into scalable programs, enable field and sellers, align cross-functional stakeholders, design adoption initiatives, track performance with data-driven insights, and continuously optimize the portfolio to accelerate customer value and growth.

Leads strategic, cross-functional security programs with executive visibility and complex dependencies. Establishes standardized program-management practices, roadmaps, metrics, risk management, decision processes, and reporting across the Global Security Office. Drives alignment, resolves trade-offs, improves execution through automation and AI-enabled workflows, and connects security initiatives to company goals, customer trust, resilience, and business outcomes.

Leads delivery of a large, multi-project federal program valued above $150M, overseeing finances, contract performance, staffing, schedules, risks, compliance, and performance metrics. Coordinates cross-functional teams and serves as the primary agency stakeholder contact. The role also supports client satisfaction, program growth, proposal development, and strategic partnerships while ensuring delivery aligns with mission objectives and contract requirements.

Manages large-scale transformational technology programs and portfolios, including governance, delivery, budgets, forecasting, procurement, staffing, risks, contracts, and executive reporting. Leads cross-functional and global teams, oversees program financials and customer satisfaction, coordinates statements of work, drives issue resolution, and mentors project managers. Requires experience managing programs valued at $25 million or more and distributed teams of at least 50 people.

Lead the design, implementation, and management of Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program offerings, designations, and specializations with a focus on security. Coordinate cross-functional teams and partner ecosystems, develop strategies and messaging, analyze market opportunities, measure outcomes, manage risks, and improve partner engagement, growth, adoption, and experience.

Own cross-functional Azure programs that improve customer demand understanding, capacity planning, decision-making, and resource delivery. Analyze customer and operational data, define requirements, evaluate tradeoffs, and drive implementation. Design scalable processes, automation, reporting, governance, and workflows that reduce manual effort and improve execution. Partner with engineering, product, finance, capacity management, and operations teams to resolve recurring challenges and deliver measurable customer and business outcomes.

Own cross-functional technical programs supporting Customer Success, coordinating Product, Engineering, NOC, and Operations. Validate customer-focused releases, configurations, and integrations; lead change management, enablement, communications, and training; triage customer-impacting technical issues; maintain PMO trackers, status reports, and risk logs; and advise leadership on priorities and customer needs.

Own and scale digital customer success programs across onboarding, activation, adoption, and retention. Design personalized email, in-app, education, community, and live-learning experiences using customer data, behavioral triggers, automation, and AI. Partner cross-functionally with Customer Success, Product, Marketing, Education, Community, Data, and Operations; define success metrics, analyze program performance, optimize outcomes, and drive adoption of new programs.

Owns strategic planning, governance, prioritization, risk management, and execution across a portfolio of Superintelligence Lab programs. The role establishes phase-gate standards, manages change, tracks portfolio health through dashboards and metrics, resolves blockers, advises cross-functional teams, and communicates progress to executives. It requires strong technical program management experience, Jira proficiency, Agile and SDLC knowledge, and the ability to apply AI technologies to improve business outcomes.

Coordinate cross-functional initiatives within the PMO by maintaining project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, dashboards, and status reporting. Support governance meetings, implementation readiness, vendor coordination, change control, communications, and leadership updates. The role promotes accountability, escalates delivery risks, improves PMO processes, and leads medium-sized data governance projects while mentoring junior team members.

Leads cross-functional business programs from design through delivery and ongoing operations. Establishes governance, goals, success measures, workflows, policies, and reporting; manages budgets, resources, risks, and performance metrics. Partners with executives and functional teams to drive compliance, process improvement, change adoption, and value realization. Develops business requirements, test plans, training materials, and program documentation while coordinating projects, stakeholder communications, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Manages high-priority customer and executive escalations from intake through resolution across global regions. Coordinates cross-functional teams, communicates with internal and external stakeholders, reviews executive-ready documentation, identifies operational gaps, and supports process improvements. Participates in a 24/7 on-call rotation and manages support agents through coaching, performance expectations, and professional development.

Lead and mentor Operations Program Managers overseeing hardware programs from NPI through sustaining and mass production. Drive supply chain readiness, factory operations, capacity planning, contract manufacturer relationships, quality, yield, throughput, cost, risk mitigation, and multi-million-dollar capital investments. Partner with executive leadership across engineering, product, sourcing, planning, retail, and finance while managing operational budgets and global manufacturing strategy.

Owns a strategic Virtual First technology workstream focused on AI enablement, knowledge management, tool optimization, automation, and modern ways of working. Leads organizational research, pilots, experiments, and a portfolio of cross-functional programs from scoping through adoption. Translates quantitative and qualitative findings into recommendations, operating models, and measurable improvements in employee effectiveness, tool confidence, and technology adoption.

Owns Vanta’s global revenue new-hire bootcamp and post-bootcamp learning journeys through the first 90 days. Responsibilities include planning and facilitating live training, developing onboarding curriculum, coordinating subject matter experts and Field Enablement, tracking ramp and productivity metrics, improving programs based on feedback and performance data, and partnering cross-functionally across Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, RevOps, and People.

Leads the Battery System software program for embedded C++ BMS and Ground Charging software, model-based controls, Scrum execution, DO-178C certification, HIL verification, release activities, and integrated technical roadmaps. Coordinates cross-functional hardware, electrical, software, test, certification, and FAA stakeholders while managing schedules, dependencies, risks, metrics, and safe-for-flight delivery.

Own the International Research Olympiad’s growth and daily operations. Responsibilities include recruiting and onboarding mentors, developing school and organizational partnerships, coordinating the full competition cycle, managing international in-person Finals logistics, supporting students and stakeholders, coordinating the Board of Advisors, maintaining participant data, and producing dashboards and reports on registrations, revenue, and partner performance.

Leads customer and student experience initiatives by developing CX strategies, optimizing enterprise applications and processes, mapping customer journeys, analyzing feedback and performance data, and coordinating cross-functional improvements. The role manages project goals, stakeholder engagement, change management, process enhancements, and implementation of AI-enabled customer support and digital care capabilities.

Own end-to-end customer experience initiatives, including AI automation, CX tooling, workflow improvements, measurement, and dashboard development. Analyze customer friction and performance metrics, partner with Product, Engineering, Data, and Operations teams, and implement scalable solutions that improve agent efficiency and customer outcomes.