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The successful candidate will be comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where requirements, acquisition strategies, contracting mechanisms, and program structures may not yet be fully defined.\nIn the near term, the role will focus heavily on supporting and leading major RFI/RFP/RFQ responses, proposals, white papers, and strategic partner opportunities. As opportunities transition to contract award, the Program Manager will assume increasing responsibility for program execution, delivery, customer/partner coordination, risk management, and cross-functional execution.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\nCapture & Proposal Development\nPartner with Business Development to develop and execute responses to RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, tenders, and other government and commercial opportunities.\nLead or support development of proposals, white papers, management approaches, statements of work, schedules, compliance matrices, and other customer-facing materials.\nTranslate customer requirements into executable program approaches, including scope, schedule, milestones, deliverables, resources, risks, assumptions, and dependencies.\nCoordinate inputs from Engineering, Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, and other functions.\nWork with technical teams to develop credible technical approaches, estimates, schedules, and commitments.\nSupport opportunity shaping through customer engagements, requirements development, solution development, demonstrations, and acquisition strategy discussions.\nIdentify and communicate programmatic and execution risks associated with prospective opportunities.\nPartner & Customer Engagement\nServe as a key programmatic interface with government customers, resellers, prime contractors, and strategic partners.\nSupport domestic and international partners through capture, proposal development, contracting, delivery planning, and program execution.\nEstablish clear roles, responsibilities, schedules, deliverables, and communication mechanisms across Ghost and external organizations.\nCoordinate Ghost's internal resources and commitments in support of partner-led programs.\nProgram Execution\nLead assigned programs from contract award through delivery, acceptance, training, fielding, and sustainment as required.\nManage program scope, cost, schedule, resources, risks, dependencies, and contractual/customer deliverables.\nEstablish and maintain program schedules, milestones, action-item tracking, risk and issue registers, and other program-management artifacts.\nCoordinate cross-functional execution and drive accountability for commitments.\nMaintain regular communication with customers, partners, and leadership regarding program status, risks, issues, and decisions.\nIdentify potential delays or execution issues and develop mitigation and recovery plans.\nSupport transition from capture and proposal through contract award and execution, ensuring commitments made during the proposal process are understood and actionable by the execution team.\nQUALIFICATIONS\n5+ years of experience in government, military, defense, national security, aerospace, robotics, technology, critical infrastructure, or a related industry.\nProven experience managing complex, cross-functional programs, projects, proposals, or customer engagements.\nDemonstrated experience developing or supporting government proposals, RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, tenders, white papers, or similar acquisition responses.\nStrong ability to translate complex requirements and diverse stakeholder inputs into clear, executable plans and customer-facing deliverables.\nExperience working with government customers, military organizations, prime contractors, resellers, or strategic partners.\nAbility to operate effectively in ambiguous, rapidly changing environments and drive execution with limited direction.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, including strong proposal-writing and editing abilities.\nStrong organizational, analytical, planning, and problem-solving skills.\nAbility to build effective relationships across technical, business, customer, and executive stakeholders.\nExperience with defense acquisition, government contracting, or government program management strongly preferred.\nExperience with robotics, autonomous systems, unmanned systems, defense technology, or related technical domains strongly preferred.\nPMP or other recognized program/project management certification is preferred.\nRequirements\nU.S. citizenship required.\nMust be able to pass a standard employment background check.\nAbility to obtain security clearances based on customer and program requirements.\nProficiency with Microsoft Office / Microsoft 365 and common program-management and collaboration tools.\nAbility to travel domestically and internationally as required for customers, partners, proposals, demonstrations, testing, delivery, and program activities.\nAbility to travel on short notice and for periods ranging from a few days to more than a week.\nEDUCATION\nBachelor's degree in business, engineering, project/program management, national security, a technical discipline, or related field. Equivalent professional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.\nLOCATION & TRAVEL\nPhiladelphia, PA preferred. Remote or hybrid arrangements may be considered for an exceptional candidate, with regular travel to Ghost facilities, customers, partners, and other program locations as required.\nApproximately 25-40% travel, depending on program and business requirements.\nWHAT WE OFFER\nCompetitive base salary, full benefits, and a highly motivating equity incentive package. 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