Program Director

Who we are:

Raft (https://goraft.tech) is a customer-obsessed non-traditional small business with a purposeful focus on Distributed Data Systems, Platforms at Scale, and Complex Application Development, with headquarters in Reston, VA. Our range of clients include innovative federal and public agencies leveraging design thinking, cutting edge tech stack, and cloud native ecosystem. We build digital solutions that impact the lives of millions of Americans.

We’re looking for an experienced Program Director to support our customers and join our passionate team of high-impact problem solvers. This is a unique opportunity to help build and shape a game-changing organization where we put our customers and people first.

About the role:

Lead our teams in pursuing and executing agile, go-fast contracts with architecture concepts, systems, and technologies that enable improvements to DoD capabilities.This role will be split into functioning as a technical product and program manager and helping the growth team architect RFI and RFP responses.

What we are looking for:

• Work directly with government customers to set clear expectations, understand the needs and priorities to define and deliver solutions to enable mission outcomes
• Lead the combined team in effective decision-making across a range of complex issues, including scope, design, and architecture, to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget
• Proactively manage risks to projects and client relationships, ensuring a clear and measurable impact on client missions and increasing Raft’s reputation in the GovTech domain
• Advise leadership on status or action required in connection with existing and potential business development opportunities
• Partner with the growth team and subject matter experts to solution and write responses to RFI and RFPs
• Monitor and ensure all deliverables across the portfolio are being met—to include MSRs, burn rates, sub contracts, and applicable software deliverables

Highly preferred:

• This person must be unlike any PM we’ve hired in the past. They must have a technical aptitude. Ideally they are someone technical who is now moving into management
• An “Agilista” with several years of software development leadership experience 
• A servant leader who puts the team and client’s needs first 
• An outstanding communicator with a high level of integrity and leadership courage
• A self-starter that can recognize needs and act with little to no guidance
• Must be technical with hands-on experience building technical teams in the past
  
• A facilitator and coach adept at managing client relationships and organizing agile team activities for complex, mission-critical software projects
• Experience solving complex problems for the Department of Defense  

Clearance Requirements:

• Active Clearance

Work Type:

• Remote, US

What we will offer you:  

• Highly competitive salary 
• Fully covered healthcare, dental, and vision coverage 
• 401(k) and company match 
• Unlimited PTO + 11 paid holidays 
• Education & training benefits 
• Annual budget for your tech/gadgets needs 
• Monthly box of yummy snacks to eat while doing meaningful work 
• Team off-site in fun places! 
• Generous Referral Bonuses 
• And More!

Our Vision Statement:  

We bridge the gap between humans and data through radical transparency and our obsession with the mission.

Our Customer Obsession:

We will approach every deliverable like it's a product. We will adopt a customer-obsessed mentality. As we grow, and our footprint becomes larger, teams and employees will treat each other not only as teammates but customers. We must live the customer-obsessed mindset, always. This will help us scale and it will translate to the interactions that our Rafters have with their clients and other product teams that they integrate with. Our culture will enable our success and set us apart from other companies.

How do we get there?

Public-sector modernization is critical for us to live in a better world. We, at Raft, want to innovate and solve complex problems. And, if we are successful, our generation and the ones that follow us will live in a delightful, efficient, and accessible world where out-of-box thinking, and collaboration is a norm.

Raft’s core philosophy is Ubuntu: I Am, Because We are. We support our “nadi” by elevating the other Rafters. We work as a hyper collaborative team where each team member brings a unique perspective, adding value that did not exist before. People make Raft special. We celebrate each other and our cognitive and cultural diversity. We are devoted to our practice of innovation and collaboration.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.