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Program Manager

Prescient Edge
San Diego, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 5/8/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/8/2026
Job Title
Program Manager
Location
San Diego, CA 22400 US (Primary)
Category
Research, Development, and Engineering
Job Type
Full-Time
Career Level
Manager
Education
Bachelor's Degree
Travel
Security Clearance Required
Top Secret
Job Description

Prescient Edge is seeking a Program Manager to support a federal government client.

Benefits:

At Prescient Edge, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes:

  • A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities.
  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage.
  • A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule. Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking.
  • A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged.
  • Salary range: $141,000 - $204,000. Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills and the abilities of the applicant internal equity, and alignment with market data.
Job Requirements

Job Description & Requirements:

  • Good communication skills.
  • Have managed technical projects before and have a technical degree or some technical experience with DOD projects.
  • Travel is of the utmost need with travel expected to be at least 25% or more of the time.
  • Will be required extensive travel summer 2025.
  • Management experience for large scale contracts.
  • Experience as the PM of a FEDSIM contract.
  • Leadership experience.
  • FAC PMM Level III Government Career Path.
  • Defense Acquisition Workforce Initiative Act (DAWIA) experience.
  • Within the last 15 years, possess a minimum of 10 years of experience working on DoD service- specific and/ or Joint-Service projects.
  • Within the last 10 years, possess a minimum of 5 years of experience managing projects that are of a similar scope and complexity. One of the projects managed must have included intelligence or special operations support elements.
  • Possess a current certification in at least one of the following at time of proposal submission and maintain the certification throughout the life of the task order: Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional or PMI Program Management Professional (PMP) certification.
  • Build and develop the project team to ensure maximum performance, by providing purpose, direction, and motivation.
  • Lead projects from requirements definition through deployment, identifying schedules, scopes, budget estimations, and implementation plans, including risk mitigation.
  • Coordinate internal and external resources to ensure that projects adhere to scope, schedule, and budget.
  • Analyze project status and, when necessary, revise the scope, schedule, or budget to ensure that project requirements can be met.
  • Establish and maintain relationships with relevant client stakeholders, providing day-to-day contact on project status and changes.

Security Clearance:

  • Security clearance required TS.

Location:

  • San Diego/Port Hueneme, CA.
Prescient Edge is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) founded as a counterintelligence (CI) and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) company in 2008. We are a global operations and solutions integrator delivering full-spectrum intelligence analysis support, training, security, and RD&E support solutions to the Department of Defense and throughout the intelligence community. Prescient Edge is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO). All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic that is protected by law. We strive to foster equity and inclusion throughout our organization because we believe that diversity of thought is critical for creating a safe and engaging work environment while also enabling the organization’s success.

Salary : $141,000 - $204,000

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