Hybrid Portfolio Manager

at Tangram Flex

• Job title: Portfolio Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: SDLC
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dayton, United States

About the role

• Portfolio Manager leading software and systems engineering growth in the defense sector. Aligning customer needs with technical delivery and managing program execution across multiple initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Own the complete customer perspective and ensure shared understanding and alignment across the portfolio team
• Build and maintain long-term customer relationships that drive repeat business and expansion opportunities
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to both business and technical stakeholders
• Partner with customers to understand business objectives, technical requirements, constraints, and success criteria
• Listen to, understand, and translate customer needs into actionable guidance for engineering, product management, sales/growth, and other internal teams
• Serve as the primary customer-facing strategic engineering and solutioning point of contact
• Act as a trusted technical advisor and thought partner, articulating project requirements, setting expectations, and collaborating with internal teams to meet commitments
• Manage customer expectations by clearly communicating capabilities, limitations, risks, and tradeoffs
• Proactively resolve customer issues in a manner consistent with the company’s mission, values, and financial objectives
• Own the execution success and growth of a portfolio of programs aligned to a specific customer or market space
• Translate ambiguous or high-level business and technical needs into clear, actionable requirements
• Participate in the design of end-to-end solution architectures that align with customer objectives, budgets, schedules, and delivery constraints
• Ensure coordination and collaboration between program level resources (ie. Program Managers, Program Technical Leads, Program Engineers/Performers) to ensure successful Portfolio level execution
• Evaluate, select, and recommend appropriate technologies, platforms, and integration approaches
• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, compliant, supportable, and aligned with architectural best practices
• Document solution architectures, assumptions, risks, and tradeoffs in a manner accessible to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Maintain deep understanding of Tangram Flex products and their application within customer environments
• Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and delivery teams to ensure solutions are feasible, buildable, and operationally sound
• Clarify requirements, resolve technical questions, and adapt designs as constraints, risks, or priorities evolve
• Provide leadership and guidance through early implementation phases or during handoff to delivery teams
• Partner with business development teams to identify, qualify, and capture follow-on work and new opportunities within the portfolio
• Lead capture management activities associated with the portfolio, including customer engagement, competitive assessments, teaming strategies, solution shaping, and proposal development support
• Support bid and proposal efforts by contributing to technical volumes, management approaches, and pricing strategies where appropriate.
• Ensure smooth handoff between capture process and program initiation prior to and during a successful award; Identifying opportunities to expand business with customers and participate in developing statements of work and proposals to win additional follow on work with clients.
• Help shape win themes by tying technical capabilities to customer value
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to the customer during pre-sales and delivery discussions

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree within any of these disciplines, Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or Operations Management, equivalent successful experience in a similar industry role.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience managing, supporting, or leading technical programs in a Federal Government environment (ideally software focused).
• Strong understanding of software engineering concepts, specifically DoD/DoW software and systems engineering environments including software development life cycle (SDLC), agile practices, and systems integration.
• Demonstrated experience growing the scope and or value of programs or portfolios organically within the DoD/DoW market.
• Possess a current/or recent U.S. Government Security Clearance or the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams and communicate effectively.
• Understanding of Government and Industry program/project management tasks and execution methods.
• Ability to manage multiple complex, multidisciplinary tasks and projects.
• Experience working directly with Customers to capture, understand, and meet requirements, build relationships, articulate and provide customer.
• Excellent time and resource management skills.
• Proficient with MS Office and Google Suite products.
• Team player with demonstrated ability to lead and/or support co-workers to success.
• Demonstrated competency in written and oral communication.
• Familiarity with Federal acquisition processes, contracting mechanisms, and compliance requirements.
• Reside within the proximity of Dayton, Ohio

Benefits

• Flexible Working Hours
• 10 paid holidays
• generous Paid Time Off
• Employer Paid Medical, Dental, Vision and Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Access to group rating plans for Life Insurance
• Employer contribution to Health Savings Account
• Competitive 401K employer match
• A work environment and culture that fosters transparency, collaboration and well-being