Contracts Manager, Government Programs

About Us

Quartermaster is building the world’s most comprehensive maritime intelligence platform. Our Smart Mast™ system transforms commercial and civilian vessels into a persistent, distributed sensing network—combining HD video, AI, radar, RF sensing, and AIS to deliver real-time maritime domain awareness at global scale. With 600+ sensors deployed across 25+ countries and more than 400,000 vessels identified outside of AIS, we are setting a new standard for what ocean surveillance and safety can look like.

We are a mission-driven, high-velocity team building dual-use technology for defense agencies, coast guards, and commercial maritime operators. If you want to shape our growth efforts and how we scale across the government, this is the place.

We are hiring a Contracts Manager, Government Programs to own the government contract lifecycle end to end. Our growth owners find opportunities and carry the customer relationships, our proposal team writes the technical bids, and finance owns pricing and margin. This role owns the discipline that connects them: federal procurement rules, contract negotiation, and the post-award actions that keep work funded as requirements change.

You will be Quartermaster’s primary voice to U.S. Government contracting officers and to the prime contractors we subcontract under. As our contracts grow more complex, and as our transition path runs toward programs of record, this function becomes the difference between winning work and being able to execute and bill it.

This is our first dedicated contracts hire. You will carry the workload and establish the function at the same time.

• Government Negotiation and Execution: Serve as Quartermaster’s primary interface with U.S. Government Contracting Officers (KOs/COs) and prime contractor counterparts, leading negotiations on terms, conditions, and pricing structures across fixed-price, cost-type, T&M/LOE, IDIQ, and Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) vehicles.

• Solicitation Review and Bid Compliance: Review RFPs, RFQs, BAAs, CSOs, SBIR topics, and OTA calls for compliance obligations, contract-type risk, and terms we cannot accept. Partner with the proposal team on the compliance matrix and Section L/M traceability so that our bids are responsive on the Government’s evaluation terms.

• Contract Lifecycle Management: Own pre- and post-award contract actions, including CLIN restructures, scope expansions, option exercises, incremental funding, no-cost extensions, and closeouts, so that additional scope is converted into funded work on a timeline that does not delay delivery.

• Teaming and Subcontract Administration: Negotiate NDAs, teaming agreements, and subcontracts; and hold prime contractors to the terms they flow down to us.

• Registrations and
  
  Certifications:
  
  Maintain SAM.gov registration, annual representations and certifications, size and socioeconomic status representations, and the recurring filings that determine our eligibility to compete.

• Finance and Billing Alignment: Support cost volumes, rate structures, and certified cost or pricing data where required, and keep deliverable schedules (CDRLs), billing milestones, and contract reporting consistent with what we invoice and what programs deliver.

• Data and Intellectual Property Rights: Own our position on technical data and software rights, so that government-funded work does not erode Quartermaster’s ownership of its core technology.

• Regulatory Oversight: Maintain adherence to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), DFARS, and agency supplements, and advise growth, proposal, and program teams on how acquisition rules shape what we can offer and when.

• 6+ years of experience in federal government contracting or acquisition, as…