Senior Technical Program Manager, Federal

Staff/Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Federal

Seattle, WA or McLean, VA (Preferred) or Remote (USA)

About Us

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market in three distinct practice areas: healthcare, cyber, and national security. United by a shared sense of duty and deep belief in the power of innovation, Red Cell is developing powerful tools and solutions to address our Nation’s most pressing problems.

About

Trase

Trase is the operating system for high-stakes environments, providing end-to-end solutions for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI within industries where security, governance, and data sovereignty are non-negotiable. Our HIPAA- and SOC 2-compliant platform bridges the “last mile” of AI adoption, empowering sectors like healthcare and national security to run trustworthy, predictable AI agents across any model or environment—whether in the cloud, on-prem, or at the edge with unified policy enforcement, continuous monitoring, and fully immutable audit trails.

Trase’s suite of products includes Origin, its agentic operating system;
Leagues, its marketplace for specialized, configurable, ready-to-deploy agents; and Arena, where developers build, evaluate, and package the agents that run on Origin. The company has repeatedly topped Hugging Face’s GAIA Leader board for Generalized AI Assistants, placing it firmly at the forefront of AI-agent innovation.

About the Role

As a Staff/Senior Staff Technical Program Manager at Trase, you will own technical program execution dedicated to Red Cell Federal (RCF) and Red Cell Partners (RCP) incubations and portfolio companies. You will join Trase's dedicated RCF/RCP support team, with a strong focus on federal, government, and national security programs.

Red Cell Partners is an investment and incubation firm that builds and supports technology companies, including Trase. Red Cell Federal is our federal-focused partner within that ecosystem. This role helps RCF and other RCP partner companies adopt and operate Trase OS in their own environments. You will turn partner requirements into secure, reliable deployments and sustained operational support, with a strong focus on federal, government, and national security programs.

You will work with a dedicated team of full-stack software engineers and Dev Ops/SRE engineers, partnering closely with Trase Platform Engineering, Product, GRC, and RCF/RCP technical leaders. Your scope spans partner onboarding, integrations, environment readiness, releases, and ongoing support for RCF and RCP portfolio companies.

This is a hands‑on technical leadership role. You will drive decisions, resolve dependencies, and hold delivery commitments accountable from initial request through validated customer acceptance.

Scope of Responsibilities

• Own RCF/RCP program delivery: translate ambiguous requests into scoped user stories, acceptance criteria, owners, dependencies, and small, testable milestones. Confirm feasibility with engineers before committing dates.
• Establish a single intake and prioritized backlog with Product and RCF/RCP counterparts. Distinguish production blockers, security obligations, and committed customer needs from exploratory requests; keep partner-facing plans aligned with engineering execution.
• Drive secure deployment readiness across customer-managed cloud, private-network, and on-premises environments. Track infrastructure prerequisites, access, networking, secrets, model-provider integrations, and end‑to‑end workflow validation.
• Partner with GRC and security owners to incorporate applicable RMF/ATO, STIG, and impact‑level requirements into delivery plans. Drive engineering…