Program Managers, Deputy Program Managers, Senior Project Managers & Project Managers; CBP

About Agile Defense

At Agile Defense we know that action defines the outcome and new challenges require new solutions. That’s why we always look to the future and embrace change with an unmovable spirit and the courage to build for what comes next.

Our vision is to bring adaptive innovation to support our nation's most important missions through the seamless integration of advanced technologies, elite minds, and unparalleled agility—leveraging a foundation of speed, flexibility, and ingenuity to strengthen and protect our nation’s vital interests.

Title
:
Program Managers, Deputy Program Managers, Senior Project Managers & Project Managers (CBP)

Clearance
:
Active CBP Background Investigation (CBP BI) and EOD strongly preferred. We can begin processing for candidates who do not hold one. Some position may require an active Top Secret with SCI eligibility

Citizenship
: U.S. Citizenship required

Location
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Reston, VA and Ashburn VA - Hybrid 3-5 days, on-call requirements

Salary Range
:
Pipeline posting, varies by position

Signing Bonus
: $10,000 for candidates with an active CBP BI. Payable after 90 days; standard terms apply.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection runs continuous operations across more than 300 land, air, and sea ports of entry, plus Border Patrol stations and the Air and Marine Operations Center. Delivering technical work into that environment is a different problem from delivering it into an office. You cannot take a checkpoint down on a Tuesday because the schedule says so. Change windows are narrow, some sites are hours from the nearest support, and a slipped date can mean an officer working without a tool they were told to expect.

We are hiring project and program managers to run delivery across that constraint. You will coordinate work spanning network, cloud, cybersecurity, and field deployment teams, manage commitments with the customer, and move work through federal change control and accreditation processes that set the pace whether or not your plan accounted for them.

One thing is worth knowing before you apply. This is not a role where the schedule is the job. The engineers here can build; what slows delivery is dependency, approval, access, and the gap between what a plan assumed about a site and what is true at that site. Managers who treat those as somebody else's problem do not do well here.

Objective 1:
Turn commitments into schedules that survive contact with a 24/7 environment

• Plans account for the change windows and site access constraints that actually govern the work, not the ones that are convenient to plan around.
• Dependencies between network, cloud, security, and field teams surface before they become a delay.
• Estimates come from the people doing the work, and get challenged rather than either accepted whole or overwritten.
• When a date moves, the customer hears it from you, with a reason and an option.

Objective 2:
Give the customer a picture of the program that matches what is happening

• Status reporting tells the customer something they can act on rather than a color that covers a problem.
• Risks appear on the register while there is still time to do something about them.
• The customer stops arranging side conversations to find out how the work is really going.
• What you report measures delivery rather than activity.

Objective 3:
Remove the obstacles that keep engineers from delivering

• Blockers get resolved at the lowest level that can resolve them, and upscale quickly when they cannot.
• Engineers spend their time on the work instead of chasing approvals, access, and equipment.
• Recurring administrative friction gets fixed at its source rather than absorbed again every month.

We are hiring across several levels, and one of these roles is scoped by portfolio rather than by seniority. You do not need to pick one before applying. Tell us where you think you land and we will talk about it.

• Project Manager. You own a project's scope, schedule, and delivery. You make routine sequencing and resourcing calls yourself and bring the ones with customer impact to a review.
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