
Program Manager, Senior
Colorado Springs, CO · HybridFull-time$90–130K/yrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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HX5 is recruiting a Senior Program Manager to support programs at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs. The role develops and coordinates technical and acquisition materials, supports Agile software teams, and advises government program managers on system development, risks, upgrades, and modifications. It requires at least five years of DoD program management experience, a Secret clearance, and U.S. citizenship. The position is full-time, 40 hours per week, with hybrid flexibility approximately one day a week.
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**Program Manager ** Program Manager, Senior Peterson Space Force Base Colorado Springs, Colorado HX5 is an award-winning provider of engineering, research and development, and technical services to clients such as NASA and the Department of Defense. Founded in 2004, HX5 is a fast-growing veteran- and woman-owned company with locations nationwide. HX5 is currently recruiting for a Program Manager to join the team at Peterson Space Force Base, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: - Develop strategies and plans to enable agile software development. - Negotiates requirements with Government and stakeholders. Prioritizes requirements for their specific Agile analysis/development team. - Attends and participates in contractor Agile events, such as, but not limited to: Daily scrums, program increment/sprint planning, sprint reviews/demonstrations, and retrospectives. - Coordinates events, such as Configuration Control Boards, Integrated Team Teams, Joint Configuration Control Boards, ensuring key stakeholders are in attendance to make decisions. - Communicates expectations with the contractor Agile team, while communicating Agile team performance and progress to leadership. - Coordinates with the ECQR government personnel to accept the work of the contractor Agile team. - Develop and coordinate on design documents, requirements documents, contracts documents, enabling concepts, concepts of operations, system training plans, risk reduction strategies and recommendations, training material, test requirements, work specifications, and other technical documentation as requested to execute prototyping activities in support of Government demonstrations. - Perform design studies and analysis, performance-based design reviews, high level detailed specification and scope preparation, configuration management and documentation control, fabrication, assembly and simulation, and modeling. - Develop and perform technical insertions and risk reduction strategies, studies and recommendations to mitigate identified risk conditions. - Makes recommendations and advises on system development, improvements, optimization, or support efforts. - Develop, plan, and implement strategies and analysis for emergency/urgent depot level modifications, technology demonstrations, prototyping, and system test and evaluation activities. - Prepare briefings, reports, informational analyses. - Coordinate and lead resolution of system issues, deficiencies, software bugs, etc. with prime contractors, depot contractors other support contractors. - Develop and maintain technical requirements documents and architecture documentation to execute UEWR programs, upgrades, system modifications and enhancements. - Provide expertise, to include proactively identifying and resolving potential risks, to program managers at technical interchange meetings, design reviews, program conferences, technical order in-process reviews, VTCs, telecoms, working groups and informational meetings to facilitate informed decisions. - Provide relevant input to acquisition planning activities, upgrades and modifications and studies and interface with contractor logistics support personnel and product support integrators. **Salary: ** This position is expected to pay $90,000 - $130,000 annually; depending on experience, education, and any certifications that are directly related to the position. Education and Experience: Must have one of the following combinations of education and experience: - Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a related field. - At least 5 years of DoD Program Management experience - Must have and be able to maintain Secret Security Clearance - Must be a US Citizen **Preferred Qualifications: ** - DoD PMP Level III Certification, Agile certification (PMI-ACP, SAFe Agilist, Scrum Master Certification CSM etc) - Agile software p ogram management experience - **Position Type/Expected Hours of Work: ** This is a full-time position requiring 40 hours per week and offers a flexible work schedule Monday through Friday during core business hours. This position offers hybrid flexibility approximately 20% (1 day a week) - Subject to change per the customer's discretion. Other Position Requirements: - Proof of U.S. Citizenship or US Permanent Residency is a requirement for this position. - Must be able to complete a U.S. government background investigation. - Must be able to obtain a Secret clearance. - Must be able to travel, up to 10% including air travel to include CONUS and OCONUS locations. HX5 offers a competitive salary and benefits package to include: - Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance - 401(k) plan with Company Match - Paid Holidays - Paid Time Off - Parental Leave - Life Insurance - Tuition Reimbursement - Medical and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts - Pet Insurance HX5, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status. HX5, LLC is a Drug Free Workplace Employer. ACCESSIBILITY NOTICE: If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process due to a physical or mental disability, please call (850) 362-6551.
How this job compares
Set against the 11,190 open Program Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$90–130K/yr
- Colorado median$122–187K/yr312 salary ranges
- US median$120–204K/yr8,801 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $110K, is 29% below the Colorado median midpoint ($155K) — in the lowest quarter of Program Manager salary ranges in Colorado.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 378 open Program Manager jobs in Colorado and 11,190 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Program Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (9,515 postings).
- Education
- 5,033 of the 11,190 open Program Manager jobs (45%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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