Intel Program Manager
North Bethesda, MDJob$160–200K/yrSeen 1mo agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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Job overview
SAIC seeks a Program Manager to provide management, direction, and leadership for contractor activities under an Intelligence Community program, serving as the single point of accountability and overseeing scope, cost, schedule, risk, quality, and communications throughout the performance period.
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Description
SAIC is seeking a Program Manager (PM) to provide management, direction, and leadership for all contractor activities performed under an Intelligence Community program. This position serves as the single point of accountability across the program.
Work is performed on site in: Bethesda, MD, with CONUS/OCONUS travel as required.
The Program Manager will be responsible for:
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Serving as the primary contractor interface to the Government CO, COR, and leadership for all contractual, financial, technical, and programmatic matters.
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Providing overall management and oversight of all contractor and subcontractor personnel across all program functional areas.
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Developing and executing program management plans covering scope, cost, schedule, risk, quality, and communications across the full period of performance.
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Managing contract financials, including budget tracking, expenditure forecasting, and cost control.
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Leading staffing strategy and execution, including recruitment, onboarding, retention, and surge staffing of TS/SCI CI Polygraph-cleared personnel.
Qualifications
Required Education and Years of Experience:
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Active TS/SCI is required to be considered for this role.
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Willing and able to obtain a polygraph.
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Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Program Management, Computer Science, Intelligence Studies, Engineering, or a related field.
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Seven (7) years of experience managing contracts of similar size, scope, and complexity (including programs in excess of $50M) within the IC, DoD, or a closely related national security environment.
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Five (5) years of experience managing multi-disciplinary technical teams, including direct oversight of subcontractors, in a classified environment.
Desired:
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Experience supporting national-level digital exploitation or technical intelligence programs.
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Experience managing Alliant 2 or other GSA GWAC task orders.
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Master's degree in Business Administration, Program Management, or related field.
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PMP or PgMP certification.
Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
REQNUMBER: 2616975
SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability
How this job compares
Set against the 11,142 open Program Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$160–200K/yr
- Maryland median$129–204K/yr176 salary ranges
- US median$120–202K/yr8,741 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $180K, is 7% above the Maryland median midpoint ($168K) — in the middle half of Program Manager salary ranges in Maryland.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 229 open Program Manager jobs in Maryland and 11,142 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience; Program Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years at the median (9,608 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 4,401 of the 11,142 open Program Manager jobs (39%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 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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