Senior Program Manager, Texas Institute for Electronics

Serve as TIEs primary day-to-day interface with government funding partners and key stakeholders, including reporting on action items, technical oversight, contracting, and program management.Maintain the established sponsor cadence (check-ins, deliverable touchpoints, review preparation), ensuring disciplined agendas, clear decision capture, and timely action-item closure.Shape and manage expectations with sponsor stakeholdersclarify objectives and align on success criteria.Proactively identify performance risk, mitigation options, trades analyses, recommend courses of action, and execute risk reduction plans.Drive responsiveness and credibility: ensure rapid, high-quality turnaround on sponsor inquiries, action items, and data requests with accurate, well-organized responses.Own program governance in close partnership with contracts, legal, and finance, including reporting requirements, formal deliverables, documentation discipline, invoicing milestones, change control, and audit-ready records.Maintain a disciplined deliverables management system (templates, review workflow, submission calendar, version control, and archives) to ensure on-time, sponsor-ready submissions.Support a compliance-focused execution posture appropriate for large government programs (e.g., CUI/ITAR handling and alignment with a NIST/CMMC-like environment), including appropriate partner flow-down expectations.Build and maintain integrated program management plans (WBS/IMS, milestones, resources, dependencies) and provide clear progress-to-plan tracking across internal teams and partners.Coordinate execution across TIE teams (engineering, packaging/fab operations, supply chain, test/characterization, finance, quality) and a large partner ecosystem; identify execution bottlenecks early and drive mitigation and contingency plans.Facilitate Technical Interchange Meetings and program reviewscoordinate inputs and SMEs, keep discussions aligned to sponsor objectives, and translate outcomes into executable next steps (owners, timelines).Define and manage program KPIs and risks (schedule confidence, burn vs. plan, deliverable health, risk burndown), escalating as needed to maintain clear visibility for leadership and sponsors.