Deputy Program Manager

Role Description

The Deputy Program Manager will support overall project management for a contracted NOAA program. This is a full-time key personnel role responsible for ensuring the program is organized, compliant, well-coordinated, and able to execute effectively across task orders, technical teams, subcontractors, and government stakeholders.

This role is the prime-contractor program manager for and is accountable for ensuring that Tomorrow.io delivers against contract requirements, task order commitments, subcontractor dependencies, reporting obligations, and customer expectations.

Offer of employment for this role is contingent upon contract award to Tomorrow.io.

Expected Outcomes

• The Deputy Program Manager will ensure the program runs with strong operational discipline, including:
• Clear schedules
• Accurate reporting
• Well-managed risks
• Documented decisions
• Timely deliverables
• Coordinated execution across Tomorrow.io, subcontractors, technical leaders, and NOAA stakeholders
• This role is expected to support immediate execution upon award, including:
• Kickoff readiness
• Project management planning
• Transition execution
• Recurring progress reporting
• Risk management
• Task order implementation

Key Responsibilities

• Support overall project management across the IDIQ and task order levels, ensuring contract requirements, deliverables, milestones, and customer commitments are met.
• Manage the PMO operating cadence, including:
• Kickoff meetings
• Biweekly progress meetings
• Leadership reviews
• Task order reviews
• Subcontractor reviews
• Internal execution meetings
• Maintain the Integrated Master Schedule, including:
• Task order milestones
• Dependencies
• Deliverables
• Staffing inputs
• Risks
• Key decision points
• Development and maintenance of core program artifacts, including:
• Project Management Plan
• Communication plan
• Staffing plans
• Risk register
• Action-item tracker
• Deliverables tracker
• Decision log
• Change-control documentation
• Progress reports
• Drive task order implementation, including:
• Scope confirmation
• Resource planning
• Schedule tracking
• Deliverable tracking
• Risk management
• Reporting
• Closeout support
• Coordinate across technical leadership and corporate functions to ensure execution is aligned, dependencies are visible, and blockers are resolved quickly.
• Partner with Ops to support contract execution requirements, including:
• Labor visibility
• Subcontractor support
• ODCs
• Invoicing inputs
• Staffing
• Onboarding
• Compliance needs
• Maintain visibility into program risks, issues, blockers, decisions, and dependencies; escalate items that may affect cost, schedule, quality, compliance, or stakeholder expectations.
• Prepare and support customer briefings, monthly progress reports, program reviews, executive dashboards, and other status updates for NOAA and Tomorrow.io leadership.
• Ensure program records are maintained in approved systems such as Jira, Confluence, GitHub Projects, or other program management tools.
• Support quality review of deliverables before submission to NOAA and help maintain a clear, disciplined, and collaborative operating model across Team Tomorrow.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in project management, program management, technical program management, government program execution, or a related role.
• Experience managing complex programs with multiple workstreams, stakeholders, schedules, risks, deliverables, and reporting requirements.
• Knowledge of NOAA’s NWP modeling suites.
• Experience supporting government contracts, federal programs, task orders, subcontractor coordination, or customer-facing delivery programs.
• Strong project management discipline, including:
• Schedule management
• Risk management
• Action tracking
• Meeting facilitation
• Status reporting
• Deliverable coordination
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare executive-ready status updates, meeting notes, progress reports, and follow-up communications.
• Experience using project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, GitHub Projects, Smartsheet, Asana, Monday.com, or similar systems.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and time-sensitive deliverables.

Requirements

• Preferred but not required:
• Experience managing software, cloud, data, scientific, engineering, aerospace, weather, or federal technology programs.
• Experience working with NOAA, NASA, DoD, or other federal science/technology agencies.
• Familiarity with federal contract compliance, government reporting, and subcontractor management.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Unlimited paid time off
• Relocation assistance may be offered/available for certain roles