Teague
Senior Defense Project Manager
Everett, WA · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 6 days ago
Project ManagementBusiness DevelopmentForecastingLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem Solving
About the role
- Working alongside Business Development and Creative Leadership, you'll guide multidisciplinary teams, navigate classified and regulated environments, and ensure projects meet the highest standards of quality, compliance, and client service.
- You're an experienced project leader who thrives in complex, fast-paced environments where strategic thinking, disciplined execution, and strong client relationships are essential.
Responsibilities
- Represent Teague with professionalism, discretion, and sound judgment in client, partner, and internal interactions, particularly within regulated or security-sensitive environments.
- Establish trust through consistent follow-through, clear communication, and accountability for commitments made to clients, partners, and internal teams.
- Lead through ambiguity and change, creating clarity, alignment, and accountability across multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders.
- Take ownership of compliance readiness across Teague's Space & Defense work, ensuring requirements are understood, integrated into project planning, and addressed with the appropriate internal partners.
- Support defense and space business development by participating in initial client discussions, leading solution development, leveraging personal networks to identify and cultivate leads, and bringing delivery insight to spot follow-on opportunities and shape practical, credible pursuit strategies.
- Partner with Business Development, Creative Leadership, and technical teams to shape defense, government and space pursuits, including their project strategies, scopes, and delivery approaches that align with client, mission, and business objectives.
- Apply structured problem solving and sound judgment to develop estimates, resourcing plans, schedules, and risk strategies for complex work, balancing the opportunity with delivery confidence and financial performance for Teague.
- Maintain visibility into current and future defense and space work, identifying resource needs, delivery constraints, and opportunities to improve planning and project execution.
- Lead complex defense, government, and space projects through execution and delivery, maintaining control of scope, schedule, budget, resourcing, risk, and client commitments.
- Partner with Business Development, Creative, and technical teams to shape pursuits, develop scopes and estimates, and establish clear project plans and delivery strategies.
Requirements
- You have a proven track record leading multidisciplinary projects through the creative process while balancing scope, schedule, budget, risk, and quality.
- Experience supporting defense business development and partnering with business development, technical, and creative teams to shape scopes, estimates, delivery approaches, and project plans.
- 5% Business travel required for project-related, business development, and/or industry engagements.
- 7+ years of experience leading complex projects in defense, government, aerospace, space, consulting, product development, or similarly regulated environments. PMP certification is a plus.
- Proven ability to lead defense and government-related projects from scope development and estimating through delivery, with accountability for client relationships, scope, schedule, budget, forecasting, risk, and project outcomes.
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Nice to have
- 7+ years of experience leading complex projects in defense, government, aerospace, space, consulting, product development, or similarly regulated environments.
- PMP certification is a plus.
Benefits
- Maintain project health through proactive financial management, forecasting, risk management, and timely escalation of issues requiring leadership support.
Company info
- On any given day, you might be prototyping a new space station, designing cutting-edge technology, or traveling around the world conducting research.
- We just celebrated our one-hundred-year anniversary and are proudly employee-owned.
- Our culture fosters collaboration, accountability, and stability-because when we succeed, we all win.
- Come be a part of something bigger than just a job-build your career with an employee-owned company that invests in you!
- Teague is an independent design consultancy that combines technology expertise with a deep understanding of human behavior to design what's next for companies in automotive, commercial aviation, smart cities and infrastructure, advanced mobility, technology, space, and defense.
Visa & Work Authorization
- and the unique demands of defense, space, and government programs, owning the project classification process, assessing export control requirements, determining appropriate ITAR, EAR, and CUI handling, and continuously i
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