Program Management Trainer and Mentor
At Goldschmitt and Associates LLC (G&A), we’re not just another company—we’re a catalyst for innovation and impact, and we’re inviting passionate, forward-thinking individuals to join us on this journey. Recognized multiple times on the Inc 5000 list of the fastest-growing companies, G&A is a leader in tech transformation and system modernization for some of the nation’s most important federal agencies.
Our culture is built on creativity and collaboration. We offer flexible schedules, telework options, and an environment where your ideas truly matter. At G&A, you won’t just clock in—you’ll be solving real-world challenges and working on projects that make a difference in the lives of millions.
Joining our team means becoming part of a vibrant, connected community where innovation thrives, your voice is heard, and your impact is felt. Whether you’re a tech enthusiast, a strategic thinker, or a problem-solver, at G&A, you’ll have the opportunity to level up your career while making a real-world impact.
If you’re ready to be part of a company that values purpose as much as progress, G&A is the place for you!
Summary
Goldschmitt & Associates is seeking a Program Management Trainer and Mentor, an exceptional senior enterprise leader to help Federal Student Aid fundamentally transform how technology and digital services are governed, prioritized, delivered, measured, and continuously improved. The role will operate at enterprise scale, advising FSA leadership, shaping the product operating model, influencing major systems integrators and delivery partners, and helping institutionalize a durable shift from project-centered execution to product-led, customer-responsive management. The successful leader must be equally credible with executives, product leaders, engineers, architects, operations teams, and large delivery organizations, and must be able to turn broad transformation goals into practical governance, decision rights, operating rhythms, measures, and behaviors that can endure across the agency.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Serve as a senior enterprise advisor to FSA leadership on the transition from project-centered delivery to a sustainable, product-oriented operating model aligned to mission outcomes, borrower needs, operational priorities, and measurable value
- Shape and help institutionalize agency-wide product governance, including product ownership, decision rights, intake, prioritization, roadmap practices, backlog management, lifecycle management, performance transparency, and accountability
- Assess product management maturity across organizations and delivery teams, identify structural and capability gaps, and design targeted transformation strategies that can scale across a complex federal enterprise
- Influence and align major systems integrators, contractors, technical teams, and business organizations around common product outcomes, operating principles, standards, and delivery expectations; challenge legacy processes when they impede product performance or customer outcomes
- Coach senior leaders, product managers, product owners, engineering and delivery leaders, and cross-functional teams on product strategy, outcome-based delivery, prioritization, customer discovery, iterative capability delivery, and data-informed decision-making
- Facilitate executive and cross-functional working sessions, Design Thinking workshops, product reviews, planning forums, and decision-making sessions that move teams from technical outputs toward user-centered outcomes and measurable service health
- Establish integrated product and program management practices for planning, scheduling, reporting, risk management, dependency management, and backlog control in alignment with FSA priorities
- Create practical mechanisms for coordinating upstream and downstream interfaces, technical dependencies, organizational handoffs, readiness conditions, and sequencing across FSA systems and participating organizations
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