Program Manager

Overview

LMI is seeking an experienced and highly adaptable Program Manager to support a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) program focused on suicide prevention and mental health. This role will serve as a deputy and trusted right hand to the Sr Program Manager, helping lead day-to-day contract operations, client delivery, workforce management, technical execution, and strategic growth. The successful candidate will independently lead major aspects of the program, maintain visibility across multiple projects and workstreams, supervise and develop staff, anticipate and resolve delivery challenges, and step in for program leadership as needed. This individual must be comfortable operating with limited direction, bringing structure to ambiguity, making sound decisions, and moving seamlessly between client engagement, team leadership, internal operations, technical delivery, and business strategy.

A significant part of this role is people leadership. The Program Manager will supervise employees across different roles, disciplines, levels of seniority, and career stages. The successful candidate must be comfortable setting clear expectations, coaching and developing employees, recognizing strong performance, addressing performance or behavioral concerns directly, and having difficult conversations when necessary.

The ideal candidate brings strong federal program management experience, operational discipline, business acumen, and an interest in helping grow LMI’s VA portfolio. Experience with Agile delivery and familiarity with Jira, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Power Platform, SharePoint development, and/or program evaluation is strongly preferred. Prior experience supporting VA is a significant advantage.

LMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.

Leveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and intelligence sectors—helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.
Responsibilities

- Serve as a deputy to the Sr Program Manager, providing leadership across contract operations, client delivery, staffing, financial performance, and strategic priorities.

- Independently lead program activities and represent program leadership with clients, internal stakeholders, and delivery teams as needed.

- Directly supervise and manage employees across different job families, technical disciplines, titles, experience levels, and levels of seniority.

- Set clear performance expectations, provide ongoing feedback and coaching, support professional development, and hold employees accountable for performance, behavior, and delivery commitments.

- Lead LMI’s Performance 365 process for assigned staff, including goal setting, ongoing performance discussions, career development, recognition, documentation, and formal performance reviews.

- Address performance concerns early and directly, including conducting difficult or sensitive conversations, establishing improvement expectations, documenting issues appropriately, and partnering with leadership and HR when necessary.

- Plan, coordinate, and oversee execution across multiple concurrent projects and workstreams, ensuring priorities, resources, risks, and outcomes remain aligned.

- Establish and maintain effective program operating rhythms, governance, schedules, action tracking, decision logs, and performance reporting.

- Monitor cost, schedule, scope, staffing, utilization, and performance