Deputy Program Manager

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Group Overview

Metrea is actively building its presence in Australia as part of a deliberate, globally coordinated expansion into the Asia-Pacific region. Our Asia-Pacific Market Group, headquartered in Brisbane with an additional office in Perth, is the enterprise's dedicated regional interface — connecting Australia's national security community with Metrea's full suite of capabilities across three core domains: Aerospace, Electromagnetic & Cyber, and Digital & Synthetic. Metrea is now bringing that same depth of mission expertise and proven operating model to Australia. 

 Underpinning these capabilities is a global network of Support Groups spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement — ensuring that as we grow in Australia, we do so with the full weight of an established global enterprise behind us. 

 Metrea's solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving — enabling our partners to scale capacity and achieve asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Position Summary

We are seeking a Deputy Program Manager to serve as the primary execution partner supporting a strategic Australian customer. Embedded within the customer environment, this role is responsible for coordinating program activities, integrating multiple workstreams, managing stakeholder relationships, and ensuring delivery commitments are achieved across a complex, customer-facing operational environment. 

Reporting to the Senior Program Manager, the Deputy Program Manager serves as the operational focal point and transition in manager for day-to-day execution. The role translates program objectives into actionable plans, drives coordination across internal and external stakeholders, and maintains visibility into schedule, risk, performance, and customer priorities. Success is measured through execution excellence, customer confidence, operational discipline, and the ability to consistently deliver positive program outcomes in dynamic environments.

What You'll Do

• Lead day-to-day execution activities supporting a strategic Australian customer
• Develop and maintain integrated schedules and execution plans
• Coordinate delivery activities across multiple stakeholders and workstreams
• Manage risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies
• Prepare customer-facing and executive-level reporting products
• Facilitate governance forums, reviews, and planning activities
• Ensure alignment between operational activities and customer expectations
• Monitor program performance against established objectives
• Support opportunity development and future growth initiatives
• Identify and implement process improvements that enhance execution effectiveness

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent operational, Defence, technical, or professional experience
• Typically, 6-10 years of project, program, operational, military, or customer-facing experience
• Experience leading complex projects or customer-facing initiatives
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous and rapidly changing environments
• Experience supporting defense, aerospace, aviation, government, or national security customers preferred
• Strong planning, scheduling, risk management, and execution skills
• PMP certification preferred

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance
• Generous PTO
• Annual incentive plan
• Paid parental leave
• Life and disability insurance
• Income Protection Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Novated Car Leasing 

Work Authorisation / Security Clearance

Ability to obtain and maintain an AGSVA Security Clearance

Inclusion Statement

We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad range of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and make hiring decisions based on capability, potential and alignment with our values. If you require any adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please let us know.