Back to jobs
New

Senior Culture Program Manager

United States - Remote

About the Role

At Chainguard, culture isn’t an afterthought — it’s how we scale. Our Culture & Belonging team exists to build leadership systems that help people do the best work of their careers, while creating a workplace rooted in trust, clarity, and belonging.

As we grow, manager enablement becomes one of our biggest multipliers. We’re looking for a Senior Program Manager to own and evolve our manager experience end to end — from leadership development to day-to-day management habits.

This role sits at the intersection of leadership development, employee experience, and modern enablement. You’ll lead our flagship programs like How We Lead and How We Manage, build community for managers, and partner deeply with People Partners, executives, and the broader Culture team.

If you love building programs that are practical, human, and actually used — this role is for you.

What You’ll Do

  • Lead "How We Lead": Own our flagship leadership development program, evolving it from a static framework into a living practice embedded in the flow of work.
  • Build "How We Manage": Design and launch our "Manager 101" program, focusing on managing remotely, effective 1:1s, team rituals, and operational excellence—leveraging AI to provide just-in-time coaching and prompts.
  • Drive Upward Feedback: Partner with People Partners to manage bi-annual upward feedback cycles, ensuring insights lead to actionable development for managers.
  • Nurture Communities of Practice: Facilitate monthly manager All Hands and build spaces where leaders can solve problems, share "oops" moments, and learn together.
  • Scale Manager Onboarding: Design the first 90 days for new managers to ensure they hit the ground running with the "Chainguard Way" of leadership.
  • Champion External Branding: Partner with Marketing to showcase our culture on LinkedIn, RepVue, and other platforms—telling the story of what it’s like to build and lead here.
  • Support Culture Milestones: Co-lead leadership offsites and major summits to create high-impact, "wonderfully weird" employee experiences.

What Success Looks Like

  • How We Lead and How We Manage are highly adopted, well-loved, and measurably impactful
  • Managers report clearer expectations and stronger day-to-day effectiveness
  • Leadership behaviors improve across engagement and upward feedback data
  • Programs feel practical, modern, and human — not theoretical or checkbox-driven
  • External culture presence feels authentic, responsive, and aligned with how we actually operate
  • You’re a trusted partner to People Partners, leaders, and executives

What We’re Looking For

  • 7+ years in L&D, Employee Experience, or Program Management: You’ve built and scaled leadership programs in high-growth environments.
  • Prompt Engineering Savvy: You don't just use AI; you know how to build advanced prompts to generate curriculum, role-play scenarios, and feedback loops.
  • Modern L&D Toolkit: You prefer "just-in-time" enablement over 4-hour workshops. You understand RAG-based learning, micro-learning, and social learning.
  • Storytelling Flair: You can write a LinkedIn post that stops the scroll and design a slide deck that feels like a brand, not a lecture.
  • The "Chainguard Vibe": You believe belonging is a business driver and you operate with "Yes, And" energy.

The "Special Sauce": Candidate Differentiators

(Not required — but you’ll stand out if you bring these)

  • Prompt Engineering & AI Curiosity: You don’t just use ChatGPT for emails; you know how to design sophisticated prompts that act as coaching assistants or curriculum generators.
  • Vibe-Coding & Prototyping: You dabble in "vibe-coding" (using tools like Replit, Bolt, or Cursor) to build quick prototypes, landing pages, or tools that solve culture friction.
  • Automation Mindset: You’re comfortable with Google Apps Script or Zapier to automate the "boring stuff" (like 1:1 reminders or feedback aggregation) so you can focus on the human stuff.
  • Experimental Bias: You’d rather ship a "Minimum Viable Program" today and iterate based on real feedback than spend six months building a slide deck no one reads.
  • Trend Translator: You keep tabs on bleeding-edge L&D trends (cohort-based learning, RAG-based knowledge bases) and know how to make them work in a practical, startup environment.

Nice to Have

  • Experience at a high-growth startup or scaling organization
  • Background in belonging, culture, or organizational effectiveness
  • Experience supporting global or distributed teams
  • Familiarity with cohort-based learning and communities of practice

Why This Role Matters

As Chainguard grows, we can’t scale leadership through instinct alone. We need clear expectations, shared habits, and scalable systems for how people lead and manage.

This role shapes how leadership shows up every day — and ensures our culture stays strong as we grow.



Base Salary Range

$174,000 - $205,000 USD

About Us

Chainguard is the secure foundation for software development and deployment. By providing guarded open source software, built from source and updated continuously, Chainguard helps organizations eliminate threats in their software supply chains.

Founded by the industry's leading experts on open source software, security and cloud native development, Chainguard has built the largest library of open source software that is secure by default. 

Chainguard’s mission is to be the safe source for open source.

 

We live and breathe our company values:

We are customer obsessed - We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.

We have a bias for intentional action - We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.

We don’t take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) - We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.

We trust each other and assume good intentions - We’re transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.

 

A few of the benefits we offer:

  • Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs. 
  • Our Approach to Equity:  Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!). 
  • 100%  Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck. 
  • ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset. 
  • 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.

If your experience is close but doesn’t fulfill all requirements, please apply. We’re building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring “Chainguardians'' with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Chainguard will process your personal data in accordance with Chainguard’s Privacy Policy.

©2025 Chainguard. All Rights Reserved.

Apply for this job

*

indicates a required field

Resume/CV*

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf

Cover Letter

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf

Select...

Voluntary Self-Identification

For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.

As set forth in Chainguard’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

Select...
Select...
Race & Ethnicity Definitions

If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categories is as follows:

A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.

A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.

An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.

Select...

Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability

Form CC-305
Page 1 of 1
OMB Control Number 1250-0005
Expires 04/30/2026

Why are you being asked to complete this form?

We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this question at least every five years.

Completing this form is voluntary, and we hope that you will choose to do so. Your answer is confidential. No one who makes hiring decisions will see it. Your decision to complete the form and your answer will not harm you in any way. If you want to learn more about the law or this form, visit the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) website at www.dol.gov/ofccp.

How do you know if you have a disability?

A disability is a condition that substantially limits one or more of your “major life activities.” If you have or have ever had such a condition, you are a person with a disability. Disabilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Alcohol or other substance use disorder (not currently using drugs illegally)
  • Autoimmune disorder, for example, lupus, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS
  • Blind or low vision
  • Cancer (past or present)
  • Cardiovascular or heart disease
  • Celiac disease
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Deaf or serious difficulty hearing
  • Diabetes
  • Disfigurement, for example, disfigurement caused by burns, wounds, accidents, or congenital disorders
  • Epilepsy or other seizure disorder
  • Gastrointestinal disorders, for example, Crohn's Disease, irritable bowel syndrome
  • Intellectual or developmental disability
  • Mental health conditions, for example, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD
  • Missing limbs or partially missing limbs
  • Mobility impairment, benefiting from the use of a wheelchair, scooter, walker, leg brace(s) and/or other supports
  • Nervous system condition, for example, migraine headaches, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS)
  • Neurodivergence, for example, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia, other learning disabilities
  • Partial or complete paralysis (any cause)
  • Pulmonary or respiratory conditions, for example, tuberculosis, asthma, emphysema
  • Short stature (dwarfism)
  • Traumatic brain injury
Select...

PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENT: According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless such collection displays a valid OMB control number. This survey should take about 5 minutes to complete.