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Technical Program Manager

Spruce is building a future where users control their identity and data across all digital interactions. We believe in endowing individuals with control over privacy through open-source software that makes user-controlled interactions possible.

Spruce

Employee count: 11-50

Salary: 120k-150k USD

United States only
SpruceID builds privacy-preserving, standards-based digital identity and credentialing solutions that give individuals control of their information while enabling governments and enterprises to deliver secure, interoperable services. We partner with public-sector organizations to modernize how identity is issued, verified, and used.
Spruce is seeking a Technical Program Manager (TPM) to orchestrate delivery of identity and credentialing software solutions for our government partners. You will operate at three altitudes:
Strategic: Engaging agency executives, policy leaders, and C-suite stakeholders to align deployments with mission outcomes and long-term digital-transformation goals.
Tactical: Translating strategy into roadmaps, epics, and sprint goals for product managers, software engineers, and implementation teams.
Multimodal: Managing across multiple engagements and customers with different needs, stakeholders, priorities and roadmaps and finding efficiencies between them.
Your mandate: remove friction, clarify priorities, and drive execution so that Spruce and our customers can confidently deliver identity solutions that are secure, interoperable, and citizen-centric.
This job is fully remote within the US.

What You'll Do

  • Program Ownership: Lead multi-workstream identity/credentialing initiatives from planning through launch, ensuring schedules, budgets, and success metrics are met.
  • Stakeholder Alignment: Build trusted relationships with agency executives and senior decision-makers; map technical delivery to policy and mission requirements.
  • Delivery Leadership: Partner with product owners, architects, and engineers to turn strategic goals into sprint plans, stories, and acceptance criteria.
  • Process & Governance: Establish clear communication cadences, risk logs, and change-management practices appropriate for government environments.
  • Customer Engagement: Facilitate workshops, roadmap reviews, and executive briefings; capture feedback to inform product evolution and standards adoption.
  • Risk & Issue Management: Surface obstacles early, coordinate mitigation plans, and keep leadership informed of trade-offs and dependencies.
  • Continuous Improvement: Collect metrics, drive retrospectives, and adapt process to maximize velocity, quality, and customer satisfaction.
  • Advocate for Privacy & Standards: Champion interoperability, open standards, and user-centric principles in every delivery decision.

Qualifications

  • Experience: 3–7+ years managing software programs or enterprise implementations, ideally in identity, credentialing, authentication, or security domains.
  • Technical Fluency: Comfort with APIs, system diagrams, and data flows; ability to engage meaningfully with engineers and architects.
  • Government Familiarity: Understanding of public-sector procurement, compliance, operations, and security considerations (FedRAMP, NIST, ISO, etc.) is highly valued.
  • Execution Excellence: Proven record of keeping complex initiatives on track across multiple teams and vendors.
  • Strategic Acumen: Skilled at linking technical deliverables to policy objectives and mission impact for executive audiences.
  • Collaboration & Communication: Exceptional written and verbal skills across technical, operational, and executive forums.

Bonus Qualifications

  • Direct experience delivering identity, access management, or verifiable credential solutions for government.
  • Certifications (PMP, CSM, SAFe, PRINCE2) or practical agile program leadership.
  • Hands-on exposure to scripting, SQL, or analytics tools for debugging or reporting.
At SpruceID, we value diversity of perspectives and backgrounds. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status.

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Salary: 120k-150k USD

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About Spruce

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We believe users should be able to control their identity and data across all digital interactions.

Founders Wayne Chang and Gregory Rocco met while working at ConsenSys in Brooklyn, New York. They realized that the best way to ensure a user-centric future was to build the core infrastructure that lets users control their data across the web. Enter Spruce in early 2020. As implementers and architects of emerging global identity standards such as W3C Verifiable Credentials, Sign-In with Ethereum, and more, we recognize the importance of aligning the ecosystem and providing core open-source building blocks to make this all possible.

We Believe in

  • Enabling a world where users can control their data across the web.

  • Giving people security and privacy through private-by-default architectures.

  • Supporting builders with open-source software for user-controlled interactions.

Our Investors

We're proud to be backed by a world-class team of investors, including top founders, leaders, and institutions in the industry.

Grow With Us

We're a team of user control maximalists, and while we’re not zealots of any particular technology, we want to ensure that technology is never the limiting factor for a user-controlled future. We believe that the world is evolving toward one based on cryptography, networks, and digital economies that must all put user at the center.

If this resonates with you, check out our open roles.

Employee benefits

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Healthcare benefits

Quality group health insurance coverage.

Company retreats

We have team gatherings around the world.

Flexible working hours

We accommodate all kinds of lifestyles and life stages. Come work on your terms.

Unlimited PTO

Take as much time off as you want as long as it doesn't interfere with your ability to do your work.

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Spruce

Company size

11-50 employees

Founded in

2020

Chief executive officer

Wayne Chang

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