Chainguard · 8 hours ago
Senior Culture Program Manager
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$174K/yr - $205K/yr
7+ years expChainguard is a company that focuses on building a secure foundation for software development and deployment. They are seeking a Senior Culture Program Manager to own and evolve their manager experience, focusing on leadership development and employee experience through various programs and initiatives.
Cloud SecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareOpen SourceSecurity
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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
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
Benefits
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.
Company
Chainguard
Chainguard is a cloud-native development platform that provides low-to-zero CVE container images for building and running applications.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$892MKey Investors
General CatalystSpark CapitalSequoia Capital
2025-10-23Debt Financing· $280M
2025-04-23Series D· $356M
2024-07-25Series C· $140M
Leadership Team
Dan Lorenc
Founder/CEO
Kim Lewandowski
Co-Founder
Recent News
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