Technical Program Manager, Cape
Security
$180-230k
Privacy-first mobile network
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Privacy-first mobile network
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-230k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To reimagine connectivity in this mobile-first world, with privacy and security at the core.
Role
Who you are
- Prior experience as a TPM or PM embedded with a security team that builds tooling and systems in-house
- Solid grounding in computer engineering fundamentals; comfortable going deep on technical detail with engineers across detection & response, corporate security, and product security
- Track record of defining and communicating technical programs to non-technical stakeholders
- Strong prioritization and backlog management skills, with the judgment to know what matters most
- Comfort operating as a trusted technical liaison between specialized teams and a large, distributed engineering organization
What the job involves
- At Cape, we are the architects of a privacy-centric movement that is just getting started
- We are relentless builders, constantly innovating at the edge of what's possible in telecommunications
- We operate on a foundation of high trust and high expectations
- Our structure is flat, and collaboration matters more than hierarchy
- As a member of our team, you will collaborate with world-class engineers, architects, and visionaries, and work across organizational lines to solve "impossible" problems and deliver mission-critical results for our users every single day
- Cape is hiring our first Security Technical Program Manager, a rare chance to build this function from scratch inside a company where security is the product
- You'll directly integrate with Security Engineering across their three pillars: detection and response , corporate security , and product security
- Rather than specializing in one lane, you'll use your visibility of the whole board to set priorities, define success, and increase velocity
- You'll also be the connective tissue between security engineering and Cape's broader ~70-person engineering organization, managing speed-security tradeoffs that are becoming more complex as AI tools proliferate
- The metrics you create will steer company-wide policy and prioritization, and your judgment will drive the company SBOM
- Define and communicate the security program's strategy, priorities, and progress to the broader business
- Shape how Cape brings new security tools into the fold, from vendor procurement through implementation, powering the stack that keeps our security org running
- Keep the security engineering team on track — manage priorities, maintain the backlog, and drive execution across detection & response, corporate security, and product security
- Serve as the technical go-between for security engineers and Cape's ~70 product engineers, translating security requirements and risk into terms product teams can act on, and vice versa
- Partner with security engineering leadership to plan roadmaps, run program rituals, and unblock cross-team dependencies
- Build trust and clear communication channels with engineering stakeholders across the company
Our take
The massive amounts of data that telecom companies hold on their customers, and the various weak spots in mobile networks, offer many lucrative possibilities for hackers. With massive mobile network data breaches affecting the likes of US telecom giant AT&T, Cape is a mobile network responding with a way to reconcile personal privacy and national security.
Cape positions itself as a privacy-first mobile network, offering 5G and 4G speeds with more privacy. It collects minimal personally identifiable information from its customers as well as offering spam protection, hardened account security and firewall. The network itself piggybacks on existing cellular networks and uses advanced encryption and data protocols to protect its customers.
The company has attracted good investment and secured contracts with the US military because of the network's ability to contribute to national security. Cape only came out of stealth in 2024, though, and its first steps will be to provide its users with eSIMs. A partnership with UScellular has helped grow the company's market share, and it's now available nationwide. 2026 Series C funding is being used to further grow its customer base and accelerate R&D efforts.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2026
$100m
SERIES C
Mar 2025
$15m
SERIES B
Total funding: $176m
Company benefits
- Medical insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid maternity leave
- Paid paternity leave
- Commuter benefits
- Disability insurance
Company HQ
North Rosslyn, Arlington, VA
Leadership
John Doyle
(Founder & CEO)Currently Board Member at Vannevar Labs. Previously held positions at Palantir Technologies and was a Judicial Law Clerk at Eastern District of Virginia.
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