Manager Technical Program Management

Persons in these roles are expected to work from our offices in Seattle.

Our base salary range is $137520 $206280 and in addition we have generous bonus plans to provide a competitive compensation package.

Who You Are:

You are an experienced technical manager who takes pride in building highperforming resilient teams. You set a high bar and empower your team to meet it by building on individual strengths and supporting with clarity and empathy. You enjoy being handson finding energy in directly contributing and driving key projects alongside your team.

Fastpaced ambiguous environments dont intimidate you; they motivate you. Youre a steady hand in dynamic situations and are trusted to bring focus when things are unclear. Your adaptability allows you to flex to the needs of different types of teams and contexts whether they are researchdriven engineeringdriven or external partnerships.

Who We Are:

Youll be joining the program management team within our Strategic Infrastructure (SI) group responsible for driving the definition and of AI2s ambitious flagship projects including truly open foundation models AI agents for science and AIforenvironment initiatives. Our centralized team works directly with worldclass researchers to connect the dots between R&D engineering and realworld impact. We are deeply involved in technical details while also serving as stewards of the institutes bigpicture strategy. Our work spans all levels of the organizationfrom coordinating with the team operating our stateoftheart GPU cluster to collaborating directly with executives to drive clarity decisionmaking and prioritization.

Your Next Challenge:

In this role you will lead technical program management for AI2s Horizontals teams centralized groups that support critical functions across our entire research and product portfolio. These include compute infrastructure data annotation release management strategic partnerships model inference and external user interfaces.

Horizontals exist to break down silos elevate best practices and accelerate progress across all programs. The TPMs on this team collaborate across a diverse crossfunctional stakeholder group comms design research and engineering and contribute to every major initiative at AI2. In this pivotal highinteraction role they need exceptional management to support them.

As the leader for this area youll develop a strategic view of how projects across the organization connect and use that insight to identify opportunities for shared investment and efficiency. Youll work with your team to shape approaches and break down goals into actionable work moving the TPM function from tactical support toward proactive visionary .

The essential functions include but are not limited to the following:

• Manage and support a growing team of TPMs helping them thrive in a fastpaced environment with shifting priorities.
• Define highlevel strategy and translate it into clear actionable assignments for your team.
• Create a collaborative energized and adaptable team culture that holds a high bar for quality.
• Hire mentor and retain highperforming TPMs. Provide coaching and career development that enables longterm success.
• Act as a playercoach stepping in to own projects directly as needed based on team capacity and your individual strengths.
• Ensure transparent communication with leadership and other stakeholders including progress updates risks and mitigation strategies.
• Lead crossfunctional planning and alignment with partners across design communications ML platform engineering fullstack engineering and research.
• Understand the broader context of each initiative to identify risks surface opportunities and drive strategic course corrections when needed.

What Youll Need:

• 8 years of experience in product or program management.
• 2 years of management experience in highly crossfunctional settings managing at least one direct report.
• Proven experience hiring and recruiting for highperforming teams.
• Strong relationshipbuilding and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with the ability to tailor messaging across technical nontechnical and executive audience.
• A strong sense of accountability and a track record of owning outcomes.
• Experience working with a range of engineering teams and familiarity with agile development practices.
• BS degree in Computer Science Data Science Statistics Engineering Applied Mathematics or equivalent professional experience.

Bonus qualifications

• Experience in a start up environment
• 2 year experience with modern AI/ML technologies

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time.
• The ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.
• The ability to observe details at close range.
• Can work under deadlines.

A Little More About Ai2:

Ai2 is a Seattle based nonprofit AI research institute founded in 2014 by the late Paul Allen. Our mission is building breakthrough AI to solve the worlds biggest problems. We develop foundational AI research and innovation to deliver realworld impact through largescale open models data robotics conservation and beyond.

In addition to Ai2s core mission we also aim to contribute to humanity through our treatment of each member of the Ai2 Team. Some highlights are:

• We are a learning organization because everything Ai2 does is groundbreaking we are learning every day. Similarly through weekly Ai2 Academy lectures a wide variety of worldclass AI experts as guest speakers and our commitment to your personal ongoing education Ai2 is a place where you will have opportunities to continue learning alongside your coworkers.
• We value diversity We seek to hire support and promote people from all genders ethnicities and all levels of experience regardless of age. We particularly encourage applications from women nonbinary individuals people of color members of the LGBTQA community and people with disabilities of any kind.
• We value inclusion We understand the value that peoples individual experiences and perspectives can bring to an organization and we are building a culture in which all voices are heard respected and considered.
• We emphasize a healthy work/life balance we believe our team members are happiest and most productive when their work/life balance is optimized. While we value powerful research results which drive our mission forward we also value dinner with family weekend time and vacation time. We offer generous paid vacation and sick leave as well as family leave.
• We are collaborative and transparent we consider ourselves a team all moving with a common purpose. We are quick to cheer our successes and even quicker to share and jointly problem solve our failures.
• We are in Seattle and our office is on the water! We have mountains we have lakes we have four seasons we bike to work we have a vibrant theater scene and we have so much else. We even have kayaks for you to paddle right outside our front door. We welcome interest from applicants from outside of the United States.
• We are friendly chances are you will like every one of the 200 (and growing) people who work here. We do.

Ai2 is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race religion color national origin sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender gender identity gender expression transgender status sexual stereotypes age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics. You may view the related Know Your Rights compliance poster and the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision by clicking on their corresponding links.

This employer participates in EVerify and will provide the federal government with your Form I9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If EVerify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you including terminating your employment. Employers can only use EVerify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I9.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants with disabilities to the full extent required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you feel you need a reasonable accommodation pursuant to the ADA you are encouraged to contact us at

Benefits:

• Team members and their families are covered by medical dental vision basic life insurance basic accidental death and dismemberment insurance shortterm disability longterm disability and an employee assistance program.
• Team members are able to enroll in our voluntary life insurance program our voluntary accidental death and dismemberment program our health savings account plan our healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan and our health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
• Team members are able to enroll in our companys 401k plan.
• Team members will receive $125 per month to assist with commuting or internet expenses and will also receive $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
• Team members will also receive up to ten sick days per year up to seven personal days per year up to 20 vacation days per year and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Team members will be able to receive annual bonuses and can participate in the longterm incentive plan.

Note: This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the team members(s) of this position. Team members will be required to follow any other jobrelated instructions and to perform any other jobrelated duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully the team member(s) will possess the skills aptitudes and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge skills or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract implied or otherwise other than an at will relationship.