Technical Program Manager, Enterprise
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
As aTechnical Program Manager you will partner with our Frontier Agent Engineering teams on enterprise customer engagements owning operational execution and delivery of our technical work by managing timelines milestones risks and dependencies across technical deliverables. You will drive the strategic alignment and end-to-end execution of our most critical Enterprise initiatives. This is a high-leverage technical leadership role where you will own program delivery from initial scoping to measurable enterprise-wide adoption. You will serve as the core communication backbone and connective tissue between engineering product and executive leadership.
You are not just managing timelines; you are accountable for systemic measurable outcomes driving efficiency across the full agentic application development process. Operating in a hyper-growth demanding AI environment you will translate technical complexity into clear execution strategies proactively mitigate risks and ensure our engineering teams deliver reliable high-value solutions at scale.
Key Responsibilities
- End-to-End Program Ownership: Own the strategic planning scheduling and high-velocity execution of multiple enterprise-grade programs ensuring on-time delivery against aggressive product goals. Run weekly cross-functional syncs surface blockers drive decisions.
- Cross-Functional Architecture Integration: Manage complex dependencies and technical communication across core teams (e.g. Platform Forward Deployed Engineering Product) to seamlessly deliver frontier agents to our enterprise customers.
- Technical Translation & Executive Influence: Synthesize deep technical complexities into concise actionable insights for both engineers and C-suite stakeholders. Drive absolute clarity across the delivery team regarding priorities risks and strategic outcomes.
- Risk & Dependency Mitigation: Proactively identify track and architect mitigations for technical risks unique to enterprise AI deployment maintaining momentum in the face of ambiguity.
- Process Evolution: Modernize and scale agile execution frameworks (e.g. Jira Linear) to support rapid iterative machine learning and software development lifecycles.
- Metrics-Driven Accountability: Define track and report on key program health metrics delivery forecasts and engineering bottlenecks directly to executive leadership.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5 Enterprise-Scale Experience: 5 years of experience as a Technical Program Manager or in a technical leadership role managing complex large-scale software engineering or machine learning development projects.
- Engineering Domain Expertise: 2 years of dedicated experience managing programs focused directly on core engineering infrastructure platform services or distributed systems.
- AI/ML Literacy: Strong foundational understanding of the Generative AI lifecycle including LLM utilization for structured downstream tasks model fine-tuning and performance evaluation.
- Masterful Communication: Proven track record of presenting to and influencing executive-level stakeholders with the ability to translate complex technical challenges into clear business impacts.
- Execution Excellence: Advanced proficiency with iterative development methodologies and modern project management tooling (Jira Linear etc.).
- Growth Mindset: An insatiable appetite for learning and deeply engaging with modern ML/GenAI practices and infrastructure.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Engineering Roots: Strong software engineering fundamentals ideally with prior professional experience as a software engineer or data developer before transitioning into program management.
- Platform Adoption Track Record: Proven success driving the internal adoption of technical platforms SDKs or APIs across disparate product lines or independent business units.
- Data-Centric AI Familiarity: Direct experience working with data quality pipelines LLM-as-a-judge evaluation frameworks or automated RLHF systems.
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Please reference the job postings subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes the base salary range for this full-time position in the locations of San Francisco New York Seattle is:
$211200 - $264000 USD
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