Technical Program Manager, Public Sector
Columbia, SC - USA
Job Summary
Scales Public Sector customer base is growing rapidly and you will ensure that these customers become passionate lifelong Scale partners. As a member of our Public Sector Delivery team you are a catalyst willing to go deep get technical and drive change. You are the ultimate hands-on leader triaging customer issues and support using data and analytics to align internal resources around Scales hardest problems and driving the creation of tools that add direct value to Scales Public Sector customers. All of this serves an ultimate goal of delivering outsized value in supporting our Public Sector customers AI/ML objectives.
Your natural inclination is to dive into both technology and organizational processes to craft effective solutions and gain efficiencies. You are biased towards finding not just one-off solutions but repeatable and scalable ways to ensure we continually deliver on customer objectives. You have a track record of driving technical projects to completion and stewarding lasting organizational change. And you are naturally empathetic have high EQ and excel at building long-term relationships through diligent problem solving domain competence and thoughtful strategic discussions
You will:
- Drive innovation and transformation by diving deep into technical and operational challenges solving undefined problems and delivering impactful solutions for Public Sector customers
- Leverage technical concepts tools and expertise to create solutions from scratch or drastically improve existing solutions
- Use data analytics and technical expertise to align internal resources and create tools that directly add value to customers in the public sector space
- Transition AI/ML technologies and processes into working Public Sector products / solutions even when requirements are undefined or ambiguous
- Partner with engineering operations and other public sector teams to build and deliver AI systems tailored to unique government use cases in the computer vision and generative AI domains
- Lead a cross-functional team to exceed the customers AI/ML objectives
- Manage the long-term health of the customer base by identifying and preempting areas of risk or concern
- Strategically identify ways we can make customer success repeatable and solve issues for future customers
- Address engineering problems alongside the product development teams
Must Haves:
- An active TS/SCI clearance (Full Scope Polygraph is a nice to have)
- 3 years of experience succeeding in stakeholder management or customer-facing role
- A technical background (education or professional experience with CS Economics Statistics Engineering)
- A deep understanding of ML operations process
- A track record of structured analytics-driven problem-solving
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to be forward deployed and willingness to travel at least 25% of the time (50% travel is a nice to have)
We have a diverse team with a variety of skill sets many have:
- 10 years of professional experience often in a customer-facing technical program management role in industry or government.
- Prior experience at an API technology company and / or managing technical customers using an API
- Proficiency in Python SQL or other programming languages
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The base salary range for this full-time position in the location of Washington DC is:
$187200 - $234000 USD
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About Us:
At Scale our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the worlds most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the worlds leading models and help enterprises and governments build deploy and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta Ernst & Young Mayo Clinic Time Inc. the Government of Qatar and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.
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Required Experience:
Manager
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