Technical Program Manager, GenAI

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Scope, plan, and deliver technical programs for model development, driving teams towards best-practices on delivering research to production.
• Enable cross-functional teams working on frontier model capabilities to advance the state-of-the-art research in Gemini models.
• Proactively identify and manage risks, dependencies, and changing circumstances, implementing timely solutions.
• Apply technical knowledge to identify and execute pragmatic solutions, particularly as they help unblock novel modeling techniques.
• Apply expertise in program management methodologies, tools, and relevant industry knowledge on AI research to drive program success.
• Partner with multiple senior stakeholders across the organization, building, maintaining, and growing relationships with key stakeholders.
• Partner closely with research, engineering, and product teams to ensure seamless delivery of models and relevant evaluation results.
• Deploy technical judgement to steer and address critical needs for teams experimenting with and deploying novel research techniques.
• Ensure information is flowing through your programs, keeping leads, team members, and partners up to date.

Requirements

• Technical degree or advanced working knowledge.
• Industry experience to partner on technical strategy, with a strong track record of successful program delivery.
• Proven ability to navigate fast-paced, ever-evolving environments, demonstrating resourcefulness and creativity in solving complex challenges and implementing scalable solutions.
• Excellent technical understanding of language models and software engineering, and strong communication skills with the ability to distill sophisticated technical ideas to broad audiences including leadership.
• Ability to quickly learn new technical domains, gaining sufficient working knowledge to understand the challenges and risks while balancing perspective and holding a broader view of trade-offs and opportunities.
• Demonstrated ability to improve processes, workflows, and governance models to enhance efficiency within development teams.
• Experience working with senior leadership, confidently communicating challenges and risks while proposing new solutions.
• Experience working in highly dynamic, fast-paced, and ambiguous environments.
• Passionate about AGI, and proactive about learning and acquiring knowledge to enhance domain knowledge across evolving areas.

Nice to Have

• Degree in Computer Science
• Experience in a similar role within the AI / ML field
• Knowledge and understanding of state-of-the-art model development techniques
• Experience in a fast-paced research environment

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science (preferred)

Benefits & Perks

• The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $183,000 - $271,000 + bonus + benefits.