Senior Technical Program Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the complete delivery process for OpenMined's key initiatives, ScreamingFace and AI Oversight, overseeing quarterly objectives, milestones, dependencies, and release timelines.

• Develop, implement, and enhance project management methodologies tailored for an AI-driven team.

• Utilize and create AI agents and automation tools for status reporting, activity summaries, risk identification, stale-work detection, and plan maintenance.

• Set up project management standards and templates, mentor product and engineering leaders, and cultivate project management expertise across the team.

• Transform quarterly OKRs into scheduled, organized plans and revise them as research and priorities evolve.

• Maintain a regularly updated product roadmap that aids in grant proposals and funder reports.

• Manage cross-team dependencies across various boards, teams, and external collaborators, proactively addressing blockers.

• Oversee the conventions for Linear and Asana project management tools, ensuring tool statuses accurately reflect project realities.

• Link GitHub activities to Linear issues across active repositories and ensure visibility into PR reviews, release statuses, and repository ownership.

• Monitor and report on milestones, cycle times, and OKR progress to leadership; promptly highlight schedule risks and trade-off options.

• Coordinate external deliverables, such as partner pilots, program launches, and grant milestones.

• Collaborate with the Chief Product Officer and product, engineering, research, and partnership teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years in technical project or program management, successfully delivering intricate software alongside product and engineering teams; transferable experience, such as a software engineering background, will also be taken into account.

• Experience in establishing or refining a project management practice, including planning cycles, tools, and standards embraced by a team.

• Developed project management strategies for AI-native teams and collaborated with engineers utilizing AI coding agents.

• Daily use of AI in project management, involving AI agents, automations, or workflows for status updates, risk detection, planning, or tracker maintenance, with tangible results.

• Proven experience delivering under continuous shipping and technical ambiguity in R&D, ML/AI, infrastructure, or developer platforms.

• A degree in computer science or a related technical field, or at least 3 years of experience as a software engineer.

• Proficient in reading code, PRs, and architecture documentation.

• Extensive, hands-on experience with engineering trackers such as Linear, Jira, and GitHub; skilled in designing team workflows.

• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely in writing and speech to engineers, executives, and funders.

• Preferred: experience working with fully remote distributed teams.

• Preferred: experience in mentoring or managing project/program managers or participating in their recruitment.

• Preferred: familiarity with LLMs, AI evaluation, AI safety, or privacy-enhancing technologies.

• Preferred: experience in early-stage startups or research labs developing delivery processes from the ground up.

• Preferred: experience with grant-funded or partner-funded projects.

• Preferred: experience coordinating external partners on pilots or integrations.

• Preferred: contributions to open-source projects.

🏝️ Benefits

• Mission-Driven Work: Join a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to social impact rather than profit, providing an opportunity to make a significant difference in the world.

• Open Source Contribution: Make a meaningful impact by contributing to an Open Source project that serves a wide community.

• Collaborative Global Team: Become part of a vibrant, international team that emphasizes collaboration and diversity.

• Flexible Work Hours: Enjoy the freedom to organize your work hours around what suits your life and productivity best.

• Fully Remote Work: Work remotely while adhering to the location requirements for this position.