Senior Technical Program Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Colombia, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of the delivery process for OpenMined's key projects, ScreamingFace and AI Oversight.

• Design, implement, and consistently enhance project management methodologies for an AI-driven team.

• Develop AI agents and automations to provide status updates, activity summaries, identify risks, flag inactive tasks, and maintain project plans.

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

• Transform quarterly OKRs into scheduled, sequenced plans and keep them updated as research findings and priorities evolve.

• Manage a regularly updated product roadmap that aligns with grant applications and funder reports.

• Handle cross-team dependencies across various boards, teams, and external partners; identify and address any blockers.

• Oversee the use of Linear and Asana project management tools, ensuring that tool statuses accurately reflect reality.

• Connect GitHub work to Linear issues in active repositories and maintain visibility into pull request reviews, releases, and repository ownership.

• Monitor and report on milestones, cycle times, and OKR progress to leadership; highlight slipping dates along with trade-off options.

• Coordinate partner pilots, program launches, research fellowship deliverables, and grant-related milestones.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years in technical project or program management, successfully delivering complex software projects with product and engineering teams; experience from a software engineering background will also be taken into account.

• Experience in establishing or revamping a project management practice, including planning cycles, tools, and standards that the team continues to utilize.

• Expertise in shaping project management for AI-driven teams and collaborating with engineers who use AI coding agents.

• Daily use of AI in project management tasks and experience in building or implementing AI agents, automations, or workflows for status reporting, risk identification, planning, or tracker maintenance, yielding tangible results.

• Proven ability to deliver projects amidst continuous shipping and technical uncertainties in research and development, 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, pull requests, and architectural documents.

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

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, adept at conveying status, risks, and trade-offs to engineers, executives, and funders.

• Significant overlap with US Eastern business hours: local time should be between one hour behind and two hours ahead of ET.

• Preferred qualifications include experience with fully remote distributed teams; mentoring or managing project/program managers; familiarity with LLMs, AI assessment, AI safety, or privacy-enhancing technologies; experience in early-stage startups or research labs; involvement with grant- or partner-funded projects; managing external partner pilots or integrations; and contributions to open-source projects.

🏝️ Benefits

• Mission-Driven Work: Be part of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that prioritizes social impact over profit, giving you the opportunity to make a significant difference in the world.

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

• Collaborative Global Team: Join a vibrant, international team that values teamwork and diversity.

• Flexible Work Hours: Enjoy the freedom to organize your work hours in a way that best suits your life and productivity needs.

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