P-1 AI is hiring a Technical Program Manager to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish, ensuring alignment with business objectives. You'll join our team of engineers and AI researchers building AI's most impactful use cases.
What You'll Do
- Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of multiple high-impact engineering initiatives, ensuring alignment with technical architecture, timelines, and quality standards.
- Ingest and structure engineering requests from Slack, leadership, and go-to-market teams, transforming them into clearly scoped, actionable tasks tracked to completion.
- Build and manage detailed technical project roadmaps for internal and customer-facing efforts, using project tools to track milestones and ensure on-time delivery.
- Collaborate with engineering leadership on sprint planning, drive best practices, unblock teams, and support continuous process improvements to maintain velocity.
- Support strategic decisions on team assignments, capacity, and workload distribution to ensure the right people are solving the most important problems.
- Identify potential risks in architecture, system dependencies, and technical scalability, report them to engineering leadership, and execute mitigation strategies.
- Communicate project status, technical challenges, and outcomes to engineering and company leadership, ensuring transparency and alignment with business objectives.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation including project plans, status reports, change logs, and KPIs to keep teams aligned and informed.
What We're Looking For
- Experience in technical project management, preferably within AI or a physical engineering sector such as industrials, aerospace, or automotive.
- Proficiency with a broad range of project management tools.
- A strong understanding of AI technologies, cloud platforms, architecture, APIs, and software development life cycles.
- Excellent verbal and written communication abilities, with experience presenting technical roadmaps and project updates to engineering leadership.
- Deep hands-on experience with Agile methodologies.
Nice to Have
- A proven track record in managing complex engineering projects from conception through completion.
- Experience working with or within physical engineering sectors.
- Start-up experience and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; you are self-directed and self-motivated.
- Based in San Francisco, or willingness to relocate.
Team & Environment
You will work with people across our core engineering, customer engineering, and AI teams.
Work Mode
This role is located in San Francisco.
