Ai2 · 1 month ago
Senior Technical Program Manager, AI Platform
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$138K/yr - $206K/yr
8+ years expAi2 is a nonprofit AI research institute seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to join their Horizontal Technical Program Management team. The role focuses on driving the AI Platform program, collaborating with engineering and research leadership to enhance the software infrastructure that supports cutting-edge AI research.
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Responsibilities
Drive the AI Platform program – Partner with engineering and research leadership to develop and execute against the roadmap for key internal tools and services that support LLM pretraining, large-scale inference, and petabyte scale data management
Gather requirements and drive stakeholder alignment – Drive internal processes for collecting requirements for a diverse set of research projects and drive the process of converting them to clear product requirements. Act as the primary liaison between research teams and engineering
Facilitate internal change management – Research teams depend on our software for 1k+ GPU jobs; you’ll be responsible for making sure the release process is clear, well communicated, and non-disruptive
Run operational reviews & reporting – Establish and maintain regular reporting mechanisms for platform and team health, including GPU budget planning, operational reviews, and team velocity tracking
Program leadership – Own monthly leadership reviews, ensuring leadership visibility into progress, risks, and outcomes
Platform evolution & researcher experience – Drive releases, optimizations, and integrations that scale adoption across researchers, engineers and external partners, while ensuring our internal tools (e.g., docs, job scheduler) are intuitive, reliable, and enhance efficiency
Qualification
Required
8+ years of technical program or product management or related experience, ideally supporting platforms, infrastructure, or developer/research tools
Strong track record of leading complex, cross-functional technical initiatives from strategy to execution
Expert level understanding of the computational requirements for AI research
Skilled at building and running reporting mechanisms, roadmaps, and metrics dashboards that provide transparency and accountability
Excellent written and verbal skills; able to influence and align diverse stakeholders, from researchers, engineers, developers, and leadership
Proactive, resourceful, and comfortable operating in a dynamic environment where priorities evolve
Skilled at guiding high-stakes decisions and building alignment across diverse stakeholders
Benefits
Team members and their families are covered by medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, basic accidental death and dismemberment insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and an employee assistance program.
Team members are able to enroll in our voluntary life insurance program, our voluntary accidental death and dismemberment program, our health savings account plan, our healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and our health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
Team members are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan.
Team members will receive $125 per month to assist with commuting or internet expenses and will also receive $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
Team members will also receive up to ten sick days per year, up to seven personal days per year, up to 20 vacation days per year and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
Team members will be able to receive annual bonuses and can participate in the long-term incentive plan.
Company
Ai2
We are a Seattle-based non-profit AI research institute founded in 2014 by the late Paul Allen.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$152MKey Investors
NVIDIA
2025-08-14Grant· $152M
Leadership Team
Chris Emura
Executive Director, Head of Applied Science & Technology
David Albright
Head of Design and Communications
Recent News
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