Principal Technical Program Manager (AI)

Location: Remote; Seattle, United States or Sydney, Australia. hirify.global can hire in any country where it has a legal entity.

Base salary: $204,300–$266,725 in Zone A; $183,870–$240,053 in Zone B; $169,569–$221,382 in Zone C. Additional benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity may apply.

Company

hirify.global develops software products that support team collaboration and different types of work.

What you will do

• Set the long-term strategy and roadmap for the open-weight LLM inference platform based on business goals, customer needs, adoption barriers, and industry trends.
• Translate business goals into ranked technical problems involving cost per token, latency, throughput, reliability, and model coverage.
• Define and run programs for GPU capacity planning, inference optimization, model migrations, high availability, and performance.
• Build benchmarking and evaluation frameworks covering serving performance, model quality, and cost, and provide data-backed model selection recommendations.
• Partner with Security, Legal, Compliance, engineers, ML engineers, architects, cloud providers, and GPU providers to manage policies, trade-offs, dependencies, and safe adoption of open-weight and open-source models.
• Own programs end to end, including initiation, forecasting, budgeting, scheduling, delivery, and inference cost modeling.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience on software teams as a Development Manager or TPM, including 3+ years on ML, AI platform, or large-scale infrastructure programs.
• Working knowledge of LLM architecture, inference optimization, serving frameworks, and GPU infrastructure economics.
• Experience with multi-vendor GPU or inference-provider strategies and AI cost management.
• Experience with benchmarking and model evaluation methods.
• Understanding of system flows, block architectures, and APIs; writing or reading code is not expected.
• A track record of running end-to-end, complex, cross-organizational technical programs with significant budgets.
• Strategic thinking and the ability to turn business objectives into technical programs with measurable results.
• Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills, including influencing senior engineers and executives without direct authority.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible choice of working from an office, from home, or a combination of both.
• Health and wellbeing resources.
• Paid volunteer days.
• Benefits may include additional compensation, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
• Accommodations or adjustments can be supported during the recruitment process.