Staff Technical Program Manager (AI Foundations)

TL;DR

Staff Technical Program Manager (AI Foundations): Owning the delivery of critical AI Foundations programs spanning AI/ML platforms, GenOS capabilities, agentic ecosystems, observability, Responsible AI, and platform adoption with an accent on translating AI strategy into executable roadmaps, milestones, and success metrics. Focus on driving alignment across AI standards, governance, compliance, and quality, and providing executive-level visibility through clear, concise updates.

Location: Must be in office 3 days per week in Mountain View, California or San Diego, California.

Salary: $165,500 - $240,500

Company

hirify.global is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve.

What you will do

• Own delivery of critical AI Foundations programs spanning AI/ML platforms, GenOS capabilities, agentic ecosystems, observability, Responsible AI, and platform adoption.
• Lead cross-functional execution across 20–30+ engineering, product, infrastructure, data, and governance teams distributed globally.
• Partner with engineering and architecture leaders to translate AI strategy into executable roadmaps, milestones, and success metrics.
• Establish execution rigor: dependency management, risk identification, trade-off decisions, and proactive mitigation in highly ambiguous environments.
• Support AI platform adoption and maturity, ensuring teams can move from experimentation to production safely and efficiently.
• Provide executive-level visibility through clear, concise updates that synthesize technical complexity into business-relevant insights.

Requirements

• 8+ years of Technical Program Management experience, leading large-scale, cross-org platform or infrastructure initiatives.
• Strong experience with AI/ML or GenAI platforms, including understanding of AI/ML lifecycles, model training, inference, and observability concepts.
• Experience operating in highly complex, ambiguous environments with rapidly evolving technology and priorities.
• Proven ability to scale execution across multiple concurrent programs with interdependencies.
• Strong technical depth across cloud, platform, and infrastructure systems (e.g., AWS, distributed systems, APIs, CI/CD).
• Demonstrated success influencing senior engineering and product leaders without direct authority.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI/ML platforms, GenAI systems, or agentic architectures.
• Familiarity with concepts such as model orchestration, RAG, evaluation frameworks, observability, and Responsible AI.
• Experience driving platform adoption and capabilities across multiple teams, not just delivering platform features.
• Background working on foundational platforms used by many product teams.
• Ability to reason about cost, scale, and efficiency in AI/ML systems (e.g., model usage, infrastructure trade-offs).

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach.
• May be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs.
• Drive real impact across TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, Mailchimp, and beyond.
• Shape how AI is built, governed, and scaled across hirify.global.