Principal Program Manager (AI Transformation)

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States

Total cash range: $231,000–$323,500, with potential pay up to $369,500 based on sustained performance.

Company

hirify.global is a global travel company connecting travelers, partners, and advertisers through consumer brands, B2B travel services, and travel advertising.

What you will do

• Lead complex, multi-year enterprise transformation programs and portfolios across products, platforms, functions, and regions.
• Align senior technology, product, data, operations, and business leaders, resolving conflicts and managing dependencies.
• Establish governance, operating rhythms, decision forums, roadmaps, and measurement systems for predictable execution.
• Design culture-change strategies that build AI fluency, responsible experimentation, psychological safety, and new ways of working.
• Define outcome-oriented metrics and evidence-based narratives covering adoption, behavior change, delivery health, and business impact.
• Build reusable transformation playbooks, operating models, tooling, and responsible AI-enabled workflows while coaching leaders and senior practitioners.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, computer science, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of experience leading complex cross-functional transformation, change, or technology program portfolios in large, matrixed organizations.
• Proven ability to influence across organizations, navigate ambiguity, resolve complex conflicts, and build alignment without formal authority.
• Experience creating enterprise governance, delivery mechanisms, measurement frameworks, and operating models.
• Strong strategic communication, facilitation, storytelling, executive presence, active listening, and relationship-building skills.
• Technical fluency across systems, APIs, data flows, platform modernization, integrations, reliability, operational resilience, analytics, and AI-enabled tools.

Nice to have

• Experience leading global AI adoption, digital transformation, operating-model change, or workforce and culture transformation.
• Experience establishing responsible AI guardrails, adoption measurement, capability assessments, learning ecosystems, or champion networks.
• Thought leadership in transformation, change management, technical program management, organizational culture, responsible AI, or data-driven execution.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive environment built around traveler-first thinking, ownership, operational excellence, collaboration, and ambitious problem-solving.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program.
• Wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and IATAN membership.
• Support for accessibility and accommodations throughout the recruiting process.