Fundamental

AI

SeniorTechnicalProgramManager

$175–245k ~AI est. San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Technical Program Manager at Fundamental. Skills: Technical Program Management, AI, SDLC, Tooling. Consolidate tools. Own SDLC”

What You'll Achieve.

Ship technology; Transform decision making; Accelerate delivery

Industry & Context.

AI
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis

Eligibility Requirements

Coordinating without managing

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

7+ years technical program management, 7+ years engineering management, 7+ years hybrid role, Machine learning development lifecycle experience, LLM development lifecycle experience, Track record of standing up SDLC, Track record of standing up tooling, Experience coordinating engineering across multiple time zones

Nice to Have

Migrated organization off tool sprawl, Experience with enterprise B2B SaaS, Experience with platform motion, Experience with Forward Deployed Engineering, Experience with solutions motion, Experience working alongside FDE team, Familiarity with model deployment, Familiarity with inference infrastructure, Familiarity with MLOps at production scale

What You'll Do.

Hold the line on deadlines

Give leadership forward view

Design automated development workflows

Bake in compliance reviews

Bake in security reviews

Bake in privacy reviews

Formalize FDE-to-Engineering handoff

Determine extension productization

Determine extension deprecation

Determine functionality fold-in

Kill downtime on dependencies

Facilitate cross-team technical definitions

Ensure early agreement on API signatures

Ensure early agreement on terminologies

Ensure early agreement on system design

Get capability across the line

Establish operational reviews

Run operational reviews

Surface what's on track

Surface what's blocked

Surface what needs decision

Work across departments

Collaborate for communication

Collaborate for coordination

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Senior engineers; Senior researchers; Product Manager; Heads of Engineering; Applied AI; Research; FDE team; Marketing; Sales

Communication Scope

Written communication; Async updates

Process & Methodology

SDLC, Roadmap planning

Full Job Description

ABOUT FUNDAMENTAL Fundamental is an AI company pioneering the future of enterprise decision-making. Founded by DeepMind alumni, Fundamental has developed NEXUS – the world's most powerful Large Tabular Model (LTM) – purpose-built for the structured records that actually drive enterprise decisions. Backed by world class investors and trusted by Fortune 100 companies, Fundamental unlocks trillions of dollars of value by giving businesses the Power to Predict. At Fundamental, you'll work on unprecedented technical challenges in foundation model development and build technology that transforms how the world's largest companies make decisions. This is your opportunity to be part of a category-defining company from the ground-up. Join the team defining the future of enterprise AI. ABOUT THE ROLE As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will own the "how" and "when" of everything the product and engineering organization ships. You'll partner directly with our Senior Product Manager (the "what" and "why"), the heads of Engineering, Applied AI, and Research, and the FDE team in the field. You will be the connective tissue between three highly capable teams that today coordinate through goodwill and Slack, and need a system. This is a hands-on role. You will not be managing a team of TPMs. You will be in the weeds: standardizing tools, ordering bugs, running the SDLC, and giving leadership an honest read on what is and isn't getting done. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Toolset standardization. You will consolidate tools to as few systems of record as possible, with a single source of truth for SDLC. Day-one priority. - SDLC end-to-end. Own Linear, partner to set real deadlines, hold the line on them, and give leadership an accurate six-month forward view of capacity across Applied AI, Engineering and Research. Design automated development workflows that can keep pace with AI-accelerated engineering, ensuring that compliance, security, and privacy reviews are inherently baked into t

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