# Director, Technical Program Manager

**Company:** [Scale AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/scale-ai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $242k – $302k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Ai/Ml Lifecycle, Llm Fine-Tuning, Jira Align, Stakeholder Management, Systems Thinking, Organizational Design, Program Delivery, Risk Management, Cross-Functional Communication
**Posted:** 2026-06-02

> As the Director of TPM, Enterprise, you will build, scale, and lead a world-class TPM team, establishing the strategic framework for executing enterprise-grade initiatives. This role requires deep technical fluency in ML/AI lifecycles and strong organizational design skills.

## Job Description

## About This Role
As the Director of TPM, Enterprise, you are not just managing programs; you are the architect of a new organizational capability. You will be responsible for building, scaling, and leading a world-class TPM team from the ground up. Your mission is to establish the strategic framework for how we execute enterprise-grade initiatives, ensuring data quality, operational efficiency, and the seamless integration of AI capabilities across all business units.
You will act as a strategic partner to Engineering and Product leadership, transforming high-level business vision into a rigorous, scalable execution engine. This is a high-stakes leadership role requiring a blend of deep technical fluency (particularly in ML/AI lifecycles), organizational design, and the ability to influence at the highest levels of the company.

## Key Responsibilities

*   **Team Building & Leadership:** Recruit, hire, and mentor a high-performing team of Technical Program Managers. Define the team’s culture, operating model, and career development paths.
*   **Strategic Roadmap Ownership:** Define the long-term execution strategy for Enterprise programs, ensuring alignment with company-wide OKRs and product milestones.
*   **Organizational Design:** Establish standardized processes for program delivery, risk management, and cross-functional communication that can scale with the company's growth.
*   **Cross-Functional Orchestration:** Serve as the primary bridge between Engineering, Product, and Executive leadership. Resolve high-level dependencies and resource conflicts across Platform, Data, and Product teams.
*   **Executive Communication:** Translate complex technical roadmaps and GenAI initiatives into clear business outcomes, risk profiles, and delivery forecasts for the C-suite and Board.
*   **Operational Excellence:** Drive the adoption of enterprise-grade standards for data quality and infrastructure reliability. Ensure that "Enterprise" isn't just a label, but a measurable standard of excellence across all BUs.

## Ideally You’d Have

*   10+ years of experience in Technical Program Management or Engineering Leadership, with at least 4+ years in a people management capacity leading other TPMs or Engineers.
*   Proven track record of building teams from scratch in high-growth, fast-paced environments (e.g., Series C through IPO or within a major tech incumbent).
*   Deep expertise in the AI/ML lifecycle, including LLM fine-tuning, performance evaluation, and the infrastructure requirements for deploying GenAI at scale.
*   Expert-level Stakeholder Management: Ability to navigate complex organizational politics and drive consensus among diverse technical and non-technical leaders.
*   Systems Thinking: The ability to look beyond individual projects to see the broader technical ecosystem and identify "force multipliers" for the organization.
*   Strategic Tooling Proficiency: Experience implementing enterprise-level planning and tracking frameworks (e.g., Jira Align, specialized roadmap software, or custom internal dashboards).

## Nice to Have

*   **Engineering Background:** A background as a Software or ML Engineer, providing the "technical gravity" needed to earn the respect of senior architects and principals.
*   **Platform-First Mindset:** Experience building and driving adoption of internal developer platforms or horizontal services used by thousands of internal stakeholders.
*   **Change Management Expertise:** Proven ability to lead large-scale organizational shifts in methodology or technical architecture.

## Compensation

The base salary range for this full-time position in the location of San Francisco is: $241,600—$302,000 USD

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