Technical Program Manager, Foundations Data and Operations
Leads complex search research and engineering programs across retrieval, indexing, model training, and infrastructure. The role requires substantial technical experience, strong program execution, product judgment, and the ability to align cross-functional teams.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead programs spanning model training, information retrieval, large-scale indexing, and search infrastructure.
- Translate evolving goals into prioritized workstreams with owners, milestones, dependencies, and resource requirements.
- Partner with research, engineering, and product leaders to define requirements and make tradeoffs across scope, quality, performance, timelines, and cost.
- Establish success metrics and use them to guide priorities and track improvements in coverage, answer quality, responsiveness, and trust.
- Identify technical and cross-functional risks, drive blockers to resolution, and communicate progress and decisions to teams and leadership.
- Coordinate with product, policy, legal, and external partners on data access, use, and presentation.
- Manage dependencies with data providers and build repeatable processes for research and engineering execution.
Requirements
- Substantial technical experience delivering complex programs across multiple engineering teams and large technical stacks.
- Experience with search, information retrieval, indexing, or similarly complex systems.
- Ability to understand technical architectures and tradeoffs and communicate effectively with engineers and researchers.
- Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous research problems while maintaining ownership and momentum.
- Strong product judgment and program execution discipline.
- Resourceful, hands-on approach to program strategy and execution details.
- Strong cross-functional communication, relationship-building, and influencing skills.
Skills
Information Retrieval, Search Infrastructure, Indexing, Model Training, Program Management, Technical Architecture, Product Strategy, Success Metrics, Dependency Management, Risk Management
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