Senior Engineering Program Manager - GenAI
$162,000–$234,600 year
On-siteSan Jose, California, United States
Job Summary
Define and lead the roadmap for GenAI-powered features from concept to launch, making calls on model bets and platform direction. Architect and ship agentic/RAG systems, partnering directly with engineers on design and delivery from prototype to production. Drive adoption by running pilots, gathering usage signals, and iterating to move features from beta to default usage. Set facilitation for prioritization and resourcing calls across workstreams, running steering reviews to resolve trade-offs between engineering, design, and product. Work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers on model selection, evaluation systems, and MLOps practices, providing hands-on technical review throughout the build. Translate build status and risks into clear executive narratives for leadership while codifying reusable patterns and instrumentation to measure engagement and business impact.
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years in technical program management
- direct experience shipping AI/ML or GenAI-powered features in production
- Working fluency in agentic architectures, RAG pipelines, prompt/eval frameworks, and MLOps
- Track record of owning a feature from zero-to-one through scale
- including adoption strategy and outcome measurement
- Strong executive communication skills
- comfortable distilling technical complexity into clear risk and status narratives for leadership
- Bias toward direct, risk-calibrated judgment over neutral status reporting
- flag what's actually at risk, not just what's on track
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