Senior Technical Program Manager coordinating ScreamingFace and AI Oversight delivery at OpenMined, a nonprofit building open-source privacy and AI solutions. Managing roadmaps, dependencies, tooling, and AI-enhanced project practices.
Responsibilities
Own end-to-end delivery for OpenMined's flagship initiatives, ScreamingFace and AI Oversight, from quarterly goals through milestones, dependencies, and release dates.
Design, run, and improve project management practices for an AI-native team.
Use and build AI agents and automations for status updates, activity summaries, risk detection, stale-work detection, and plan maintenance.
Establish project management standards and templates, coach product and engineering leads, and develop team-wide project management skills.
Convert quarterly OKRs into dated, sequenced plans and update them as research and priorities change.
Maintain a regularly reviewed product roadmap that supports grant proposals and funder reports.
Own cross-team dependencies across boards, teams, and external partners, resolving blockers proactively.
Own Linear and Asana project management tooling conventions and ensure tool status matches reality.
Link GitHub work to Linear issues across active repositories and maintain visibility into PR review, release status, and repository ownership.
Track and report milestone, cycle-time, and OKR progress to leadership; flag schedule risks and trade-off options early.
Coordinate external deliverables including partner pilots, program launches, and grant milestones.
Work with the Chief Product Officer and product, engineering, research, and partnerships teams.
Requirements
7+ years of technical project or program management, delivering complex software with product and engineering teams; transferable experience such as a software engineering background will also be considered.
Built or rebuilt a project management practice, including planning cadences, tooling, and standards adopted by a team.
Shaped project management for AI-native teams and worked with engineers using AI coding agents.
Uses AI daily in project management, including AI agents, automations, or workflows for status reporting, risk detection, planning, or tracker hygiene, with concrete results.
Experience delivering under continuous shipping and technical uncertainty in R&D, ML/AI, infrastructure, or developer platforms.
Computer science or other technical degree, or 3+ years working as a software engineer.
Comfortable reading code, PRs, and architecture documents.
Deep, hands-on use of engineering trackers such as Linear, Jira, and GitHub; experience designing team workflows.
Clear, concise written and spoken communication for engineers, executives, and funders.
Preferred: experience with fully remote distributed teams.
Preferred: mentoring or managing project/program managers or helping hire them.
Preferred: experience with LLMs, AI evaluation, AI safety, or privacy-enhancing technologies.
Preferred: early-stage startup or research lab experience building delivery processes from scratch.
Preferred: grant-funded or partner-funded deliverables.
Preferred: coordinating external partners on pilots or integrations.
Preferred: open-source project experience.
Benefits
Mission-Driven Work: Be part of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, focused on social impact rather than profit, offering the chance to make a meaningful difference in the world.
Open Source Contribution: Make a real impact by contributing to an Open Source project that benefits a broad community.
Collaborative Global Team: Join a dynamic, international team that values collaboration and diversity.
Flexible Work Hours: Enjoy the autonomy to structure your work hours around what best fits your life and productivity.
Fully Remote Work: Work remotely within the location requirements for this role.
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