[Hiring] Senior Program Manager @Centific

Role Description

Centific is looking for a Sr. Program Manager to drive execution across multilingual AI initiatives — managing enterprise client accounts and coordinating cross-functional delivery for localization, language-data, and multilingual model workstreams.

• Own end-to-end program management for multilingual AI initiatives, from planning through delivery
• Serve as the primary point of contact for enterprise accounts, managing relationships and ensuring delivery meets client expectations
• Coordinate across engineering, linguistics/localization, and data operations teams to keep programs on schedule
• Track and report on program health, risks, and dependencies to senior stakeholders and clients
• Manage vendor/partner coordination for language-specific data and localization work
• Drive process standardization across multilingual program workstreams
• Identify opportunities to expand scope or deepen engagement within existing enterprise accounts
• Manage and mentor a delivery team
• Ensure program outcomes deliver measurable business value

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in localization, with direct experience managing enterprise accounts
• Experience managing cross-functional, globally distributed teams
• Strong client-facing and stakeholder management skills, with executive-level reporting experience
• Familiarity with multilingual NLP, localization workflows, or language-data pipelines is a plus
• Fluency in English required; additional language proficiency is a plus given the client-facing, multilingual nature of the role
• Advanced communication, negotiation & reporting skills
• Strong financial & resource planning

Requirements

• Salary: $140,000-$180,000

Benefits

• Centific is an equal-opportunity employer.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, familial status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
• We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.