[Hiring] Senior Technical Program Manager @OpenMined

Role Description

We're looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to own how OpenMined plans, tracks, and ships its most ambitious work. Reporting to Ronnie Falcon, Chief Product Officer, you'll be the person accountable for timelines, dependencies, and delivery across our product, engineering, research, and partnerships teams.

OpenMined runs several high-stakes efforts at once:

• ScreamingFace: an open-source toolkit for composing multiple LLMs into systems that beat any single frontier model, with a public leaderboard and a research fellowship.
• AI Oversight: builds privacy-preserving infrastructure that lets AI labs, auditors, and safety institutes run evaluations without exposing models or data, with pilots alongside frontier labs.

This is a technical role. You'll work daily with engineers and researchers on distributed systems, LLM infrastructure, and privacy-enhancing technologies. You don't need to write production code, but you need to understand the work well enough to break it down, spot risk, and challenge an estimate.

We're looking for a seasoned technical program manager who has built and run project management practices for teams like this. You'll bring years of hands-on experience, use AI to make planning, tracking, and reporting faster and lighter, and help OpenMined become a team that is excellent at project management.

This is a fully remote role for people based in the United States, working within one hour of US Eastern Time.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery end to end for OpenMined's flagship initiatives (ScreamingFace and AI Oversight), from quarterly goals to milestones, dependencies, and release dates.
• Design, run, and keep improving our project management practice for an AI-native team: planning, tracking, status reporting, and retros built around how engineers work with AI agents today, and updated as those tools change.
• Build AI into how we manage projects: use and build AI agents and automations that draft status updates, summarize Linear, GitHub, and meeting activity, flag risks and stale work, and keep plans current with little manual upkeep.
• Make the whole team better at project management: set standards and templates, coach product and engineering leads, and grow project management skills across the team.
• Turn quarterly OKRs into dated, sequenced plans with product and engineering leads, and keep them current as research results and priorities shift.
• Run a living product roadmap that is reviewed on a regular cadence and can feed grant proposals and funder reports without a last-minute rewrite.
• Be the single accountable owner for cross-team dependencies when one initiative spans several boards, teams, or external partners, and chase down blockers yourself before they cause a slip.
• Own our project management tooling (Linear for engineering, Asana for cross-functional work): set conventions, cut noise, and make sure status in the tools matches reality.
• Connect code to plans: make sure work in GitHub links to Linear issues across all active repos, and keep PR review, release status, and repo ownership visible.
• Track and report progress on milestones, cycle time, and OKR key results to leadership, and flag slipping dates early with clear trade-off options.
• Coordinate external deliverables such as partner pilots, program launches (e.g., our research fellowship), and grant milestones, so commitments to partners and funders are met.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical project or program management, delivering complex software with product and engineering teams.
• Built or rebuilt a project management practice: set up planning cadences, tooling, and standards that a team kept using.
• Has shaped project management for AI-native teams: worked with engineers who build with AI coding agents.
• Uses AI in their own project management work every day: has built or set up AI agents, automations, or workflows.
• Delivered under continuous shipping and technical uncertainty: R&D, ML/AI, infrastructure, or developer platforms.
• Technical foundation: a computer science or other technical degree, or 3+ years working as a software engineer.
• Deep, hands-on use of engineering trackers such as Linear, Jira, and GitHub.
• Clear, concise communication, written and spoken: can explain status, risk, and trade-offs to engineers, executives, and funders.

Preferred

• Experience working on a fully remote, distributed team.
• Has mentored or managed other project or program managers, or helped hire them.
• Experience with LLMs, AI evaluation, AI safety, or privacy-enhancing technologies.
• Experience at an early-stage startup or research lab where you built the delivery process from scratch.
• Experience managing grant-funded or partner-funded deliverables.
• Experience coordinating with external partners on pilots or integrations.
• Open-source project experience, as a contributor or as a project or release manager.

Benefits

• Salary Range: $123,000 - $218,000 per year.
• Mission-Driven Work: Be part of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, focused on social impact rather than profit.
• US employee benefits: Medical, dental, and vision insurance with company contributions; Retirement: 403(b) plan.
• Open Source Contribution: Make a real impact by contributing to an Open Source project.
• 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.
• Fully Remote Work: Work remotely within the location requirements for this role.
• Flexible Paid Time Off: Take the time you need with flexible vacation days.