[Hiring] Staff Technical Program Manager, AI @Cribl

Role Description

We are seeking an ambitious Staff Technical Program Manager who puts customers first and will deliver our most challenging product development programs. This includes managing program schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to program stakeholders. We are looking for people who love to get stuff done, and laugh a bit along the way. Cribl is a serious company that doesn’t take itself too seriously. You will be a key contributor to the success of the Product and Engineering teams and shape the future of the Technical Program Management role at Cribl. This role reports to the Senior Manager of Technical Program Management.

• Collaborate on the engineering organization's pivot to an agent-first Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) across requirements, design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Manage cross-system integration and interoperability of the org-wide AI workflow, ensuring agents across Core Platform, SRE, and Support communicate effectively.
• Partner with AI Engineering to ensure operational readiness for AI-owned capabilities and systems, including defining clear escalation paths, incident handling procedures and Go-to-Market readiness.
• Provide leadership for development initiatives and lead the end to end delivery of the most complex initiatives across multiple teams, ensuring successful outcomes.
• Be a change advocate responsible for initiating and leading multiple organizations through pivots needed to address shifts in business trends and priorities.
• Drive Technical Program Management best practices and develop best of class software development processes.
• Use deep technical skills and domain knowledge to influence the strategic direction of teams and the department.
• Define and track improvement to metrics for quality and performance across complex projects involving many teams.
• Develop methods for ongoing communication of planning, program status, issues, and risks to stakeholders.
• We are a remote-first company and work happens across many time-zones – you may be required to occasionally perform duties outside your standard working hours.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of leadership experience on software teams as a Technical Program Manager or Development Manager.
• Machine learning experience, ideally in applied settings where models or AI systems were shipped, integrated, evaluated, or operated in production.
• Working knowledge of Agentic AI (e.g., machine learning, model lifecycle, data pipelines).
• Experience designing workflows where AI accelerates execution (coding, triage, diagnostics) without compromising system quality or increasing on-call burden.
• Fluency in providing deep technical, product, and user context to AI systems to achieve high-quality output.
• Experience delivering complex projects or solutions that span different groups within an organization.
• Excellent verbal and written skills coupled with an ability to present to all levels in an organization, whether explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives or discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.
• Skilled at influencing stakeholders and leadership to develop systems, solutions, and products.
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new skills, technologies, and frameworks.
• Experience with common software development tools (e.g. GitHub, bitbucket, Jenkins) and public cloud technology (e.g. AWS, Azure etc).

Requirements

• The salary for this role is dependent on geographic location and will be based on the individual candidate's job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
• In addition to base salary, for sales and some sales-adjacent roles, employees are eligible to earn incentive compensation (commission). For all other roles, employees are eligible to participate in the Cribl Corporate Bonus Program.
• In addition to a competitive salary, Cribl also offers a generous benefits package which includes health, dental, vision, short-term disability, and life insurance, paid holidays and paid time off, a fertility treatment benefit, 401(k), and equity.
• Base Salary Range: $115,000 — $179,000 USD.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Short-term disability and life insurance.
• Paid holidays and paid time off.
• Fertility treatment benefit.
• 401(k) plan.
• Equity options.

Company Description

Diversity drives innovation, enables better decisions to support our customers, and inspires change for the better. We’re building a culture where differences are valued and welcomed, and we work together to bring out the best in each other. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

Interested in joining the Cribl herd? Learn more about the smartest, funniest, most passionate goats you’ll ever meet at cribl.io/about-us .