Founding Technical Program Manager
About the role
GC AI is hiring its first Technical Program Manager at an important time. Revenue has grown 10x in the past year; we are shipping quickly and taking on more projects than ever. We need a clear way to see what is happening across those projects, make hard choices early, and ship reliably. This is a build-from-scratch role.
What You'll Do
- Learn how work moves from an idea to a customer.
- Find where it gets stuck, clarify ownership, and help teams close the gaps.
- Keep a clear view of all major projects.
- Help teams set priorities, plan the order of work, and spot conflicts or dependencies early.
- Set up and run a simple, useful project and launch reviews.
- Makes sure decisions are made quickly, and automate follow-up when possible.
- Lead our most important launches.
- Raise risks early and help teams make hard choices about scope, quality, timing, and what should happen first.
- Improve the Launch Calendar and Calvin.
- Use agents and automations to collect updates, find risks, build launch briefs, send work for review, and notify the right people when plans change.
- Pull information from Notion, Slack, Linear, and other tools into one clear view.
- Create simple playbooks, decision logs, and dependency lists so teams do not lose important context.
- Make sure Marketing, Legal, Sales, customers, and outside partners get the information and time they need before a launch.
- Get teams to use the systems you build.
- Measure whether they save time, remove blockers, and help us ship faster without adding busywork.
What You've Done
- Have 7+ years of experience shipping complicated software across several teams.
- Built a new way of working, gotten people to use it, and made it better over time.
- Built things yourself. May write code, build agents, connect APIs, or make the first version of a tool.
- Understand how AI products are built. Can talk with engineers about models, evaluations, data, APIs, speed, reliability, and the choices involved in shipping them.
- Engineers trust you because you understand the details, ask good questions, and help teams make sound decisions.
- Use data and conversations to find the real problem, then help people solve it with calm and urgency.
- Build trust across teams, even when plans change, deadlines slip, or people disagree.
- Like building from scratch. A blank page excites you.
Nice to Have
- Worked as an engineer or led work involving infrastructure, platforms, APIs, data systems, or distributed systems.
- Worked with model evaluations, data-quality systems, LLMs, or other parts of building AI products.
- Helped several teams start using the same internal platform, SDK, API, or workflow.
- Worked on enterprise software where launches involved Legal, Security, Compliance, customers, or outside partners.
Success Looks Like
- In your first 90 days, understand how work moves through the company, show us where it gets stuck, start a useful rhythm for projects and launch reviews, and automate at least one task that everyone hated doing by hand.
- Within a year, leaders can see what is likely to ship and where help is needed. Teams find risks and dependencies earlier, launches no longer surprise Marketing, Legal, or Sales, and the systems you built are widely used because they make work easier and help us ship faster.
A Note On Pace
We’re building something new in a once-in-a-generation shift in technology and the legal industry, so we move at a relentless pace. We expect urgency, ownership, and good judgment even when things aren’t perfectly clear. If you need structure and consensus to do your best work, this isn’t the right place for you. If you thrive in ambiguity and growth, work with intensity, and want real responsibility, keep reading. We’re excited to meet you.
How We Work Together
- GC AI is a distributed company with team members across North America, and soon Europe.
- We believe that because our business is AI, human connection matters more, not less. We invest in bringing people together through our hub model: regular coworking sessions, customer dinners, team and company offsites.
- If you’re in a location without an office, expect up to 10% travel (and more for customer-facing roles).
- Team members in the San Francisco Bay Area and Provo, UT (within 50 miles of the office) work together on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.
- As we grow, we plan to establish permanent offices in more hub cities, and we will look to our team members to help build that in-person culture.
- We currently hire across the United States and Canada.
Equal Opportunity Employment
GC AI is an equal opportunity employer that supports workplace diversity and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity/expression, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, or any other protected class. GC AI is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.
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Compensation Range
$206,910 - $284,000