Technical Program Manager

About the role

The Technical Program Manager will drive ambitious research projects forward, working across multiple projects to serve as a linchpin between researchers, engineering teams, leadership, and external collaborators. They will develop and maintain project roadmaps, coordinate dependencies, write and review technical design documents, and engage with external partners.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project roadmaps, translating long-term strategic goals into milestones and tasks
• Run regular team meetings, triaging issues, and ensuring research scientists and engineers stay on track
• Cook up dependencies between core technical and project teams
• Write and review technical design documents and project plans
• Model human, compute, and financial resources across projects
• Contribute technically when necessary
• Engage with external project-partners, nurturing existing relationships and cultivating new collaborations
• Continuously refine Basis' approach to project management in research

Qualifications and Attributes

• 4+ years managing technical (scientific/engineering) projects, with demonstrable impact
• PhD-level comprehension of AI/ML concepts (though a PhD itself isn't required)
• Proficiency with project management tools such as Linear, JIRA, or equivalent
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaboration tools (e.g., Notion, GSuite)
• Exceptional writing skills, able to communicate complex ideas clearly and concisely
• Ability to navigate uncertainty and find clarity in complexity
• Think from first principles, know when to adopt or discard standard practices
• Simplify complexity and see unnecessary processes as problems to be solved
• Automate everything that should be automated
• Make tough calls on project direction and resource allocation, often with incomplete information
• Distill nebulous research questions into concrete, actionable project plans
• Balance individual team-member needs with project progress
• Work and act quickly, maintaining team momentum at the right level of intensity
• Relentlessly reduce uncertainty and ambiguity—persistent in getting clarity
• Expertise in core technical areas including statistics, causal reasoning, probabilistic machine learning, and/or programming languages, with an appetite to learn more
• A fast learner, able to quickly build upon a solid mathematical foundation into diverse technical areas
• Obsess over effective program management and continuously ask, "How can we do this better?"

Role Details

• Location: NY
• Work Mode: In-person
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: $100,000 - $160,000

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Career Opportunities

Compensation Range: $100K - $160K