Technical Program Manager, AI Research Full-time

Meta is seeking a Technical Program Manager (TPM) to support the Artificial Intelligence Research mission to advance the state-of-the-art of AI. As a Technical Program Manager, your job will be to drive research breakthroughs and/or accelerate research into production. In this role, the TPM actively engages with talented research scientists and engineers across the spectrum of research types – exploratory, focused, and applied research. The ideal candidate would have hands-on experience in relevant domains of AI and research. They engage with this community through publications, open-source software, participation in technical conferences and workshops, solving product problems through AI, and creating and managing various internal and external collaborations. In close partnership with research, engineering, product and other cross-functional teams, this person will identify problem statements, create roadmaps, scope programs aligning them with research outcomes and business priorities, define milestones and success metrics, and drive them to completion by aligning and leading large cross-functional teams.

Technical Program Manager, AI Research Responsibilities

• Define, build and lead cross-functional programs to deliver end-to-end solutions which solve various problems in technical and business domains.
• Accountable for identifying and overcoming end-to-end, cross-functional problems in technical domains across client and/or server infrastructure.
• Lead execution and delivery of solutions to resolve business problems via strategic thinking and on-the-ground leadership.
• Drive and influence technical and product strategy, proactively identify problems, align on priorities, and set direction for a broadly cross-functional area.
• Responsible for defining and delivering on technical requirements that solve people problems and product, platform or infra requirements in conjunction with partners.
• Define and own what success looks like, metrics & measurement, rollout, and scalable and sustainable operational plan.
• Build strong, trusting partnerships to readily mobilize people and influence across a broad range of partners, leaders, and organizations.
• Identify and improve inefficiencies in how we operate to move faster with higher quality outcomes.

Minimum Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of software engineering, systems engineering, hardware engineering, or technical product/program management experience.
• Experience delivering tech programs or products from inception to delivery.
• Knowledge of user needs, gathering requirements, and defining scope.
• Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams, demonstrated critical thinking, and thought leadership.
• Communication experience and experience working with technical management teams to develop systems, solutions, and products.
• Organizational, coordination and multi-tasking experience.
• Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems.
• Experience establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and multiple partners in different time zones.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in AI research environments.