
Senior Technical Program Manager – TPM
mpathic
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Washington • United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $200,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Own Clinically Grounded AI Evaluation Delivery (Core)
- Lead evaluation projects from kickoff → rubric → execution → QA → final reporting
- Define milestones, timelines, and delivery SLAs
- Manage delivery risk in sensitive, high-stakes domains
- Ensure outputs are rigorous, clinically appropriate, and customer-ready
- Evaluate safety, appropriateness, and response quality—not clinical outcomes
- Familiarity with scope, limits, and responsible handling of sensitive content
- Design Rubrics & Annotation Protocols
- Partner with mpathic behavioral experts to define rating criteria
- Build labeling guides for psychological state, intent, appropriateness, and harm risk
- Ensure rubrics balance clinical nuance with operational usability
- Drive Quality & Calibration Systems
- Implement review tiers: peer review → QA → escalation
- Run inter-rater reliability and disagreement reduction workflows
- Maintain gold sets and drift monitoring over time
- Tooling & Workflow Ownership
- Translate evaluation needs into requirements for internal tooling: Work queues and labeling interfaces
- Audit trails and version control
- Taxonomies for stress, crisis, and safety response categories
- Reporting automation and reproducibility pipelines
- Metrics & Operational Excellence
- Own evaluation program dashboards including: Throughput per expert per day, Agreement and defect rates, Cycle time and on-time delivery, Safety actionability metrics (e.g., customer acceptance, mitigation impact)
- Customer & Stakeholder Execution Support
- Help scope clinically sensitive evaluation engagements
- Translate customer priorities into clear execution plans
- Present findings with clinical and operational clarity
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in one or more of: Technical project/program management and team leadership experience
- Clinical research experience and/or report writing
- Organize and analyze qualitative data, in addition to synthesizing key findings
- Train and coach clinicians to engage in high-level data analysis with the end goal of developing safety rubrics and evaluation systems
- Navigate evolving rubrics, edge cases, and judgment calls
- AI evaluation or annotation programs
- Trust & safety, human-centered AI, or behavioral science workflows
- Licensed clinician (LCSW, LMFT, PsyD, PhD, MD) or equivalent applied experience
- Expertise in qualitative data, annotation and/or evaluating clinical conversations for safety and mental health content
- Deep familiarity with psychological stress, trauma, crisis response, or mental health frameworks
- Ability to evaluate model behavior in emotionally complex, high-stakes conversations.
Benefits
- 100% company-funded health, dental, and vision insurance for full-time employees.
- 401k
- well-being programs
- flexible paid-time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
AI evaluationannotation programsqualitative data analysisrubric designevaluation systemsreport writingdata synthesisinter-rater reliabilitymetrics analysisreporting automation
Soft Skills
project managementteam leadershipcommunicationcoachingrisk managementcustomer engagementclarity in presentationadaptabilitycritical thinkingcollaboration
Certifications
LCSWLMFTPsyDPhDMD