
Senior Staff Technical Program Manager – AI Platform/OS
Red Cell Partners
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Seattle • Virginia • Washington • United States
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Salary
💰 $200,000 - $260,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Own end-to-end execution of internal platform initiatives across the Trase operating system, translating ambiguous work across infrastructure, runtime systems, and AI/ML workflows into clear, actionable plans while ensuring alignment across Engineering, DevOps/SRE, DevEx, and Product.
- Identify and manage cross-team dependencies across services, cloud infrastructure, and AI pipelines, sequencing work to minimize blocking dependencies, reduce integration risk, and avoid rework.
- Establish and maintain a lightweight operating rhythm that drives execution, including milestone tracking, execution reviews, and release readiness checkpoints, ensuring teams have clear priorities, defined success criteria, and visibility into risks.
- Partner with DevOps and SRE to ensure releases are safe, validated, and traceable, and that platform and AI/ML changes are observable, auditable, and ready for production environments; drive go/no-go decisions based on system readiness and risk.
- Proactively identify and manage system-level risks across infrastructure, deployment systems, AI/ML pipelines, and runtime behavior, ensuring mitigation strategies are in place before issues impact delivery.
- Define and track key execution and reliability signals, including delivery predictability, release success rates, dependency resolution, and system health, acting as the source of truth for execution status and risk.
- Continuously improve engineering execution by identifying inefficiencies in CI/CD workflows, testing and integration systems, and AI workflow evaluation, partnering with DevEx and DevOps to increase developer velocity, release safety, and overall system reliability.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering, or related roles
- Experience working on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD and deployment systems
- Strong understanding of DevOps / SRE workflows, system dependencies and failure modes
- Demonstrated ability to break down ambiguous technical problems, drive execution across teams, influence without authority
- Strong technical fluency with ability to read and understand production code, reason about system architecture and APIs, engage in technical tradeoff discussions
- Experience with or exposure to AI/ML systems and LLM-based workflows, AI infrastructure (inference, evaluation, orchestration)
- Ability to write code when needed (for debugging, validation, or prototyping), though not a primary responsibility
- Experience working closely with DevOps / SRE teams, platform engineering teams (Strongly Preferred)
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, observability systems (Strongly Preferred)
- Experience in regulated or high-security environments (Strongly Preferred)
- High ownership and accountability
Benefits
- Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows
- 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
- Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
- Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
- Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
- Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.
- Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind.
- Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
technical program managementdistributed systemscloud infrastructureCI/CDdeployment systemsDevOpsSREAI/ML systemssystem architectureAPIs
Soft Skills
influence without authorityproblem-solvingexecution across teamshigh ownershipaccountability