Senior Technical Program Manager

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💵 $76k - $96k / year

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🔧 Technical Program Manager

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OpenMined

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💰 Non Equity Assistance on 2017-10

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

OpenMined is a foundation dedicated to creating open-source privacy software that empowers data owners to securely share their non-public data for research purposes. Their flagship product, Syft, enables researchers to perform remote data science without compromising data privacy, security, or intellectual property. By connecting researchers with sensitive data while protecting individual privacy and maintaining the integrity of the data, OpenMined aims to foster collaboration among organizations to enhance research outcomes across various scientific fields.

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end delivery of OpenMined's flagship initiatives, ScreamingFace and AI Oversight. • Design, run, and continuously improve project management practices for an AI-native team. • Build AI agents and automations for status updates, activity summaries, risk detection, stale-work flagging, and plan maintenance. • Establish project management standards and templates, coach product and engineering leads, and develop team-wide project management skills. • Convert quarterly OKRs into dated, sequenced plans and maintain them as research results and priorities shift. • Run a regularly reviewed product roadmap that supports grant proposals and funder reports. • Own cross-team dependencies across boards, teams, and external partners; identify and resolve blockers. • Own Linear and Asana project management tooling and ensure tool status reflects reality. • Link GitHub work to Linear issues across active repositories and maintain visibility into PR reviews, releases, and repository ownership. • Track and report milestone, cycle-time, and OKR progress to leadership; flag slipping dates with trade-off options. • Coordinate partner pilots, program launches, research fellowship deliverables, and grant milestones.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of technical project or program management, delivering complex software with product and engineering teams; transferable experience such as a software engineering background will also be considered. • Built or rebuilt a project management practice, including planning cadences, tooling, and standards that a team kept using. • Shaped project management for AI-native teams and worked with engineers who build with AI coding agents. • Uses AI daily in project management work and has built or set up AI agents, automations, or workflows for status reporting, risk detection, planning, or tracker hygiene, with concrete results. • Delivered under continuous shipping and technical uncertainty in R&D, ML/AI, infrastructure, or developer platforms. • Computer science or other technical degree, or 3+ years working as a software engineer. • Comfortable reading code, PRs, and architecture documents. • Deep, hands-on use of engineering trackers such as Linear, Jira, and GitHub; experience designing team workflows. • Clear, concise written and spoken communication for explaining status, risk, and trade-offs to engineers, executives, and funders. • Substantial overlap with US Eastern business hours: local time between one hour behind and two hours ahead of ET. • Preferred: experience with fully remote distributed teams; mentoring or managing project/program managers; LLMs, AI evaluation, AI safety, or privacy-enhancing technologies; early-stage startups or research labs; grant- or partner-funded deliverables; external partner pilots or integrations; open-source projects.

🏖️ Benefits

• Mission-Driven Work: Be part of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, focused on social impact rather than profit, offering the chance to make a meaningful difference in the world. • Open Source Contribution: Make a real impact by contributing to an Open Source project that benefits a broad community. • Collaborative Global Team: Join a dynamic, international team that values collaboration and diversity. • Flexible Work Hours: Enjoy the autonomy to structure your work hours around what best fits your life and productivity. • Fully Remote Work: Work remotely within the location requirements for this role.

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