Senior Technical Program Manager

The role

You will own the delivery process and tool standardization for the product and engineering organization. You will coordinate between Applied AI, Engineering, and Research teams to manage the SDLC and cross-team dependencies.

What you will do

• Consolidate tools to create a single source of truth for SDLC.
• Own the end-to-end SDLC and partner to set and hold deadlines.
• Design automated development workflows including compliance, security, and privacy reviews.
• Formalize the handoff between FDE-built extensions and the core platform.
• Run the operating rhythm connecting Applied AI, Engineering, and Research.
• Facilitate cross-team technical definitions for API and system design.
• Ensure delivery of capabilities stuck before launch.
• Establish and run weekly or biweekly operational reviews with engineering leadership.
• Collaborate across departments including Marketing and Sales.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years in technical program management, engineering management, or a hybrid role at a high-growth software or AI company.
• Direct experience with the machine learning or LLM development lifecycle.
• Track record of standing up SDLC and tooling at a company in the 50 to 300 person range.
• Comfort with ambiguity and authority.
• Experience coordinating engineering across multiple time zones, ideally including the US/Europe/Israel triangle or equivalent.
• Strong written communication.

Nice to have

• Migrated an organisation off tool sprawl onto a coherent stack.
• Background in enterprise B2B SaaS, especially companies with both a platform motion and a Forward Deployed Engineering or solutions motion.
• Experience working alongside an FDE or applied team where customer-built work needs to be productized.
• Familiarity with model deployment, inference infrastructure, or MLOps at production scale.

About the company

Fundamental is a company where the product and engineering organization requires a system to coordinate highly capable teams.