Project Manager - Higgs Audio (Toronto)
Core
Project Manager responsible for shipping Higgs Audio (real-time speech and multimodal AI models) from research to release, ensuring quality and coordinating across API, open weights, and hosting partners.
Role type
Senior Individual Contributor Project Manager
Builds
Higgs Audio foundation models (TTS, ASR, voice cloning), Higgs VoiceOver, and related APIs/open weights
Domain
AI / Machine Learning / Audio Technology
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Release management, technical fluency (Python, REST APIs, SQL), issue triage, customer requirement translation, stakeholder coordination, risk management, documentation
Preferred skills
Speech/audio product experience, ML model release experience, open-source project management, enterprise customer management, agentic AI usage, engineering background
Technologies
Python, REST, streaming APIs, GitHub, SQL, Hugging Face, Microsoft Foundry, Deep Infra
Responsibilities
Own release schedules and go/no-go decisions, coordinate release channels (API, open weights, partners), run quality control on model performance, triage and prioritize issues, manage project dependencies and risks, gather customer feedback for roadmap, handle versioning and deprecation
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
