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Technical Program Manager, Foundations Data and Operations

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-01 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead a broad portfolio of research and engineering programs powering search systems to help AI find, retrieve, and use information for billions of users.

Role type

Senior Technical Program Manager (Search & AI Infrastructure)

Builds

Search infrastructure, retrieval systems, large-scale indexing, and model training pipelines

Domain

Artificial Intelligence, Search, Information Retrieval

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Program management, technical architecture understanding, cross-functional leadership, risk management, stakeholder coordination, data access negotiation, process design

Preferred skills

Experience with consumer/enterprise search products, ability to translate ambiguous research goals into prioritized workstreams, hands-on execution in fast-moving environments

Technologies

Large-scale indexing systems, model training frameworks, search infrastructure components

Responsibilities

Lead programs across model training, retrieval, and search infrastructure; translate goals into prioritized workstreams with owners and milestones; partner with research/engineering/product leads to define requirements and make tradeoffs; establish program success metrics to track coverage, quality, and responsiveness; identify technical risks and drive blockers to resolution; coordinate with policy, legal, and external partners on data access and use; manage dependencies with data providers and build repeatable execution processes

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