AIML- Sr Engineering Program Manager, Search Quality and Infrastructure

We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Program Manager with a strong track record of building search infrastructure and delivering search products with world knowledge answering features using innovative technologies upon an aggressive timeline.

• Drive consensus across multiple groups with varying opinions & needs
• Influence entire teams around a common purpose and drive conference on the plan of execution
• Create and manage project schedules with clear dependencies, critical path and systematic methodology to communicate status
• Proactively identify and manage risks, close gaps and re-plan as needed
• Keep teams on critical path with efforts to minimize distractions
• Provide clear, timely and objective communication, including regular program status updates and one-off reviews as needed to executive team
• Keep an eye on any potential gaps across dependency teams and proactively promote regular communications on common source of truth
• Proactive and regular insurance of alignments across all partner teams when new factors arise
• Lead measurements to help team understand and measure success, including quality, usage scale and other key KPIs
• Advocate for user and company values when leading team to convergence on key open questions
• Lead early feedback collection from internal dogfooding during feature convergence, drive team to address feedback in feature iterations
• Advocate for quality and user experience, using both quantitative and qualitative data
• Reflect on how the team operates, proactively propose and implement new ways to enable more effective processes & delivery of results

• 8+ years of experience in driving large scale program building machine learning powered products
• 3+ years experience bringing a product from concept to completion, ideally working on machine-learning features and/or sophisticated backend and front-end systems
• Deep understanding of software development for machine-learned products and services, and how analytics and evaluation data can help improve those products
• Strong desire to learn, aptitude for problem solving, and the ability to make sophisticated trade-offs
• Excellent program management skills including program structuring and managing multiple work streams interdependently
• Self-motivated and proactive, with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities required to forge a path to success
• Strong ability to communicate abstract ideas clearly, manage comprehensive yet succinct project status update to all levels of audience, both verbally and in written forms
• Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or related field and equivalent experience

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• Retirement benefits
• Range of discounted products and free services
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses
• Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
• Relocation assistance

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