Basis Research
Technical Program Manager
New York Office · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$100k-$160kDetected 538 days ago
Machine LearningProject ManagementJiraResearchLeadershipWriting
About the role
- You'll work across several projects, serving as a linchpin between our researchers, engineering teams, leadership, and external collaborators, requiring both technical depth and project management expertise.
- Run regular team meetings, triaging issues, and ensuring research scientists and engineers stay on track
- Coordinate between core technical and project teams, identifying and resolving dependencies
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain project roadmaps, translating long-term strategic goals into milestones and tasks
- Write and review technical design documents and project plans
- Engage with external project-partners, nurturing existing relationships and cultivating new collaborations
- We're seeking a Technical Program Manager who is deeply passionate about program management to drive ambitious research projects forward.
- Is a fast learner, able to quickly build upon a solid mathematical foundation into the diverse technical areas that we work in
Requirements
- The second is to advance society's ability to solve intractable problems.
- This means expanding the scale, complexity, and breadth of problems that we can solve today, and even more importantly, accelerating our ability to solve problems in the future.
- 4+ years managing technical (scientific/engineering) projects, with demonstrable impact
- PhD-level comprehension of AI/ML concepts (though a PhD itself isn't required)
- Proficiency with project management tools such as Linear, JIRA, or equivalent
- More important than any specific qualification is your ability to navigate uncertainty and find clarity in complexity.
Nice to have
- Thinks from first principles, knowing when to adopt or discard standard practices
- Simplifies complexity and sees unnecessary processes as problems to be solved
- Automates everything that should be automated
- Makes tough calls on project direction and resource allocation, often with incomplete information
- Excels at distilling nebulous research questions into concrete, actionable project plans
- Understands the human side of research, balances individual team-member needs with project progress
- Works and acts quickly, maintaining team momentum at the right level of intensity
- Relentlessly reduces uncertainty and ambiguity-is persistent in getting clarity
Skills
- Exceptional writing skills, able to communicate complex ideas clearly and concisely
Compensation
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- $100,000 - $160,000
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