The RoleWe're hiring a Technical Program Manager, AI to play a leading role in landing new customer engagements and to work closely with partners. You will be a meaningful technical contributor and relationship builder, translating our product benefit to end-users, while deeply understanding what customers actually need and influencing the product we bring to market. You will help define and run the programs that move customer relationships forward, articulating the milestones that progress commercial engagements from letters of intent to binding deals.
In this role, you'll be the connective tissue back into the company from end-users, and work closely with GTM, Product, and AI. If you think like a founder, are excited by autonomy, and love engaging directly with end-users, this role may be a good fit for you.
What You'll Work OnYou are excited to be at the forefront of shaping how quantum is used to accelerate AI in practice. You'll identify targets and be in the room from the very beginning for conversations with AI companies and enterprises, including first meetings, deep-dives, and standing working sessions. While you do not need to be an AI expert or have built and trained large models yourself, you do need to be technically experienced, able to understand AI researcher bottlenecks, speak credibly about model architectures, training and inference workloads, evals, and where our algorithms and hardware benefits end users.
You will manage a portfolio of accounts and each active opportunity will have a program you own to advance the customer relationship, including business and technical proof points. You are key to making cutting-edge deals happen by driving the plan and the credibility behind it.
As one of the first hires in this function, what you build will outlast any specific deal. Over your first year you'll codify how this work happens here, so the function can scale.
You may be a good fit if you:- Have 7+ years of experience, including as a founder, technical program manager, AI research, product manager, or equivalent at a technology company.
- You've interfaced with customers and/or partners to help close deals, led programs with external counterparts, and/or managed multi-stakeholder technical projects over long durations.
- Have strong AI/ML literacy, ability to read recent papers, lead a technical conversation about training and inference, and reason about evals and benchmarks. Researchers will need to take you seriously fairly quickly as a technical go-to-market stakeholder.
- You are a translator and communicator and excited by engaging with customers.
Culture & Benefits- Visa Sponsorship - We know what it takes to make top talent thrive here. We're open to supporting visas whenever possible.
- Compensation - We value your contribution and invest in your future with a competitive salary and meaningful equity.
- Benefits - Your well-being matters. We provide company-sponsored health coverage to give you and your family peace of mind.
- Connection - Whether it's company offsite or casual crew socials, we make time to connect, recharge, and have fun together.
- Time Off - We trust you to take the time you need. Unlimited PTO so you can rest, recharge, and come back ready to make an impact.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. If you don't think this role is right for you, but you believe that you would have something meaningful to to contribute to our mission, please reach out at [redacted].
Location: San Francisco - On SiteTravel: Approximately 33%Compensation: $180,000 - $250,000 Salary + Equity 
