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AIML - Sr Engineering Program Manager, Search and Answer Relevance will join a team focused on delivering search products and world knowledge answering features. This senior role involves leading large cross-functional projects to improve user experiences by implementing groundbreaking AI technologies, specifically Large Language Models, while managing aggressive timelines. The manager is responsible for driving consensus across multiple groups, creating project schedules with clear dependencies, identifying risks, and communicating status updates to executive teams. Key responsibilities include measuring success through quality and usage KPIs, gathering internal feedback during feature convergence, and advocating for user experience using quantitative and qualitative data. The role requires expertise in machine learning powered products, technical system architecture, and systems design tradeoffs. Candidates must possess strong skills in conflict resolution, negotiation, and managing complex workstreams to ensure the delivery of high-quality search and generative answer features.
Lead large cross-functional projects to deliver search products and generative AI features using Large Language Models.
Create and manage complex project schedules with clear dependencies and critical path methodologies.
Identify and mitigate risks while proactively re-planning to meet aggressive delivery timelines.
Provide regular, objective program status updates and reports to the executive team.
Lead measurements for success including quality metrics, usage scale, and other key KPIs.
Collect and integrate early feedback from internal dogfooding to drive feature iterations.
Advocate for user experience and company values when resolving open questions or technical trade-offs.
Propose and implement new processes to improve team operations and delivery efficiency.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or a related field and equivalent experience.
8+ years of experience driving large scale program building machine learning powered products.
Excellent program management skills including program structuring and managing multiple interdependent work streams.
Strong ability to communicate abstract ideas clearly and provide succinct status updates to all levels of audience.
Ability to manage project schedules with clear dependencies, critical paths, and systematic methodologies.
8+ years experience in delivery search and generative answer quality improvements (preferred).
Experience orchestrating the delivery of multiple significant client/server software products requiring large organizations of 100+ across teams (preferred).
Solid knowledge of technical system architecture and systems design tradeoffs (preferred).
Machine Learning
Large Language Models
Search Infrastructure
System Architecture
Systems Design
Software Development
front-end systems
Program Management