Lead Technical Program Manager, GenAI Platform

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Foster City, CA
Salary
$192,300–$307,600 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
4 days ago
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Above market

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Visa Inc. is the world''s largest payment network, enabling digital payments for consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and governments through its global processing network and branded card products. Industry: Payments Technology & Financial Services

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TL;DR · Lead Technical Program Manager, GenAI Platform

Lead Technical Program Manager - GenAI Platform joins a team dedicated to building, operating, and evolving a centralized platform for enterprise generative AI usage across multiple models and hosting environments. This role involves managing the end-to-end lifecycle of AI models, including technical integration, evaluation, and operational readiness while ensuring compliance within a global financial services environment. The individual will drive initiatives for intelligent model routing, performance optimization, and cost reduction regarding token consumption. Key responsibilities include coordinating with engineering, infrastructure, and third-party providers to manage complex dependencies and scale the platform globally. Required expertise includes experience with LLMs, model serving, inference, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and distributed systems. The role solves the challenge of providing a scalable, secure, and high-performing inference infrastructure that meets strict privacy and performance requirements for diverse internal applications and global operations.

What you'll do

  • Drive major initiatives to build and evolve a centralized GenAI inference platform for global scale.
  • Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of AI models, including technical integration, evaluation, and operational readiness.
  • Coordinate technical and operational dependencies with third-party model providers and hosting infrastructure partners.
  • Ensure all platform operations and models comply with privacy and regulatory requirements for financial services.
  • Research and develop advanced capabilities like intelligent model routing and performance optimization techniques.
  • Drive initiatives to reduce token consumption and optimize costs across various AI applications.
  • Translate complex technical requirements into actionable execution plans, milestones, and success criteria for engineering teams.
  • Manage cross-functional risks and dependencies while communicating status updates to senior stakeholders.

What we're looking for

  • Minimum 10 years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or 8 years with an Advanced Degree, or 3 years with a PhD.
  • Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, data science, artificial intelligence, or a related technical field.
  • Engineering background with experience building software or operating complex technical systems.
  • Ability to read architecture diagrams, understand API contracts, and reason about distributed systems and data flows.
  • Proven track record of driving complex, cross-team engineering programs from ambiguity through production delivery.
  • Technical depth in AI model serving, infrastructure, APIs, capacity, performance, observability, and application integration.
  • Experience with generative AI, large language models, AI platforms, model inference, or machine learning infrastructure (preferred).
  • Experience building or operating technology in a regulated environment (preferred).

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