Program Manager

• BSc degree or equivalent
• Extensive knowledge and expertise in program management
• Able to navigate through ambiguity and adapt plans and strategies as conditions change
• Able to foster respect, inclusion, and collaboration when working with teams
• Skilled in building relationships and fostering trust with a diverse group of people
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex ideas to their essence
• Experience operating autonomously with multiple teams distributed across time zones
• Ability to balance multiple projects and prioritize effectively
• Line management experience
• Proactive about learning and acquiring knowledge to enhance your domain knowledge
• Technical degree or equivalent working knowledge
• Curious to learn about AI/machine learning research
• Excited by the opportunity to solve human-centric AI and the benefits this can bring

The role of the Program Management team is to coordinate and enable our teams to be the best at what they do and to make fast-paced progress towards customer missions. We continually pursue scalable and sustainable ways to optimise work on real world applications, cultivating an environment where people can be both highly collaborative and deeply creative, making responsible and pioneering research progress at pace. We build strong relationships with internal and customer teams, bringing clarity to ambiguity and providing stability during change. We continually deepen our domain knowledge, working alongside engineers, researchers, and product managers to execute on customer programs.

• Manage the delivery of programs designed to achieve highly impactful applications of machine learning, keeping project teams focused and productive
• Deliver on cross-functional efforts to scale efficient operations and team development; evaluate and improve processes, tools, templates and documentation for repeatability and sustainability
• Conduct regular retrospectives on successes and failures and provide independent analysis; share lessons and insights across the wider business
• Learn new business and technical skills quickly, adapt to changing environments while providing day-to-day coordination and quality assurance for projects and tasks
• Lead and develop a dedicated team of program managers, assuming accountability for project allocations and goal delivery

We research and build AI foundation models for advanced, high impact applications. We transform efficiencies, situational awareness and scientific discovery for critical infrastructure. Our Hybrid Intelligence approach to research combines humans with AI, instead of replacing them. Taking human expertise into account when automating meaningful decisions is a source of competitive advantage for our customers and transforms how they think, operate and disrupt. Impactful AI comes from multiple disciplines collaborating on a shared goal and so OptimalAI’s interdisciplinary approach brings together brings together foundational research, neuroscience, engineering and industry subject matter expertise. When hiring we look for people with a passion for excellence, integrity and a belief in the power of the team.

Competitive salary applies.