Job#: 3031783 Job Description: Technical Program Manager III
Location: Menlo Park, California (Onsite preferred but can be flexible for the right candidate. Must be in PST or EST timezone though)
Employment Type: Contract
PAY RATE: $104 - $114 HOURLYRole Overview
Our organization is seeking an experienced, AI-native Technical Program Manager to join a Marketing Decision Science organization. In this role, you will be crucial in building and supporting high-performing Decision Science teams and their leadership while creating a bridge to business partners to drive impact through AI solutions. This is an AI-native role where you will use AI tools as a core part of your operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and maintain strong collaborative operating rhythms across data science teams and their cross-functional partners.
- Guide roadmap planning, including quarterly revisions and re-prioritization.
- Implement and execute regular working rhythms to ensure a dependable delivery of high-quality work.
- Assist in breaking down work into actionable tasks for engineers and data scientists.
- Track project progress, deliverables, and milestones.
- Coordinate and manage dependencies across Data Science, Data Engineering, Marketing, and Product teams.
- Organize and maintain project information and documentation in AI-enabled knowledge repositories.
- Provide regular stakeholder updates on timelines, status, and risks.
- Support the organization director in distilling the most important action items for the team.
- Create executive-facing documents and facilitate the sharing of AI innovations.
AI-Native Expectations
- Operate AI-first by using AI agents to draft status reports, summarize meetings, and generate initial artifacts.
- Automate operating cadences by building and maintaining lightweight AI-driven workflows for recurring rituals.
- Evaluate and onboard new AI capabilities and internal AI agents, tools, and integrations.
- Help maintain a structured team knowledge base to allow AI tools to act on the team's behalf.
- Treat documentation as machine-readable context to enable AI agents to reason over it reliably.
- Build your own AI tools for efficiency and productivity for yourself, teams, and the organization.
Required Qualifications
Experience: At least 5 years of experience in technical program management, project management, or related fields, ideally supporting data science, data engineering, or analytics teams. Experience working in AI-native organizations or on AI projects is required.
Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
Skills:- Demonstrated working practice with AI tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT, or equivalents) in a program management context.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and leadership communication skills.
- Ability to synthesize open conversations into plans, frameworks, and action items.
- Strong technical acumen and understanding of data, software development, and analytics workflows.
- Proven track record of managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects from start to finish.
Preferred Qualifications
- Technical experience, such as building with AI or familiarity with analytics.
- Comfort with embracing ambiguity.
- Experience with experimentation, measurement, or growth marketing data domains.
- Familiarity with the marketing and data science partnership model.
- Prior contingent worker engagement in a large tech environment.
This employer is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
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