Sr. Research Program Manager – Graphics AI Research

Sr. Research Program Manager – Graphics AI Research

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field is desired.
• Significant prior experience in customer-facing roles, project / program management, product management, and working in a technology or research organization.
• Experience in expertly managing a portfolio of projects (10 or more).
• Exceptional ability to work at both the strategic and tactical levels, and to deliver desired outcomes despite obstacles.
• Experience defining, implementing, and optimally executing high-visibility initiatives in a constantly evolving environment.
• Passion for problem solving and ability to think through problems creatively and systematically, and to identify and evaluate alternative solutions.
• Ability to influence executives, senior leaders, and decision makers, and to gain alignment without direct authority, leveraging data and storytelling.
• Outstanding interpersonal, verbal, and written communication and presentation skills, resulting in effective and timely information sharing.
• Expert ability to translate highly technical jargon into language that a non-technical audience can understand and work with.
• High degree of curiosity, flexibility, perseverance, teamwork, and self-motivation.
• Expertise in a variety of productivity tools (e.g., Microsoft Excel, SharePoint, Wiki, Jira, etc).

Responsibilities

• Oversee, manage, and maintain engagements between Research, Product, Applied ML, and Design organizations, from strategy to tactical execution.
• Drive the establishment of a joint innovation strategy, objectives, key results, and success metrics, in collaboration with Product and Research leadership.
• Manage a portfolio of research projects and their associated resource allocations, diving deeper into those requiring additional technical project management, so that the desired outcomes are achieved.
• Implement and manage a cadence of Product/Research reviews, including strategic priorities reviews, and tactical execution reviews of progress against objectives.
• Establish and influence adoption of a research project portfolio prioritization framework and implement processes and tools to support it.
• Establish feedback and metrics systems to assess the value of Research technologies to Product end users, and to assess the Product team satisfaction with the Research partnership.
• Leverage in depth technical knowledge and problem-solving skills to understand issues, identify their root causes, determine alternative solutions, evaluate them, make recommendations and execute on them.
• Ensure the efficient running of the organization through on-going improvements to all areas of the research org, from strategy and operations to customer management and communication.
• Act as a point of contact between the Research org leader and employees / stakeholders, to review requests, and determine and assign the appropriate actions.

Preferred Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field is desired.