Senior Technical Program Manager

We're looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to own how OpenMined plans, tracks, and ships its most ambitious work. You'll work most closely with Ronnie Falcon, Chief Product Officer, and you'll be the person accountable for timelines, dependencies, and delivery across our product, engineering, research, and partnerships teams.

OpenMined runs several high-stakes efforts at once. ScreamingFace is an open-source toolkit for composing multiple LLMs into systems that beat any single frontier model, with a public leaderboard and a research fellowship. AI Oversight builds privacy-preserving infrastructure that lets AI labs, auditors, and safety institutes run evaluations without exposing models or data, with pilots alongside frontier labs. These efforts span multiple teams, tools, and funders, and they move fast under real research uncertainty.

Our product leads decide what to build, and our tech leads decide how it's built. You'll own when and in what order it gets delivered. That means turning goals into milestones with real dates, keeping roadmaps current rather than rewriting them once a year, and making our tools a source of truth people trust. It also means telling leadership early when a date is about to slip and what the options are.

This is a technical role. You'll work daily with engineers and researchers on distributed systems, LLM infrastructure, and privacy-enhancing technologies. You don't need to write production code, but you need to understand the work well enough to break it down, spot risk, and challenge an estimate.

We're an AI-native team. Our engineers ship with AI coding agents, our main codebase releases several times a week, and our tools and habits keep evolving as AI does. We're looking for a seasoned technical program manager who has built and run project management practices for teams like this. You'll bring years of hands-on experience, use AI to make planning, tracking, and reporting faster and lighter, and help OpenMined become a team that is excellent at project management, not one that depends on a single person to do it.

This is an independent contractor engagement, roughly a full-time commitment, with an initial 12-month term we expect to renew. You set your own schedule, but we need your working hours to overlap substantially with US Eastern business hours (your local time between one hour behind and two hours ahead of ET).

Contract fee: $76,000 - $96,000 USD annualized, invoiced monthly.

Actual offers will be determined based on the candidate's skills, level of experience, and location.

• Mission-Driven Work: Be part of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, focused on social impact rather than profit, offering the chance to make a meaningful difference in the world.

• Open Source Contribution: Make a real impact by contributing to an Open Source project that benefits a broad community.

• Collaborative Global Team: Join a dynamic, international team that values collaboration and diversity.

• Flexible Work Hours: Enjoy the autonomy to structure your work hours around what best fits your life and productivity.

• Fully Remote Work: Work remotely within the location requirements for this role.