AI Research Project Manager

1 week ago

New York, New York, United States Captions Full time
Captions

Captions is the leading video AI company, pioneering the future of video creation. With over 10 million creators and businesses utilizing our platform, we're on a mission to revolutionize the industry.

We're a rapidly growing team of ambitious, experienced, and devoted engineers, researchers, designers, marketers, and operators based in NYC. As a key member of our early-stage team, you'll have an outsized impact on shaping our product and culture.

Backed by top investors and entrepreneurs, including Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and more, we're poised for significant growth.

About the Role:

The Technical Program Manager will oversee complex projects across our machine learning (ML) research teams, ensuring delivery of goals and objectives. Key responsibilities include:

  • Managing ML projects from concept to deployment
  • Collaborating with ML research teams, product managers, and stakeholders to align objectives and ensure project success
  • Facilitating communication and decision-making across teams to ensure research outcomes meet product and business needs
  • Ensuring projects adhere to established timelines, research milestones, and delivery deadlines in the ML research cadence
  • Coordinating experiments, model training processes, and other ML-specific workflows to drive efficient research and development
  • Monitoring and reporting on research progress, identifying and addressing bottlenecks
  • Managing risk mitigation strategies for projects, particularly around model performance, scalability, and data issues
  • Supporting the team in prioritizing tasks, balancing short-term and long-term goals, and adapting to evolving research needs
  • Organizing meetings, presentations, and reviews to track project status and showcase key milestones
  • Fostering collaboration between ML researchers, data scientists, software engineers, and other teams involved in developing ML solutions

Requirements:

To succeed in this role, you'll need:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
  • 5+ years of experience in technical program management, software engineering, systems engineering, or hardware engineering, ideally managing projects for ML or AI research teams
  • Strong understanding of ML concepts, model development processes, and ML research workflows
  • Experience with the lifecycle of ML projects, including model training, validation, deployment, and iteration
  • Proven ability to manage cross-functional teams in a research or technology-focused environment
  • Demonstrated experience in managing large-scale research projects with multiple stakeholders and dependencies
  • Strong organizational skills with a history of delivering results on time and within scope
  • Excellent communication and leadership abilities to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Familiarity with tools and platforms for ML development (e.g., Weights and Biases, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Jupyter Notebooks, ML Ops)
  • Problem-solving mindset with the ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt to changing priorities

Compensation Package:

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • 401K with employer match
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Catered lunch multiple days per week
  • Dinner stipend every night if working late
  • Doordash DashPass subscription
  • Health & Wellness Perks (Talkspace, Kindbody, One Medical subscription, HealthAdvocate, Teladoc)
  • Multiple team offsites per year with team events every month
  • Generous PTO policy and flexible WFH days

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Captions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Salary Range: $140K - $200K

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