Senior Technical Program Manager, AI

Medallia; Buenos Aires; Presencial; ARS 179.813.000 - 269.719.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Medallia is seeking a Senior TPM (AI) for its R&D PMO in Buenos Aires. You will lead critical product development initiatives with embedded AI across the lifecycle, partnering with Product and Engineering to deliver GenAI-enabled solutions that customers love.

The role emphasizes strong TPM discipline, cross-functional leadership, and AI fluency to automate workflows, improve decision-making, and boost productivity. Hybrid work with 3 days onsite in Buenos Aires.

Formación

• 8+ years of leadership experience in Product / Engineering / PMO.
• 3+ years partnering with C-level executives.
• Proven track record leading large-scale initiatives in a matrixed organization.
• Experience delivering AI/ML or GenAI products end-to-end.
• Experience with AI model lifecycle and governance.
• Familiarity with SDLC and Jira/Confluence for roadmap tracking.
• Business value mapping of technical outcomes to revenue or efficiency.
• Excellent executive communication and English proficiency.

Responsabilidades

• Lead multiple strategic initiatives with cross-functional dependencies.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams across platforms.
• Steer health of initiatives and drive operational efficiencies.
• Proactively manage risks and communicate status to leadership.
• Represent R&D in technical and business discussions.
• Improve delivery predictability, efficiency and throughput.
• Understand hybrid-cloud architecture and cloud computing.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Executive communication

Strategic execution

Cross-functional collaboration

AI/GenAI fluency

SDLC / Project Mgmt

Business value tracking

English proficiency

Herramientas

Jira

Confluence

PMP

CSM

CPO

PgMP

IAPM

CISSP

ITIL

Six Sigma

Claude

Cursor

Descripción del empleo

Overview

Medallia is the pioneer and market leader in Experience Management. Our award-winning SaaS platform, Medallia Experience Cloud, leads the market in the management of experiences, insights, and actions for candidates, customers, employees, patients, and residents alike.

We believe that every experience is a memory that can last a lifetime. Experiences shape the way people feel about a company. And they greatly influence how likely people are to advocate, contribute, and stay. At Medallia, we are committed to creating a world where organizations are loved by their customers and their employees.

We empower exceptional people to create extraordinary experiences together.

Bring your whole self.

The Role and Team

As a Senior TPM (AI) for our R&D PMO, you will lead the execution of our most critical Product development initiatives with AI embedded throughout the lifecycle. We lead both customer-facing GenAI product and platform programs and internal AI-enabled engineering transformation initiatives that improve how we build, operate, and deliver value. The Medallia R&D PMO team maintains a strong and strategic partnership with Product and Engineering, and together we are building solutions that are moving the Experience industry forward, delivering solutions that our customers love.

This is first and foremost a Technical Program Management (TPM) role. The ideal candidate brings strong TPM discipline, excellent cross-functional leadership, and AI fluency to work with business leaders on initiatives that automate workflows, improve decision-making, and increase productivity through AI and workflow automation capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple concurrent strategic initiatives and programs varying in size, scope, complexity and ambiguity, with cross-functional and cross-organizational dependencies.
• Collaborate with multiple Product and Engineering teams across platform and applications.
• Take responsibility for the success and health of the Strategic Initiatives under your care and act as a change agent to drive operational efficiencies into process, people and tooling.
• Proactively manage technical challenges & risks in all assigned areas; work with teams and management to mitigate these risks before they become issues.
• Be sought after by leadership for “the real story” and craft communications that can be consumed at different levels of the organization.
• Propose solutions and consult on system changes. Influence long lasting architecture along with documentation.
• Ability to represent R&D by answering both technical and business-related questions on behalf of the team.
• Continually pursue delivery excellence by improving predictability, efficiency and throughput.
• Understand hybrid-cloud architecture, infrastructure, systems development, and cloud computing.
• Identify opportunities to improve execution of the organization as a whole, to increase Operations and Engineering productivity through tools and process improvements.
• Understand the business metrics and operational controls required for production GenAI capabilities, and coordinate across teams to ensure telemetry for usage & monitoring, and fallback and rollback mechanisms.

Candidates based in the Buenos Aires vicinity will be prioritized as this role is Hybrid, 3 days per week onsite.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of leadership experience in Product / Engineering / PMO
• 3+ years of demonstrated experience working closely with C-level executives
• Demonstrated success leading and managing large-scale initiatives across organizations in a matrixed, globally-diverse workforce
• Demonstrated experience in delivering AI/ML or GenAI products or features from use-case definition thru production launch and post-launch iterations
• Experience with AI model lifecycle
• Exposure to responsible AI governance, and partnership with Security and Legal
• Hands-on familiarity with GenAI development and productivity tools such as Claude, Cursor, etc. is expected.
• Hands-on experience applying SDLC, Project Management, and Product Life-Cycle methodologies and configuring project management tooling (e.g. Jira and Confluence) to track roadmap progress, risk and deliverables.
• Business Value & Metrics: Experience mapping technical program outcomes directly to business revenue, cost savings, or operational efficiency metrics.
• Strategic & Tactical Execution: Track record of owning a technical program lifecycle from initial strategy and roadmap definition through to day-to-day execution, tracking, and delivery.
• Systems & Process Architecture: Experience managing multi-million dollar or multi-team programs where you successfully integrated technical architecture, operational workflows, and business processes across distinct business units.
• Executive Communication: Experience presenting program status, technical risks, and strategic trade-offs to VP and C-level executives, and translating complex technical concepts for non-technical leadership and stakeholders.
  Professional working English proficiency, spoken and written.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of people management skills
• PMP, CSM, CPO, PgMP, IAPM, CISSP, ITIL, Six Sigma certifications
• Experience with hybrid cloud solutions
• Curious, adaptable, and action-oriented in applying AI to real business problems and measurable outcomes.
• Adept at cultural change management
• Ability to thrive and succeed in a dynamic environment not slowed down by ambiguity or competing priorities
• Able to effectively modulate the presentation of information based on your audience: everyone from a C-level executive to an Individual Contributor

At Medallia, we celebrate diversity and recognize the value it brings to our customers and employees. Medallia 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, age (40 and over), disability, genetic information, veteran status or military service, or any other status protected by state or local law. Individuals with a disability who need an accommodation to apply please contact us at [e-mail]. For information regarding how Medallia collects and uses personal information, please review our Privacy Policies. Applications will be accepted for 30 days from the date this role was posted or until the role has been filled.