Senior Technical Program Manager (FR)

Genesis; Paris; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Robotics experience

French fluency

Job summary

Genesis is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager in Paris to orchestrate ambitious AI and robotics programs. You will coordinate researchers, hardware and software engineers, and leadership across two continents, ensuring clear ownership and timely delivery of milestones.

You will drive roadmaps, surface risks early, and build lightweight dashboards to keep execution focused on high-impact outcomes. Fluency with technical teams and a bias for action are essential.

Qualifications

• 4+ years leading complex technical programs end-to-end in fast-moving environments (startup, research lab, or high-growth tech).
• Able to converse with ML researchers about training runs and with hardware engineers about integration tests.
• Proven track record of rapidly learning new technical domains and becoming useful within weeks.
• Crisp, direct communication that aligns researchers, engineers, and leadership.
• Bias for action with a tendency to move fast while controlling risk.
• Ownership mindset with accountability for outcomes and delivering tangible results.

Responsibilities

• Drive cross-functional programs at the frontier of AI and robotics, from foundation model training to hardware–software integration.
• Turn ambitious goals into lean roadmaps with clear deliverables, owners, and timelines.
• Dive into robotics hardware, software, simulation, and large‑scale AI to surface uncertainties and trade-offs.
• Keep Bay Area and Paris teams aligned, blocked dependencies cleared, risks visible early.
• Build lightweight systems (roadmaps, metrics, dashboards) to focus execution on what matters.
• Automate program management workflows to free the team for real decisions.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Technical fluency

Clear communication

Job description

Senior Technical Program Manager, Paris

About Genesis
Genesis is a physical AI research lab and full-stack robotics company building a universal robotics foundation model (one AI "brain" that can power many kinds of robots) and a horizontal robotics platform. We work in San Francisco, Paris and London and combine large-scale AI research, an in-house physics simulation engine, and real robot hardware under one roof.

The role
You'll be the person who turns our most ambitious bets into shipped results. You'll sit between researchers, hardware engineers, software engineers and leadership, across two continents, making sure everyone knows what matters, who owns it and when it lands.

What you'll do

• Drive cross-functional programs at the frontier of AI and robotics, from foundation model training to hardware–software integration, with pace and accountability

• Turn ambitious goals into lean, unambiguous roadmaps: clear deliverables, clear owners, clear timelines

• Dive into robotics hardware, software, simulation, and large-scale AI to understand trade-offs, surface uncertainties, and ask the questions others miss

• Keep Bay Area and Paris teams tightly aligned, dependencies unblocked, and risks visible early

• Build lightweight systems (roadmaps, metrics, dashboards) that keep execution focused on what matters

• Leverage AI to build automated program management workflows, so status updates, risk tracking, and reporting run themselves and the team spends its time on real decisions

What you bring

• 4+ years leading complex technical programs end-to-end in fast-moving environments (startup, research lab, or high-growth tech)

• Enough technical fluency to hold a real conversation with an ML researcher about a training run and with a hardware engineer about an integration test, so you can challenge an estimate, spot a hidden dependency, or flag a risk before it becomes a delay

• A track record of learning a new technical domain quickly and becoming useful in it within weeks, not months

• Crisp, direct communication that aligns researchers, engineers, and leadership

• Bias for action: many decisions can be reversed and you favor speed over endless analysis

• Ownership: you own the outcome and drive the process to get tangible results

Bonus

• Experience in robotics, hardware/software integration, or research workflows

• Fluency in French

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