Senior Technical Program Manager (Paris,France)

Genesis; Paris; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Genesis is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to align researchers, hardware engineers, software teams and leadership across Paris and the Bay Area. You will turn ambitious bets into shipped results, owning end-to-end programs in a fast-moving robotics and AI context.

You’ll build lean roadmaps, surface risks early, and create lightweight systems for tracking progress. French language proficiency is a plus, and strong ownership is essential to drive tangible outcomes.

Qualifications

• 4+ years leading complex technical programs end-to-end in fast-moving environments.
• Able to converse with ML researchers about training runs and with hardware engineers about integration tests.
• Demonstrated ability to learn a new technical domain quickly and become productive within weeks.
• Crisp, direct communication aligning researchers, engineers and leadership.
• Ownership and bias for action to drive tangible results.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Cross-functional program management

Technical fluency

Communication

Bias for action

Ownership

French

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’ll 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