AI Labs Program & Portfolio Manager

Meta; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta in Bellevue, WA is seeking an experienced Program Manager for the Applied AI Engineering (AAI Eng) organization to manage the business operations across the org, partnering with leadership to scale and run the business effectively.

You will own the end-to-end AAI Labs program lifecycle, from proposal intake to graduation decisions, and build a high-volume pipeline and portfolio tracking system to deliver measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent.
• 8+ years of experience in program management running complex, multi-team programs.
• Experience working directly with software engineers and engineering leaders, with enough technical fluency to assess project progress.
• Demonstrated ability to drive clear decisions, including difficult cut or deprioritize calls, in ambiguous environments.
• Quantitative, analytical, and conceptual problem-solving skills combined with business acumen.
• Experience solving problems individually and in a group setting, with an AI-first mindset.

Responsibilities

• Own the proposal process end to end: define acceptance criteria, run the review process, and keep a high-volume pipeline moving with clear, timely decisions.
• Build and run the portfolio tracking system for hundreds of concurrent projects, including milestones, health signals and data-generation targets.
• Design and run regular project evaluations, and drive milestone, pivot, cut and graduation decisions with the AAI Labs leadership team.
• Make decisions consistent across reviewers by creating rubrics, calibration and documented standards.
• Plan and run intake batches: onboarding, launch backlog and cadence.
• Report on portfolio health and outcomes to senior leadership, and turn insights into program improvements.
• Identify bottlenecks in the AAI Labs operating model and fix them through process, tooling and automation.

Skills

Program management

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

AI awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Dashboard tooling

Workflow tooling

AI tools

Job description

Meta in Bellevue, WA is seeking an experienced Program Manager for the Applied AI Engineering (AAI Eng) organization to manage the business operations across the org, partnering with leadership to scale and run the business effectively.

You will own the end-to-end AAI Labs program lifecycle, from proposal intake to graduation decisions, and build a high-volume pipeline and portfolio tracking system to deliver measurable outcomes.