Director of AI-Driven Technical Program Management

Grant Thornton; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton seeks a Director of Technical Program Management to orchestrate cross-team product delivery and AI-enabled initiatives. You will own sequencing, risk management, and ship readiness while guiding program managers and scrum masters across the organization.

In a hybrid U.S. posting, you will coordinate with product, engineering, platform, and operations to ensure timely, quality product increments for multiple markets.

Qualifications

• Twelve or more years in product engineering, with at least five leading technical program management or engineering delivery teams in a product organization.
• Experience shipping software products used by real users.
• Genuine technical depth: architecture and design discussions, ability to challenge estimates.
• Experience running large cross-functional programs spanning multiple teams, product management and design.
• Fluency in modern agile practice and flow metrics.
• Experience managing and developing program managers or scrum masters across distributed locations and time zones.
• Working fluency with AI tooling in the delivery workflow, and judgment about where it helps and where it produces confident noise.
• Experience program-managing AI or machine learning work, where quality is measured statistically, iteration is expected and a fixed-scope plan is the wrong instrument.

Responsibilities

• Turn roadmap commitments into sequenced, resourced program plans with named owners, real dates and an explicit definition of the user outcome being delivered.
• Run the programs that span multiple squads and pillars, from validated concept through build to a product increment in front of internal or external users.
• Map dependencies across Innovation, Platform, Delivery and Operations early enough to be designed around rather than escalated late.
• Drive scope and sequencing trade-offs with product management and engineering leaders when reality moves, and make the consequences of each option clear.
• Plan AI-enabled product work with the discovery and evaluation loops it genuinely requires, and hold the line on shipping only when quality has been measured against real user scenarios.
• Lead the scrum masters and set a consistent standard for planning, backlog health, estimation and demo cadence across squads, without turning agility into ceremony.
• Improve how work flows: shorten cycle time, limit work in progress, and reduce the handoffs and wait states that quietly cost more than any individual delay.
• Instrument delivery with a small set of trusted metrics, and use them to spot systemic problems rather than to grade teams.
• Clear the impediments that a squad genuinely cannot clear on its own, and fix the recurring ones at their source.
• Put AI to work inside the delivery function itself, using it for planning support, status synthesis, risk detection and reporting, so the team spends its time on judgment rather than on assembling slides.

Skills

Twelve+ years experience

Leadership

Agile experience

Cross-functional collaboration

AI tooling awareness

Job description

Grant Thornton seeks a Director of Technical Program Management to orchestrate cross-team product delivery and AI-enabled initiatives. You will own sequencing, risk management, and ship readiness while guiding program managers and scrum masters across the organization.

In a hybrid U.S. posting, you will coordinate with product, engineering, platform, and operations to ensure timely, quality product increments for multiple markets.