Founding Technical Program Manager: Lead AI Launches

GC AI; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GC AI is hiring its first Technical Program Manager to orchestrate fast-moving AI product launches across engineering, product, marketing, legal, and sales. You will build from scratch a system to track ideas from concept to customer, making delivery clearer and faster.

In this role you will own launch processes, set priorities, and drive adoption of automated workflows. You will work with Notion, Slack, and Linear, helping teams ship reliably while reducing busywork.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience shipping complex software across multiple teams.
• Launched a new operating model and drove adoption over time.
• Built tools and wrote code or first versions of tools.
• Understands how AI products are built; can discuss models, data, APIs, speed and reliability with engineers.
• Engineers trust you because you understand details, ask good questions, and help teams decide.
• Able to explain complex technical problems to leaders in simple terms: options and trade-offs.
• Uses data and conversations to identify real problems and solve them with calm urgency.
• Skilled at building trust across teams when plans shift or deadlines slip.
• Enjoys building from scratch and starting with a blank page.

Responsibilities

• Learn how work moves from idea to customer, identify bottlenecks, clarify ownership.
• Keep a clear view of major projects; set priorities, plan order, and spot conflicts early.
• Set up and run simple project and launch reviews; ensure quick decisions and automate follow-up.
• Lead our most important launches; raise risks early and define scope, quality, timing.
• Improve the Launch Calendar and Calvin; use agents and automations to collect updates and notify teams.
• Pull information from Notion, Slack, Linear and other tools into one clear view for leadership.
• Create playbooks, decision logs, and dependency lists to preserve context.
• Ensure Marketing, Legal, Sales, customers, and partners get information and time before launches.
• Measure whether teams save time and ship faster without added busywork.

Skills

Shipping software

New ways of working

Hands-on coding

AI product knowledge

Cross-team trust

Explain to leaders

Data-driven problem solving

Tools

Notion

Slack

Linear

Job description

GC AI is hiring its first Technical Program Manager to orchestrate fast-moving AI product launches across engineering, product, marketing, legal, and sales. You will build from scratch a system to track ideas from concept to customer, making delivery clearer and faster.

In this role you will own launch processes, set priorities, and drive adoption of automated workflows. You will work with Notion, Slack, and Linear, helping teams ship reliably while reducing busywork.