Senior TPM - AI/ML Platform Delivery (Remote)

Pencil; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days PTO plus public holidays with

Health insurance / private medical

Monthly wellness stipend

Remote — work from anywhere in home US

Enhanced parental leave

Access to Pencil office in The Shard,伦

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Pencil is building the operating system for AI-powered marketing, a SaaS platform that uses Generative AI to redefine how brands plan, produce and deploy advertising. We seek a Lead Technical Program Manager to own complex, cross-team programs for Tier 1 clients, establish workback plans, and ensure realistic commitments while keeping fast-moving engineering aligned.

You will partner with engineering leads, product managers and client-facing teams, design operating rhythms, manage dependencies,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager in AI/ML, platform infrastructure, or developer tooling.
• Experience owning engineering delivery for enterprise or Tier 1 clients and managing their requests and commitments.
• Genuine technical fluency: reading system architecture and discussing APIs, integration design, and platform trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Own Tier 1 client engineering requests, intake, scoping, sequencing and delivery tracking.
• Design and run the operating cadence for your area of product and engineering, with balanced ceremony.
• Manage workback plans and dependency maps across programs, ensuring accurate labeling, estimation and state.
• Lead cross-team program delivery including feature launches, client integrations, and migrations.
• Provide escalation support, risk analysis and expert guidance on delivery decisions.

Skills

Technical program management

AI/ML experience

Multi-team coordination

Client-facing delivery

Architecture literacy

Tools

Linear

Job description

Pencil is building the operating system for AI-powered marketing, a SaaS platform that uses Generative AI to redefine how brands plan, produce and deploy advertising. We seek a Lead Technical Program Manager to own complex, cross-team programs for Tier 1 clients, establish workback plans, and ensure realistic commitments while keeping fast-moving engineering aligned.

You will partner with engineering leads, product managers and client-facing teams, design operating rhythms, manage dependencies,