Staff Program Manager: AI & Automation Leader (Hybrid/Remote)

engine; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus potential

Hybrid work model

Job summary

engine, an AI-native business travel platform, is hiring a Staff Program Manager to guide complex, multi-team initiatives within a centralized Business Operations function. You will set direction, build new operating models, and drive AI and automation adoption across initiatives to improve workflows and outcomes across the organization.

This role requires strategic thinking, strong stakeholder management, and the ability to establish repeatable methods where playbooks do not yet exist.

Qualifications

• Deep program management experience leading multi-team initiatives to completion.
• Ability to make sound judgments in high-ambiguity environments.
• Strong cross-functional instincts with trusted relationships across teams.
• Builder mindset to improve systems, guidelines, tools and methods.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end execution across complex, multi-team initiatives with sequencing and tradeoff decisions.
• Develop new operating models when playbooks don’t apply and make methods repeatable.
• Think strategically across functions and connect systems and teams beyond the initiative.
• Resolve ambiguity using context and judgment rather than rigid processes.
• Build trusted cross-functional relationships and drive outcomes beyond a single team.
• Coach others with clear communication through difficult stakeholder situations.
• Lead AI and automation adoption across initiatives and redesign workflows.
• Develop tools, guidelines, and methods to improve how program management operates.
• Keep initiative health visible in company-level reporting and planning cycles.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Communication

AI and automation

Decision making in ambiguity

Stakeholder management

Job description

engine, an AI-native business travel platform, is hiring a Staff Program Manager to guide complex, multi-team initiatives within a centralized Business Operations function. You will set direction, build new operating models, and drive AI and automation adoption across initiatives to improve workflows and outcomes across the organization.

This role requires strategic thinking, strong stakeholder management, and the ability to establish repeatable methods where playbooks do not yet exist.