Technical Product Manager, China

IDC Corporate; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Holidays

Sick days

Healthcare

Dental

Vision

Floating holidays

Volunteer day

401(k) match

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Parental leave

Job summary

IDC Quanta deployment lead is sought to manage end-to-end delivery of the China rollout, coordinating cloud provisioning, model evaluation, RAG architecture, and regulatory compliance with US and China teams. You will oversee ICP filing, PIPL alignment, and vendor coordination to ensure a smooth go-live in Week 22 milestones.

The role requires strong cross-border program experience, Mandarin-English bilingual skills, and hands-on cloud expertise with Alibaba Cloud and AWS China.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in technology implementation.
• 5+ years leading cross-border China deployments.
• ICP filing experience with at least one prior successful filing.
• Budget responsibility exceeding $1M USD.
• Experience with Alibaba Cloud or AWS China.
• Bilingual in Mandarin and English.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end delivery of Pre-Sprint through Sprint 4 plan including cloud VPC provisioning and production deployment.
• Manage the ICP filing end-to-end with a filing agent and keep the 4–8 week process moving.
• Own the MLPS 2.0 gap assessment and PIPL compliance review for the Quanta China deployment.
• Provision and configure China cloud infrastructure (Alibaba Cloud primary, AWS China as fallback) with BYOK and disclosure clauses.
• Run parallel model evaluation against the pass/fail threshold with the US stakeholders.
• Document and maintain the External China-Protected RAG architecture and identity federation design.
• Chair local steering committee touchpoints, prepare status decks, and escalate HIGH risks within 24 hours.
• Coordinate with legal on PRC regulatory opinions and support export control with API-only test structure.

Skills

10+ years in technology implementation

5+ years cross-border China deployment

ICP filing experience

Budget responsibility >$1M

Alibaba Cloud / AWS China experience

Mandarin and English bilingual

Tools

Alibaba Cloud

AWS China

Job description

Overview

About the Role & Team

We are bringing IDC Quanta — our production enterprise AI platform — into China: connected to China-approved LLMs, running on compliant cloud infrastructure, and operating safely inside a fast-moving regulatory environment. This is a deployment engagement, not a rebuild of the product itself. The Technical Project Manager is IDC's on-the-ground owner in Beijing.You'llrun the delivery engine — ICP filing, cloud provisioning, MLPS 2.0 and PIPL compliance, model evaluationlogistics, and any implementation vendor's day-to-day work — and make sure nothing that matters gets lost in translation between Beijing and the US steering committee.

Key Working Relationships

You'll deliver this jointly with the Head of AI & Automation, China, who co-owns delivery execution and represents the program to local IDC leadership, and with a third-party implementation vendor engaged to execute the sprint-by-sprint build-out (cloud provisioning, model integration, RAG architecture, and production deployment). You are the connective tissue between the vendor's day-to-day execution, the VP's local oversight, and the US steering committee.

What You’ll Do

• End-to-end delivery of the Pre-Sprint through Sprint 4 plan: cloud VPC provisioning, IDC Quanta test instance stand-up, model evaluationlogistics, RAG architecture build-out, and production deployment — on schedule for the Week 12 first-capability target and Week 22 go-live.
• Manage the ICP (Internet Content Provider) filing end-to-end —initiateimmediatelyon program kickoff, engage a qualified filing agent, and keep the 4–8 weekprocess moving without becoming the thing that blocks Week 9.
• Own the MLPS 2.0 gap assessment and PIPL compliance review for the Quanta China deployment, and document the certification levelrequiredagainst current posture.
• Provision and configure China cloud infrastructure (Alibaba Cloud primary, AWS China as fallback) — VPC isolation, BYOK encryption with keys held outside China, and government disclosure notification clauses in every cloud contract.
• Run parallel model evaluation (DeepSeek, Qwen, with Kimi/GLM/Hunyuan/ERNIE as fallback) against the pass/fail quality threshold defined jointly with the US Technical Product Owner.
• Document andmaintainthe External China-Protected RAG architecture, the identity federation design, and the MCP server build-out — confirming none of it requires touching Quanta's core codebase.
• Chair local steering committee touchpoints, prepare status decks, and elevate any new HIGH-rated risk within 24 hours to the China Country Lead and the US steering committee representative. Own weekly status reporting and the Week 9 decision memo inputs from the China side: risk register, deployment readiness, and remediation plans for any red-rated criterion.
• Coordinate with IDC's legal team and outside counsel on the PRC regulatory opinion, and support export control review with a clean, API-calls-only test structure.

What Success Looks Like

ICP filing in-flight or approved with no blocking issues by the Week 9 gate. A production-ready China cloud environment — BYOK, VPC isolation, SIEM logging — validated before Sprint 4 go-live. Model evaluation results the US side can actually trust, because the threshold was set before testing began. A steering committee that never finds out about a HIGH-rated risk after the fact.

What You Bring

• Ability to operate comfortably across both IDC's China operations and its US steering committee.
• 10+ years in technology implementation, including 5+ years leading cross-border China deployments.
• Hands-on ICP filing experience (at least one prior successful filing) and working knowledge of MLPS 2.0.
• Prior budget responsibility exceeding $1M USD on a comparable engagement.
• Hands-on experience with Alibaba Cloud or AWS China (Sinnet), including VPC isolation, network segmentation, and BYOK encryption.
• Bilingual in Mandarin and English
• Location: West Coast

Preferred

• Experience integrating enterprise platforms with China-approved LLM APIs (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM,Hunyuan, ERNIE, or comparable).
• Familiarity with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures designed to prevent raw data transmission to LLM providers.
• PIPL, PRCdata-security, and cross-borderdata-transferassessment experience, including coordination with outside legal counsel.

Travel & Logistics

Occassional travel to Beijing and to IDC's US offices should be expected for steering committee meetings, sprint gate reviews, and key milestones.

Why This Role Stands Out

At IDC, your work helps shape how the world understands technology and where it goes next. You collaborate with curious, high-caliber colleagues who value rigor, integrity, and shared success. As the premier global provider of trusted technology intelligence, IDC equips business and technology leaders with the evidence they need to make confident decisions. Our insights inform strategy, investment, and innovation across industries and regions.

Recognized by IIAR as Analyst Firm of the Year for five consecutive years, IDC sets the standard for credibility and impact. With more than 1,000 analysts worldwide and a truly global perspective, we combine deep expertise with practical relevance. Here, your ideas matter, your voice is heard, and your contributions provide the insights leaders rely on every day. It is meaningful work, backed by a culture that supports growth, collaboration, and long-term career development with a globally respected brand.

What We Offer

• 15 vacation days (prorated based on start date)
• 12 company-paid holidays
• 6 paid sick days (prorated based on start date; may vary by state)
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 2 floating holidays (prorated based on start date)
• 1 volunteer day
• 401(k) company match (IDC matches 3% on the first 6% of employee contributions)
• Company-paid short-term disability
• Company-paid life insurance
• Company-paid parental leave

Compensation Transparency

At IDC, we are committed to fair and equitable pay practices. Employees are compensated equitably for their work, aligned with their skills and experience. Salary and incentive structures are determined through a rigorous process that considers experience, education, certifications, role-specific requirements, internal equity, and verified U.S. market data from an independent third-party partner.

At IDC, the expected total annual compensation, depending on location and experience, is between $140,000 – $213,000, inclusive of base salary and variable compensation.

If this role relocates to a different country, the salary range will be updated to reflect that country's range, rather than a currency conversion of the original range.

Equal Opportunity Employer

IDC is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified persons. Employment eligibility verification required. We participate in E-Verify.

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