Technical Program Manager, AI, GTM

Sygaldry Technologies•San Francisco, CA

4d•$180,000 - $250,000•Onsite

About The Position

Sygaldry Technologies is building quantum-accelerated AI servers to exponentially speed up training and inference for AI. By integrating quantum and AI, we're accelerating the path to superintelligence, and addressing the problem of rising compute costs and energy bottlenecks. Sygaldry AI servers combine multiple qubit types within a single, fault-tolerant architecture to deliver the combination of cost, scale, and speed necessary for advanced AI applications. We pioneer new domains in physics, engineering, and AI, tackling the hardest challenges with a grounded, optimistic, and rigorous culture. We're looking for individuals ready to define the intersection of quantum and AI and drive its profound global impact. We’re hiring a Technical Program Manager, AI to play a leading role in landing new customer engagements and to work closely with partners. You will be a meaningful technical contributor and relationship builder, translating our product benefit to end-users, while deeply understanding what customers actually need and influencing the product we bring to market. You will help define and run the programs that move customer relationships forward, articulating the milestones that progress commercial engagements from letters of intent to binding deals. In this role, you’ll be the connective tissue back into the company from end-users, and work closely with GTM, Product, and AI. If you think like a founder, are excited by autonomy, and love engaging directly with end-users, this role may be a good fit for you. You are excited to be at the forefront of shaping how quantum is used to accelerate AI in practice. You’ll identify targets and be in the room from the very beginning for conversations with AI companies and enterprises, including first meetings, deep-dives, and standing working sessions. While you do not need to be an AI expert or have built and trained large models yourself, you do need to be technically experienced, able to understand AI researcher bottlenecks, speak credibly about model architectures, training and inference workloads, evals, and where our algorithms and hardware benefits end users. You will manage a portfolio of accounts and each active opportunity will have a program you own to advance the customer relationship, including business and technical proof points. You are key to making cutting-edge deals happen by driving the plan and the credibility behind it. As one of the first hires in this function, what you build will outlast any specific deal. Over your first year you’ll codify how this work happens here, so the function can scale.

Requirements

7+ years of experience, including as a founder, technical program manager, AI research, product manager, or equivalent at a technology company.
Experience interfacing with customers and/or partners to help close deals.
Experience leading programs with external counterparts.
Experience managing multi-stakeholder technical projects over long durations.
Strong AI/ML literacy.
Ability to read recent papers.
Ability to lead a technical conversation about training and inference.
Ability to reason about evals and benchmarks.
Ability to be taken seriously as a technical go-to-market stakeholder by researchers.
Ability to act as a translator and communicator.
Excited by engaging with customers.

Responsibilities

Play a leading role in landing new customer engagements.
Work closely with partners.
Be a meaningful technical contributor and relationship builder.
Translate product benefits to end-users.
Deeply understand customer needs and influence product development.
Define and run programs to advance customer relationships.
Articulate milestones for commercial engagements.
Act as the connective tissue between end-users and internal teams (GTM, Product, AI).
Identify targets and participate in initial conversations with AI companies and enterprises.
Manage a portfolio of accounts and own programs to advance customer relationships.
Drive the plan and credibility for cutting-edge deals.
Codify processes for the function to scale over the first year.