Founding Technical Program Manager

GC AI

21d•$206,910 - $284,000•Hybrid

About The Position

GC AI is the fastest-growing and most trusted legal AI platform for in-house legal teams. We're building the future of legal work, and we're doing it fast. You'll join at a pivotal moment—when decisions matter, impact is immediate, and the runway to shape your career is wide open. We’re a high-performing team where you'll have real ownership and influence from day one. More than 1,800 companies use GC AI to drive their business forward, including 150+ public companies, 25+ unicorns, and brands such as News Corp, Miro, Bass Pro Shops, Snyk, Skims, Liquid Death, Vercel, Zscaler, and TIME. We've 10x'd revenue in 12 months, raised a $60 million Series B ($555 million valuation), and are growing faster than ever. We are backed by incredible investors, including Scale Venture Partners, Northzone, Sound Ventures, and Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel. If you thrive when the stakes are high and the path isn't paved, you'll love it here. Our six guiding principles are: 1% better every day, customer obsession, ship today, find a way, care deeply, and own it completely. Come shape the future of legal work with us. ABOUT THE ROLE GC AI is hiring its first Technical Program Manager at an important time. Revenue has grown 10x in the past year; we are shipping quickly and taking on more projects than ever. We need a clear way to see what is happening across those projects, make hard choices early, and ship reliably. This is a build-from-scratch role. You will create the system for moving work from an idea to something customers can use. Everyone should know what is on track, what is at risk, what is likely to ship, and where a decision is needed. Your job is to make delivery clearer and faster—not to add unnecessary process. We have already started. Our Launch Calendar shows upcoming releases, owners, key dates, launch briefs, and whether each team is ready. Calvin, our launch intake agent, turns a Slack conversation into a launch entry. These are early pieces of a much bigger system. They also show how we like to work: build something useful, put it into the real workflow, and improve it over time. You will report to engineering leadership and work with Engineering, Product, Marketing, Legal, Sales, and outside partners. This is not a role where you only update plans and report status. You will improve how the company works, run our most important launches, and build some of the tools and automations yourself.

Requirements

You have 7+ years of experience shipping complicated software across several teams.
You have built a new way of working, gotten people to use it, and made it better over time.
You build things yourself. You may write code, build agents, connect APIs, or make the first version of a tool.
You understand how AI products are built. You can talk with engineers about models, evaluations, data, APIs, speed, reliability, and the choices involved in shipping them.
Engineers trust you because you understand the details, ask good questions, and help teams make sound decisions.
You can explain a complicated technical problem to leaders in simple terms: what needs to be decided, what the options are, and what happens if we wait.
You use data and conversations to find the real problem, then help people solve it with calm and urgency.
You can build trust across teams, even when plans change, deadlines slip, or people disagree.
You like building from scratch. A blank page excites you.

Nice To Haves

You have been the first PM, TPM, chief of staff, engineering operations lead, or similar hire at an early-stage company.
You have worked as an engineer or led work involving infrastructure, platforms, APIs, data systems, or distributed systems.
You have worked with model evaluations, data-quality systems, LLMs, or other parts of building AI products.
You have helped several teams start using the same internal platform, SDK, API, or workflow.
You have worked on enterprise software where launches involved Legal, Security, Compliance, customers, or outside partners.

Responsibilities

Learn how work moves from an idea to a customer. Find where it gets stuck, clarify ownership, and help teams close the gaps.
Keep a clear view of all major projects. Help teams set priorities, plan the order of work, and spot conflicts or dependencies early.
Set up and run a simple, useful project and launch reviews. Make sure decisions are made quickly, and automate follow-up when possible.
Lead our most important launches. Raise risks early and help teams make hard choices about scope, quality, timing, and what should happen first.
Improve the Launch Calendar and Calvin. Use agents and automations to collect updates, find risks, build launch briefs, send work for review, and notify the right people when plans change.
Pull information from Notion, Slack, Linear, and other tools into one clear view. Leaders should know what is on track, what is likely to ship, and what needs help.
Create simple playbooks, decision logs, and dependency lists so teams do not lose important context.
Make sure Marketing, Legal, Sales, customers, and outside partners get the information and time they need before a launch.
Get teams to use the systems you build. Measure whether they save time, remove blockers, and help us ship faster without adding busywork.