Technical Program Manager, Agent Development

2 Months ago • All levels • Program Management • $120,000 PA - $225,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Sierra is seeking a Technical Program Manager, Agent Development to drive the operational framework for building and supporting AI agents that handle millions of customer conversations daily. This foundational role involves partnering with Product Managers and Engineers to scope, build, and ship AI agents. Responsibilities include driving execution of complex projects, coordinating stakeholders through the agent development lifecycle, co-owning project planning, prioritizing roadmaps, mitigating risks, ensuring clear communication, and contributing data-driven insights. The role requires engagement with all levels of customer enterprise businesses and internal partners.
Must have:
  • Deep project management methodologies and tools experience
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong bias for action and identifying business improvements
  • Strong understanding of software development and product management
  • Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and lead teams
  • Experience with project management applications
Perks:
  • Flexible (Unlimited) Paid Time Off
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits
  • Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
  • Retirement Plan with Sierra match
  • Parental Leave
  • Fertility and family building benefits
  • Lunch, snacks, and coffee
  • Discretionary Benefit Stipend
  • Free alphorn lessons
  • Equity

Job Details

About us

  • At Sierra, we’re creating a platform to help businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices in Atlanta, New York, and London.

  • We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do.

  • Our co-founders are Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace. 

What you'll do:

Drive the operational framework to build with and support our customers: As a foundational member of our Technical Program Manager function at Sierra, you will be responsible for partnering with our Agent Product Managers and Engineers to scope, build, and ship AI agents that handle millions of customer conversations a day.

In this role, you will engage with all levels of our customers’ enterprise businesses and internal partners to:

  • Drive execution and delivery of multiple complex, high-visibility agent development projects.

  • Coordinate across technical and non-technical stakeholders through the full agent development lifecycle process.

  • Co-own project planning process including creating and prioritizing roadmaps, aligning milestones and expected outcomes, and identifying and mitigating risks.

  • Ensure clear communication across all stakeholders while developing strong relationships.

  • Contribute data-driven, strategic insights to project and internal team decisions.

  • Collaborate with internal cross-functional teams to share out periodic updates about our customers.

What you'll bring:

  • Project Management Skills: Deep experience leveraging project management methodologies and tools to masterfully orchestrate projects from planning to delivery, ensuring on-time completion.

  • Outstanding Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to convey complex technical information to non-technical stakeholders, fostering collaboration and driving projects forward with clarity.

  • Entrepreneurial Spirit: A strong bias for action and identifying areas for improvement across the business.

  • Technical Expertise: Strong understanding of software development, product management and engineering principles, enabling you to act as a strategic partner to customers and internal teams as we turn visionary ideas into agents.

  • Problem-Solving and Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and critical thinking skills to grasp complex concepts, and to identify risks and issues, develop mitigation strategies, and handle unexpected challenges across customer relationships and products.

  • Leadership and Team Management: Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, leading and inspiring teams to deliver innovative ideas and exceptional agents.

  • Organisational Systems: Experience implementing and using project management applications like Height, Asana, Notion, Atlassian or others.

Our values

  • Trust: We build trust with our customers with our accountability, empathy, quality, and responsiveness. We build trust in AI by making it more accessible, safe, and useful. We build trust with each other by showing up for each other professionally and personally, creating an environment that enables all of us to do our best work.

  • Customer Obsession: We deeply understand our customers’ business goals and relentlessly focus on driving outcomes, not just technical milestones. Everyone at the company knows and spends time with our customers. When our customer is having an issue, we drop everything and fix it.

  • Craftsmanship: We get the details right, from the words on the page to the system architecture. We have good taste. When we notice something isn’t right, we take the time to fix it. We are proud of the products we produce. We continuously self-reflect to continuously self-improve.

  • Intensity: We know we don’t have the luxury of patience. We play to win. We care about our product being the best, and when it isn’t, we fix it. When we fail, we talk about it openly and without blame so we succeed the next time.

  • Family: We know that balance and intensity are compatible, and we model it in our actions and processes. We are the best technology company for parents. We support and respect each other and celebrate each other’s personal and professional achievements.

What we offer

We want our benefits to reflect our values and offer the following to full-time employees:

  • Flexible (Unlimited) Paid Time Off

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family

  • Life Insurance and Disability Benefits

  • Retirement Plan (e.g., 401K, pension) with Sierra match

  • Parental Leave

  • Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot

  • Lunch, as well as delicious snacks and coffee to keep you energized 

  • Discretionary Benefit Stipend giving people the ability to spend where it matters most

  • Free alphorn lessons

These benefits are further detailed in Sierra's policies and are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefits plans. Eligible full-time employees can participate in Sierra's equity plans subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies.

Be you, with us

We're working to bring the transformative power of AI to every organization in the world. To do so, it is important to us that the diversity of our employees represents the diversity of our customers. We believe that our work and culture are better when we encourage, support, and respect different skills and experiences represented within our team. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. We strive to evaluate all applicants consistently without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.

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