About the Role
Rime is seeking its first Technical Program Manager to own engineering coordination, including priorities, timelines, and IC alignment. This role requires a systems-thinking approach, the ability to read code, and active participation in technical decision-making, working closely with engineering leads, founders, and the modeling team.
Responsibilities
- Manage the engineering roadmap, ensuring alignment between company objectives and engineering blueprints.
- Drive the company roadmap while allowing engineers autonomy.
- Triage requests from customers, sales, marketing, and leadership, translating them into sequenced tasks.
- Identify and address execution blockages, inefficient information channels, and unrealistic timelines.
- Perform ad-hoc coding to facilitate work coordination when necessary.
- Act as a cross-functional coordinator across engineering roles.
- Solicit feedback and propose action plans to build trust across the company.
- Manage project management and issue tracking tools to coordinate work.
- Own and manage public documentation at docs.rime.ai.
- Oversee the compliance burndown in coordination with infrastructure and engineering.
Requirements
- 2 or more years of experience in program or project management, coordinating technical work across multiple engineering workstreams.
- Comfortable diving into codebases, reading PRs, understanding system diagrams, and asking informed questions.
- Ability to perform ad-hoc coding with the assistance of LLMs when necessary.
- Strong written communication skills and an async-first working style.
- Understanding of the difference between a roadmap and a time-scoped plan, and their appropriate applications.
- Ability to trust engineers' expertise while holding them accountable without creating obstacles.
- Proactively fix small issues that block progress.
Skills
- Program Management
- Project Management
- Technical Coordination
- Systems Thinking
- Codebase Comprehension
- Roadmap Development
- Prioritization
- Cross-functional Communication
- Documentation Management
- Compliance Management
- Problem Solving
- LLM Assistance
Location
- SF / Bay Area
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 2+ years
Benefits
- Meaningful equity upside
About the Company
- Rime is a foundation modeling company building voice AI for enterprises running customer experiences at scale.
- Our models are purpose-built for high-volume conversational deployments, engineered for accuracy, performance, and deployment flexibility.
- We prioritize building voice AI for human connection, using a proprietary corpus of studio-quality conversational speech recorded and annotated by linguists.
- Enterprises choose Rime for unparalleled naturalism and successful pilot-to-production transitions.
