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About the Role
We are hiring our first Technical Program Manager to drive execution across Chalk's most important initiatives. You'll work directly with our founders, VP of Product, and engineering leads to build and run our program management systems, processes, and culture.
Responsibilities
- Drive Chalk's largest cross-functional programs end to end, including critical product launches, with complete independence
- Build the program management systems, processes, and culture that change how teams think, decide, collaborate, measure progress, and deliver
- Elevate the execution capability of the engineering teams around you
- Own timelines, dependencies, and risks for major platform initiatives — surface tradeoffs early and drive them to decisions
- Run launch readiness for new products and capabilities, coordinating engineering delivery with docs, marketing, and customer-facing teams
- Give founders and engineering leads clear visibility into program health, blockers, and outcomes
- Influence and, where necessary, push back on leads and execs: force sequencing tradeoffs, tell us when we're not ready to ship, and help us focus by saying no to more things
- Participate actively in product and engineering design, identifying risks and opportunities in technical strategy, architecture, and how we structure the engineering org
- Unblock teams: chase down dependencies, resolve conflicts, and keep decisions moving
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience, including 6+ years of technical program management experience
- Track record of shipping complex, multi-team technical programs from concept to launch
- Strong technical depth: you can follow architecture discussions, pressure-test engineering plans, and understand how data infrastructure and ML systems fit together
- Crisp written and verbal communication: your program proposals, reviews, and decision/tradeoff docs create clarity and get buy-in from engineers and execs alike
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity; you build structure where none exists
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
- Prior experience as a software engineer or in another hands-on technical role
- Experience launching developer-facing platforms, APIs, or ML/data infrastructure
- Experience as the first TPM or program hire at a startup
- Familiarity with some of the systems we build and run: Data: streaming and batch feature pipelines, data warehousing, analytics, BI
- Familiarity with some of the systems we build and run: Serving and infrastructure: single-digit-millisecond online serving, serverless compute, and Kubernetes deployments inside customer VPCs (“Bring Your Own Cloud” deployments)
- Familiarity with some of the systems we build and run: AI: training, fine-tuning, serving, and deploying models, plus agentic applications
- Familiarity with some of the systems we build and run: Languages: Python, SQL, Rust, and Go
Skills
- Technical Program Management
- Data infrastructure
- ML systems
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Operating in ambiguity
- Software engineering
- Developer-facing platforms
- APIs
- ML/data infrastructure
- Python
- SQL
- Rust
- Go
Location
- Office
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 10+ years of experience
- 6+ years of technical program management experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- Generous salary + equity package based on experience
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Expert Healthcare Guidance
- Retirement savings
- 15 company holidays each year
- 15 days of personal time off each year
- Flex Commuter Benefits
- Daily lunch and dinner on Chalk
- Office is fully-stocked with drinks and snacks to fuel your work day.
- Staying late? Dinner is on us
- Staying even later? Grab an Uber / Lyft home on Chalk
About the Company
- Chalk is building the data platform that powers the future of machine learning applications.
- We tear down complexity, latency, and scale barriers that have traditionally constrained ML capabilities.
- Our platform combines Rust-speed performance with elegant tools that developers love to use.
- Leading companies depend on Chalk for everything from stopping fraudulent credit card swipes, verifying identities, and maximizing clean energy capture.
- We've recently raised a $50 million Series A, led by Felicis.
Equal Opportunity
- Chalk is an equal opportunity employer.
- We value diversity and inclusion and provide reasonable accommodations to anyone in need of individualized support.