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Senior Economist - Governance

Washington, DC · On-site

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... with public and private sector partners to design and implement solutions informed by data ... The Senior Economist will report to the GOV PSI Practice Manager for Latin America and the ...

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Sr. Public Sector Program Manager

Spring, TX

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Sr. Public Sector Program Manager Description - Job Summary Do you want to be an instrumental ... Economics, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated ...

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Technical Program Manager, Public Sector

Washington, DC • On-site

Scale AI
Software Development • 201 - 500 employees
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Full-time

Re-posted 23 days ago

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Company rating: 8.5 out of 10

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Job description

Job Summary:
ScaleAI is focused on developing reliable AI systems for significant decisions, and they are seeking a Technical Program Manager for their Public Sector team. The role involves driving innovation and transformation by addressing technical and operational challenges to deliver impactful solutions for Public Sector customers, while managing relationships and ensuring customer success.
Responsibilities:
• Drive innovation and transformation by diving deep into technical and operational challenges, solving undefined problems, and delivering impactful solutions for Public Sector customers
• Leverage technical concepts, tools, and expertise to create solutions from scratch or drastically improve existing solutions
• Use data, analytics, and technical expertise to align internal resources and create tools that directly add value to customers in the public sector space
• Transition AI/ML technologies and processes into working Public Sector products / solutions even when requirements are undefined or ambiguous
• Partner with engineering, operations, and other public sector teams to build and deliver AI systems tailored to unique government use cases in the computer vision and generative AI domains
• Lead a cross-functional team to exceed the customer’s AI/ML objectives
• Manage the long-term health of the customer base by identifying and preempting areas of risk or concern
• Strategically identify ways we can make customer success repeatable and solve issues for future customers
• Address engineering problems alongside the product development teams
Qualifications:
Required:
• An active TS/SCI clearance
• 3+ years of experience succeeding in stakeholder management or customer-facing role
• A technical background (education or professional experience with CS, Economics, Statistics, Engineering)
• A deep understanding of ML operations process
• A track record of structured, analytics-driven problem-solving
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Willingness to travel at least 25% of the time
Preferred:
• 10+ years of professional experience, often in a customer-facing technical program management role in industry or government.
• Prior experience at an API technology company and / or managing technical customers using an API
• Proficiency in Python, SQL or other programming languages
Company:
Scale’s mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world’s most important decisions. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.

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