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Drive the future of computer vision and agentic AI as a Senior Program Manager - Technical on our Visual Reasoning team, where you'll coordinate cutting-edge initiatives that transform how businesses leverage advanced visual reasoning and intelligent agents to solve complex operational challenges. Join a startup-like environment within AWS Applied AI Solutions where you'll work with world-class research scientists, engineers, product managers, and UI/UX designers to bring novel visual reasoning solutions-spanning computer vision, agentic AI, and user experiences-from concept to production.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Program Manager - Technical to join our Visual Reasoning New Initiatives team

This person will be responsible for orchestrating the execution of complex, multi-year programs that bring our Visual Reasoning solutions from internal pilots to production deployment across customer sites. This person will work closely with cross-functional research scientists, engineers, product managers, and UI/UX designers to define technical roadmaps, manage program milestones, coordinate deployments, and drive the operational readiness required to scale Visual Reasoning solutions. In this startup-like environment, you'll tackle problems that haven't been solved at scale before-where much is still unknown and we're moving fast.

You'll integrate cutting-edge visual reasoning capabilities using Visual Question Answering (VQA) for computer vision and agentic AI for intelligent user experiences, playing a critical role in turning ambitious ideas into production-ready systems.
Key job responsibilities
- Work with engineering, research, UI/UX, and product teams to translate business requirements into technical and functional specifications for Visual Reasoning solutions
- Define technical roadmaps for engineering and research teams by partnering with Science and Software Development Managers to align on priorities, milestones, and delivery timelines
- Support launch of Visual Reasoning solutions across new applications, customer verticals, and deployment formats
- Provide regular updates to senior leadership (VP and SVP level) on program status, risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies
- Build comprehensive project plans that balance business needs with project risks, resource availability, and technical constraints
- Drive engineering project execution by making technical trade-offs, tracking progress, reporting status, and resolving blocking issues
- Coordinate cross-team efforts across research, engineering, and infrastructure teams
A day in the life
Your day begins with a coordinating stand-up with research scientists, engineers, and product managers to align on program milestones, execution status, and tackle blocking issues. From there, you might jump on calls with external customers to understand their operational needs, technical constraints, integration requirements with their existing systems, and deployment strategies-all critical inputs that inform our technical roadmap. You will spend time defining the technical roadmap for the next 3-6 months, aligning with principals across all workstreams on priorities, technical challenges, dependencies, and the architectural decisions needed to move forward

You will craft bi-weekly updates and co-author monthly updates for VP/SVP leadership, distilling complex program status into strategic insights. But the role is not just strategic-you will also roll up your sleeves to solve hands-on deployment problems, whether that is troubleshooting hardware shipments stuck in a warehouse, navigating space constraints in a customer MDF, or writing installation SOPs for local IT teams deploying our systems. In this startup-like environment, you will balance strategic planning with tactical execution, moving fluidly between high-level roadmap discussions and on-the-ground problem-solving, all while transforming ambitious ideas into production-ready solutions.
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