Senior Technical Program Manager (Hybrid)

At HackerRank, we help over 2,500 of the most prestigious logos across industries find, hire, and upskill amazing technical talent using our SaaS-based Developer Skills Platform. We pioneered and continue to lead the developer skills market. At HackerRank, we are passionate about our mission to "Change the world to value skills over pedigree”. This position is full-time and hybrid within the Bay Area.

As a Technical Program Manager on HackerRank’s Content Team, you’ll play a pivotal role in creating and curating world-class coding challenges that power all HackerRank products. You will lead an initiative to build a data annotation framework for training machine learning models in software development and coding. Our mission is to enable organizations to hire the best technical talent by assessing skills across a wide spectrum of roles and technologies. We’re seeking a highly technical, customer-focused leader who can scale content delivery, engage with developer communities, and drive operational excellence to support our growing content and data needs.

You will thrive in this role if you:

• Lead developer outreach and partnership initiatives to expand the Subject Matter Expert (SME) community and position HackerRank as a thought leader in technical assessments.
• Lead the strategic planning and execution to build a data annotation framework and dataset curation initiative for machine learning model development.
• Optimize content delivery workflows by identifying and implementing automation opportunities to enhance efficiency, consistency, and quality.
• Keep pace with the rapidly evolving AI research space on software engineering to ensure our platform is targeting the right model training problems.

What you will also bring:

• A deep technical background in AI model training and dataset requirements.
• Experience: 3+ years in Technical Program/Project Management or Technical Product Management or similar role, with a strong technical foundation.
• Customer Engagement: 2+ years of experience working with customers to deliver tailored technical solutions.
• Technical Skills: Experience in one or more of the following areas: Front-end, Back-end, Cloud, AI/ML, or DevOps technologies.

Bonus Skills:

• Experience working with open-source communities and contributing to developer ecosystems.
• Experience with an AI Research organization running its data partnership programs
• A background in machine learning as a researcher or engineer working on LLMs

At HackerRank, we strongly believe that AI is substantially changing how software development is being done. We don’t think that it stops at AI being just a code writing assistant, but that AI will completely change the way that the SDLC is handled. Join us to shape the future of software development and enable organizations worldwide to hire the best technical talent!

Benefits & Perks:

We have a full package of competitive benefits and perks, which include the following:

• One-time home office set up stipend
• Monthly Remote Work Enablement Stipend
• Professional Development Reimbursement
• Wellbeing Benefits (Headspace, etc)
• Flexible paid time off and paid leave for new parents
• Insurance for all employees (term life, personal accident, medical) along with medical insurance for their dependents
• Employee stock options, flexible work hours, and time off

About HackerRank:

HackerRank is a Y Combinator alumnus backed by tier-one Silicon Valley VCs with a total funding of over $100 million. The HackerRank Developer Skills Platform is the standard for assessing developer skills for 2,500+ companies across industries and 26.5M developers worldwide. Companies like LinkedIn, Stripe, and Peloton rely on HackerRank to objectively evaluate skills against millions of developers at every hiring process, allowing teams to hire the best and reduce engineering time. Developers rely on HackerRank to turn their skills into great jobs. We’re data-driven givers who take full ownership of our work and love delighting our customers!

HackerRank is a proud equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. We provide equal opportunity to everyone for employment based on individual performance and qualification. We never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

We offer a comprehensive total rewards package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business.

Total compensation and benefits consist of salary, performance incentives, equity (stock options), medical, dental, vision, life insurance, travel insurance, monthly work from home stipend, learning and development reimbursements, flexible remote first work culture, 401(K), flexible time off, generous parental leave and more. Under our flexible paid time off policy, you’ll decide how much time you need based on your own personal circumstances.

Current base salary range:  $140,000 to $157,000 USD. Exact salary may vary based on skills, experience, location, market ranges, and other compensation offered.  The salary range does not include other compensation components, commission (for sales-related roles), bonuses, or benefits that you may be eligible for.  Salary may be adjusted based on business needs.

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