Engineering Program Manager, AI

Brex Brex · Fintech · San Francisco, CA +1 · Engineering

Brex is seeking an Engineering Program Manager to own cross-functional execution for their AI initiatives, ensuring complex, multi-team work ships. This role focuses on translating strategy into structured plans, unblocking initiatives, and holding teams accountable for AI-powered products.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive end-to-end execution of AI programs across product, engineering, infrastructure, security, legal, and partner teams from planning through launch.
  2. Translate complex, multi-team initiatives into structured execution plans, with clear milestones, dependencies, timelines, and measurable outcomes.
  3. Establish and maintain a single source of truth for all workstreams, ensuring visibility into status, risks, decisions, and open actions.
  4. Lead cross-functional forums and decision reviews, ensuring the right stakeholders are engaged, decisions are documented, and follow-ups are actioned.
  5. Proactively identify and resolve risks, misalignment, and blockers, escalating when necessary and driving stalled work to completion.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience in program management
  • Demonstrated track record shipping complex, multi-team products
  • Experience working in AI, agentic or consumer facing technologies

Nice to have

  • Background in engineering operations, event planning, or other high-intensity operational environments
  • Experience shipping AI or ML-powered products
  • Experience working on infrastructure-heavy or technically complex initiatives

What the JD emphasized

  • AI initiatives
  • complex, multi-team work
  • AI-powered products
  • agentic
  • shipping complex, multi-team products

Other signals

  • AI-native automation
  • AI agents that take action
  • cross-functional execution for AI initiatives
  • complex, multi-team work