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Senior Technical Program Manager
TLDR
Drive large-scale, cross-functional initiatives that shape product and infrastructure while ensuring delivery of critical priorities across engineering, product, and design teams.
About Glean:
Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles.
At its core, Glean is redefining how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean’s agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry’s broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level.
Recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (Top 10, 2025), by CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Bloomberg’s AI Startups to Watch (2026), Forbes AI 50, and Gartner’s Tech Innovators in Agentic AI, Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50+ industries and 1,000+ employees in more than 25 countries, we’re helping the world’s largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent, and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality.
If you’re excited to shape how the world works, you’ll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Zendesk, GitHub, and many more - deeply embedded where people get things done. You’ll ship agentic capabilities on an open, extensible stack, with the craft and care required for enterprise trust, as we bring Work AI to every employee, in every company.
About the Role:
Glean is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to drive large-scale, cross-functional initiatives that shape the future of our products and infrastructure. This role provides ample opportunities to work on high-impact programs across engineering, product, design, and business teams, ensuring alignment, execution, and delivery of critical priorities. You will play a central role in defining program goals, structuring execution plans, and enabling teams to deliver with speed and quality. Some examples of initiatives you may lead include: scaling our infrastructure to support massive data volumes, coordinating multi-team feature launches, driving compliance and security programs, and implementing frameworks to improve execution efficiency across the company.
You will:
- Own and drive critical programs for one or two product areas end-to-end from planning and design through execution, launch, and iteration, partnering closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to ensure execution excellence and program success, which may include assisting with documentation, product questions, technical enablement and support to ensure launch success.
- Balance technical understanding with GTM knowledge to ensure projects not only release but also land with our field and customers.
- Define clear goals, success metrics, and timelines while ensuring alignment across engineering, product, and leadership teams
- Identify risks, manage dependencies, and proactively remove blockers to keep programs on track
- Maintain and communicate updates to the product roadmap, promoting transparency and alignment across teams. Create transparency through program documentation, dashboards, and status updates for stakeholders at all levels
- Improve and drive automation, processes, tools, and frameworks that help teams move faster, deliver higher-quality outcomes and reduce administrative burdens
- Assist with technical program management on cross-functional initiatives involving R&D, Marketing, and GTM, such as release notes, beta programs, and customer feature request processes.
- Partner with engineering and client services to enable effective cross-team coordination and release planning.
About you:
- BA/BS in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
- 10+ years of experience in technical program management, product management, or engineering.
- 5+ years of experience in technical program management or Product/Engineering operations within an Enterprise B2B environment, with a track record of supporting complex technical initiatives.
- Excellent communication, organization, and stakeholder management skills, including creating clear, compelling presentations and reports for leadership, stakeholders, and external audiences with the ability to translate technical concepts into clear, actionable strategies for varied audiences.
- Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional programs in a fast-paced environment with operational excellence.
- Familiarity with AI technologies and a demonstrated interest in applying AI-first thinking to product and operational challenges.
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, product development lifecycle, Agile practices, and program management methodologies
- Strong technical acumen, including the ability to self-serve data, automate workflows, understand network operations and deployment models, and engage confidently in technical discussions.
- Experience with A/B testing, user feedback analysis, and NPS (Net Promoter Score) methodologies to inform product and process improvements.
- Sound judgement and ability to walk teams through the balance between speed of innovation and adoption, and the needs of B2B Enterprise software, in sometimes ambiguous situations
- Ability to balance technical depth with strategic program execution, comfortable diving into details while keeping focus on the big picture
- Experience supporting or managing technical programs in cloud, on-premises, or hybrid network environments. Familiarity with cloud-native development practices, distributed systems, or infrastructure programs is a plus
Location:
- This role is hybrid (3 days a week in our Bangalore office)
Compensation & Benefits:
Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.
We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.
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AI-First Mindset at Glean:
At Glean, AI fluency is core to how we work and we're committed to ensuring every new hire feels confident integrating AI into their everyday work. As part of the interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about, design, and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today — prior Glean experience isn't required.
Glean is a Work AI platform designed to help organizations optimize their operations through intelligent search and AI-driven capabilities. By offering a scalable and secure infrastructure, Glean empowers businesses across various industries to harness the full potential of AI while maintaining control and customization.
- Founded
- Founded 2019
- Employees
- 51-200 employees
- Total raised
- $160M raised
Senior Technical Program Manager