IT AI Technical Program Manager at Forcepoint in Flex - Austin

Job description

• Forcepoint is seeking an IT AI Technical Program Manager to join our Enterprise AI team within the Enterprise Systems and Technologies organization. This team builds and operates the Forcepoint Intelligence Platform, the internal AI platform delivering a portfolio of programs that automate revenue, finance, customer success, and IT workflows across the company. This role owns delivery of that portfolio and will be strategically important and highly visible with senior leadership.
• The Technical Program Manager will run the delivery framework that carries each AI program through defined milestones, from requirements and architecture through development, staging, production deployment, and measured production adoption. You will coordinate engineers, platform administrators, and business stakeholders across multiple concurrent programs, keep milestone status accurate in Jira, surface risks and slips early, and produce the weekly and executive-level reporting that leadership uses to steer the portfolio. You will also maintain visibility into AI infrastructure spend so program value can be weighed against cost, and you will own launch enablement so business teams are trained and ready when each program reaches production. A successful candidate brings structure and pace to a fast-moving portfolio without slowing the builders down.
• How you will work: Remote USA

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of the Enterprise AI program portfolio through its milestone framework, from requirements through production usage
• Maintain accurate program and milestone status in Jira, and run the operating cadence (standups, milestone reviews, gate checks) that keeps programs moving
• Identify risks, dependencies, and slips early; drive them to resolution across engineering, security, and business teams
• Produce weekly leadership reporting that ties each program's progress to its business outcome, in language executives can act on
• Track AI infrastructure and platform spend and partner with leadership on budget visibility and forecasting
• Enforce governance and production readiness gates, including security review, documentation, and adoption measurement
• Run enablement and training for teams adopting new AI programs, including launch readiness, training sessions, and documentation, so adoption starts on day one of production
• Coordinate cross-functionally with Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Technologies, and Atlassian Engineering teams on shared dependencies

Requirements

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field
• 4+ years of technical program or project management experience in IT or software delivery
• Strong working knowledge of Jira and agile delivery practices
• Demonstrated ability to run multiple concurrent workstreams with structured milestone tracking
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level reporting
• Critical thinking and analytical abilities
• Ability to work independently and take initiative
• Experience delivering AI, ML, or data platform programs
• Familiarity with cloud cost management, preferably AWS
• Experience with AI governance, production readiness, or SDLC frameworks
• Experience partnering with finance on budget and spend reporting
• Experience building enablement or training programs for enterprise technology rollouts
• PMP, agile, or equivalent program management certification

Skills

Required

• Jira
• Agile delivery practices
• Technical program management
• Project management
• Executive-level reporting
• Critical thinking
• Analytical abilities
• Independent work
• Initiative

Preferred

• AI/ML delivery
• Data platform programs
• Cloud cost management (AWS)
• AI governance
• Production readiness
• SDLC frameworks
• Budget and spend reporting
• Enablement/training programs

Benefits

• Forcepoint is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range and variable compensation for this role is $131,452.00 - $158,400.00 USD annual and represents the low and high end of compensation for this position. Actual salaries are determined by various factors including, but not limited to, location, experience, job-related skills, relevant education or training and performance. The range listed is just one component of Forcepoint's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include bonuses, paid time off policy, and many region-specific benefits.