Technical Product Manager, China at IDG in US

Job description

• We are bringing IDC Quanta — our production enterprise AI platform — into China: connected to China-approved LLMs, running on compliant cloud infrastructure, and operating safely inside a fast-moving regulatory environment. This is a deployment engagement, not a rebuild of the product itself. The Technical Project Manager is IDC's on-the-ground owner in Beijing. You'll run the delivery engine — ICP filing, cloud provisioning, MLPS 2.0 and PIPL compliance, model evaluation logistics, and any implementation vendor's day-to-day work — and make sure nothing that matters gets lost in translation between Beijing and the US steering committee.
• You'll deliver this jointly with the Head of AI & Automation, China, who co-owns delivery execution and represents the program to local IDC leadership, and with a third-party implementation vendor engaged to execute the sprint-by-sprint build-out (cloud provisioning, model integration, RAG architecture, and production deployment). You are the connective tissue between the vendor's day-to-day execution, the VP's local oversight, and the US steering committee.
• ICP filing in-flight or approved with no blocking issues by the Week 9 gate. A production-ready China cloud environment — BYOK, VPC isolation, SIEM logging — validated before Sprint 4 go-live. Model evaluation results the US side can actually trust, because the threshold was set before testing began. A steering committee that never finds out about a HIGH-rated risk after the fact.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end delivery of the Pre-Sprint through Sprint 4 plan: cloud VPC provisioning, IDC Quanta test instance stand-up, model evaluation logistics, RAG architecture build-out, and production deployment — on schedule for the Week 12 first-capability target and Week 22 go-live.
• Manage the ICP (Internet Content Provider) filing end-to-end — initiate immediately on program kickoff, engage a qualified filing agent, and keep the 4–8 week process moving without becoming the thing that blocks Week 9.
• Own the MLPS 2.0 gap assessment and PIPL compliance review for the Quanta China deployment, and document the certification level required against current posture.
• Provision and configure China cloud infrastructure (Alibaba Cloud primary, AWS China as fallback) — VPC isolation, BYOK encryption with keys held outside China, and government disclosure notification clauses in every cloud contract.
• Run parallel model evaluation (DeepSeek, Qwen, with Kimi/GLM/Hunyuan/ERNIE as fallback) against the pass/fail quality threshold defined jointly with the US Technical Product Owner.
• Document and maintain the External China-Protected RAG architecture, the identity federation design, and the MCP server build-out — confirming none of it requires touching Quanta's core codebase.
• Chair local steering committee touchpoints, prepare status decks, and escalate any new HIGH-rated risk within 24 hours to the China Country Lead and the US steering committee representative. Own weekly status reporting and the Week 9 decision memo inputs from the China side: risk register, deployment readiness, and remediation plans for any red-rated criterion.
• Coordinate with IDC's legal team and outside counsel on the PRC regulatory opinion, and support export control review with a clean, API-calls-only test structure.

Requirements

• What You Bring
• Ability to operate comfortably across both IDC's China operations and its US steering committee.
• 10+ years in technology implementation, including 5+ years leading cross-border China deployments.
• Hands-on ICP filing experience (at least one prior successful filing) and working knowledge of MLPS 2.0.
• Prior budget responsibility exceeding $1M USD on a comparable engagement.
• Hands-on experience with Alibaba Cloud or AWS China (Sinnet), including VPC isolation, network segmentation, and BYOK encryption.
• Bilingual in Mandarin and English
• Location: West Coast
• Experience integrating enterprise platforms with China-approved LLM APIs (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM, Hunyuan, ERNIE, or comparable).
• Familiarity with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures designed to prevent raw data transmission to LLM providers.
• PIPL, PRC data-security, and cross-border data-transfer assessment experience, including coordination with outside legal counsel.

Skills

Required

• Bilingual in Mandarin and English

Benefits

• 15 vacation days (prorated based on start date)
• 12 company-paid holidays
• 6 paid sick days (prorated based on start date; may vary by state)
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 2 floating holidays (prorated based on start date)
• 1 volunteer day
• 401(k) company match (IDC matches 3% on the first 6% of employee contributions)
• Company-paid short-term disability
• Company-paid life insurance
• Company-paid parental leave
• At IDC, we are committed to fair and equitable pay practices. Employees are compensated equitably for their work, aligned with their skills and experience. Salary and incentive structures are determined through a rigorous process that considers experience, education, certifications, role-specific requirements, internal equity, and verified U.S. market data from an independent third-party partner.
• The expected total annual compensation, depending on location and experience, is between $140,000 – $213,000 , inclusive of base salary and variable compensation.
• If this role relocates to a different country, the salary range will be updated to reflect that country's range, rather than a currency conversion of the original range.