Job Description
Technical Program Manager | AI Exp Added Advantage | Pune or Hyderabad
Cornerstone is seeking a Technical Program Manager to support the delivery of our AI product initiatives. This role sits at the intersection of engineering execution and product coordination, helping ensure that cross-functional programs are well-organized, clearly communicated, and delivered with quality and on schedule.
You will work closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Design to coordinate planning, track progress, and help remove blockers across a defined product area. You are organized, proactive, and comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where requirements evolve and collaboration is constant.
This role sits within a global organization and requires strong cross-functional partnership across engineering, go-to-market, and operations teams.
In this role you will...
- Manage program delivery for product initiatives coordinating planning, tracking milestones, and helping teams stay aligned from kickoff through launch.
- Facilitate cross-functional coordination across Engineering, Product, Design, and QA, ensuring dependencies are visible and risks are flagged early.
- Maintain program-level roadmaps, delivery timelines, and status updates, keeping stakeholders informed and work moving forward.
- Partner with engineering and product leads to understand technical requirements and surface anything that could impact delivery timelines.
- Track program health using standard metrics sprint velocity, milestone attainment, open risks and communicate status clearly to the team and stakeholders.
- Facilitate agile ceremonies including sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives, helping teams operate efficiently and continuously improve.
- Support coordination of experimentation programs (A/B tests, phased rollouts) in partnership with Product and Engineering teams.
- Help define and execute release readiness checklists, including QA sign-off, compliance checkpoints, and go-live criteria.
- Track third-party and vendor dependencies that intersect with program timelines and flag issues proactively.
- Contribute to post-launch retrospectives and help teams apply learnings to future delivery cycles.
You've got what it takes if you have...
- 4+ years of Technical Program Management or project leadership experience in a SaaS or software engineering environment.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional programs across engineering, product, and design teams in an agile environment.
- Enough technical fluency to follow engineering conversations, ask good questions, and communicate technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.
- Solid understanding of agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and program management fundamentals including planning, risk tracking, and dependency management.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills you can translate complex information into clear, concise updates for a range of audiences.
- Experience working with distributed teams across time zones.
- A data-driven mindset with the ability to track and report on program metrics in a meaningful way.
- Strong organizational skills and a bias toward action you follow through, close loops, and keep things moving.
Extra dose of awesome if you have...
- Experience delivering programs that involve generative AI, LLM integration, or intelligent automation within enterprise SaaS products.
- Familiarity with MLOps tooling, model evaluation frameworks, or AI observability practices.
- Background in HR technology, learning & development platforms, or talent management systems.
- Prior knowledge of the Cornerstone platform and ecosystem.
- PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, or equivalent program management certification.
Compensation : 25L to 28L Base + 10% Bonus ( YTD )
Job Classification
Industry: Software Product
Functional Area / Department: Project & Program Management
Role Category: Technology / IT
Role: Program Manager - Technology / IT
Employement Type: Full time
Contact Details:
Company: Cornerstone
Location(s): Hyderabad
Keyskills:
Program Management
program manager
Project Planning
Ai Solutions
Artificial Intelligence
Technical Program Management