Head of Public Sector Delivery, GenAI

Head of Public Sector Delivery, GenAI

Location: Washington DC

Scale's public sector customer base is growing rapidly and you will be a front line leader to ensure these customers become passionate, lifelong Scale partners. As the Head of Public Sector Delivery for GenAI, you will lead a team of engagement managers and technical program managers and are responsible for the delivery of AI / ML solutions for our customers. You are a player-coach, splitting your time between supervising your team and managing strategic accounts. Day to day, you will manage customer relationships, deliver AI/ML solutions, use data to refine processes, align internal resources, and triage issues across your customer set. All of this serves an ultimate goal of delivering outsized value in supporting our public sector customers' AI/ML objectives.

For your team, you are a mentor in all aspects of managing customer relationships, making sound business judgments, delivering high-quality program management, and upleveling their knowledge and technical proficiency around AI agents / LLMs. You will work individually with each of your direct reports to advance their own professional development and collectively to build a winning team.

You will:

• Lead a team of 5-8 mid-career professionals
• Manage customer relationships from the executive to the end user
• Oversee onboarding and successful implementation across your team's accounts
• Lead a cross-functional project team to exceed the customer's AI/ML objectives
• Manage the long-term health of the customer base by identifying and preempting areas of risk or concern
• Identify ways we can make customer success repeatable and solve issues for future customers
• Partner with clients to understand operational issues and advocate for their fixes with Scale engineers
• Interface cross-functionally with Scale Public Sector's engineering, product, and infrastructure teams in order to prioritize efforts that drive customer value and successful delivery
• The ability to glean insights from customer / user data to inform & refine delivery strategies & approaches
• Work directly with customer's engineering teams and end users, answering questions and addressing issues with use of our products and solutions

You have:

• An active TS/SCI clearance
• 8+ years of work experience, with experience in a customer-facing technical program management role (AI industry or government AI program preferred)
• A deep intellectual curiosity about AI and machine learning, particularly in applications that advance national security
• A technical background (education or professional experience with computer science, economics, statistics, or engineering)
• Experience leading small teams and managing multiple, complex work streams
• A strong orientation towards outcomes and a history of being scrappy when it counts
• An easygoing interpersonal style and ability to work and build relationships with a wide range of people
• Willingness to travel at least 30% of the time and eagerness to be onsite with customers

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The base salary range for this full-time position in the location of Washington DC is:

$203,000 — $254,000 USD

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About Us:

At Scale, we believe that the transition from traditional software to AI is one of the most important shifts of our time. Our mission is to make that happen faster across every industry, and our team is transforming how organizations build and deploy AI. Our products power the world's most advanced LLMs, generative models, and computer vision models. We are trusted by generative AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, government agencies like the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force, and enterprises including GM and Accenture. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.

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