Technical Program Manager, Government
LiltAbout the role
About Us
LILT is the leading AI solution for enterprise translations. Our stack made up of our Contextual AI Engine, Connector APIs, and Human Adaptive Feedback enables global organizations to adopt a true AI translation strategy, focusing on business outcomes instead of outputs. With LILT, innovative, category-defining organizations like Intel, ASICS, WalkMe, and Canva are using AI technology to deliver multilingual, digital customer experiences at scale.
While our core AI technology might share similarities with ChatGPT and Google Translate, it's what we do with it that makes LILT truly revolutionary. Our patented Contextual AI Engine goes beyond basic translations, understanding the nuance of our customer's content and target audience to deliver hyper-accurate, business-focused results. Our connector-first approach seamlessly integrates with our customer's existing workflows, and our human-adapted feedback loop ensures continuous improvement, making LILT a constantly evolving AI partner for your global ambitions.
The Government Team at LILT
LILT is expanding its US public sector offering to serve mission-focused analysts and linguists with the most cutting-edge translation technology. LILT’s government team provides a fast, multilingual, high-quality AI translation platform to United States and allied government customers. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on the future of LILT's AI platform and our customers.
As a key member of our team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of LILT's public sector business. Your expertise in engineering, program management, and linguistics will be instrumental in driving the development of innovative solutions for a wide range of government customers.
Where You’ll Work
Get the best of both worlds at LILT! Dive into dynamic in-office energy 2 days a week, sparking creativity and forging bonds with your awesome team. Then, seamlessly shift gears and crush your to-do list from the comfort of your home base for the rest of the week. It's the perfect harmony of productivity and personal freedom. Want a peek inside? Visit our Careers page!
This position is based out of the Washington D.C. metropolitan area where you will start as fully remote and then transition to hybrid once an office is opened.
Authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment.
Candidates with active or recent TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph (and can satisfy other security-related requirements) are preferred. Candidates without this security clearance must be able to apply for and maintain TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.
What You’ll Do
We have an opening for a Technical Program Manager to support LILT’s government team focusing on US Government customers such as the military and national security. As a Technical Program Manager, you will work with technical and senior leadership across the program to ensure our government offering meets the highest technical standards.
This position is based out of the Washington D.C. metro area where you will start as fully remote and then transition to hybrid once an office is opened. Moderate travel to customer sites in the region is required.
Key Responsibilities:
Define and implement technical roadmaps aligned with customer use cases
Develop comprehensive roadmaps and manage multiple tasks with varying priorities
Specify and implement provisioning, management, and monitoring solutions tailored to unique security and cyber requirements of diverse government customers
Oversee the entire lifecycle of these solutions, from initial technical program review to installation, deployment, and expanded usage
Propose and champion enhancements to the LILT product roadmap that enhance government user utility and satisfaction
Serve as the primary point of contact for government customers, collaborating with external teams, partners, and subcontractors to identify and mitigate programmatic risks, ensuring the achievement of established goals
Communicate effectively with executive management, providing clear and concise updates on project plans, status, and critical issues, both verbally and in writing
Timely escalate urgent issues and drive their resolution
Drive project execution, develop project plans, make informed technical trade-offs, manage risk, track, and report on status both internally and externally, and resolve blocking issues
Collaborate closely with partner organizations, including government
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