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# Technical Program Manager, Strategy & Ops at Brain Co.

- **Company:** Brain Co.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-11-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/brainco/5a6a73fd-8b2b-41ab-af35-f0827c004599

## Job description

## Our Mission

Rebuild how the world works, to make institutions work better for the people they serve.

About Brain Co. Brain Co. builds AI-native operating systems for large, regulated institutions. Each system is built for a specific industry, powered by agents that push real workflows forward. Underneath it all is Atlas, our proprietary platform that keeps customers in control, secure by design, and never locked into one model.

## Why Now

Brain Co. is entering its next phase of production deployments on a national scale with an elite team built from Palantir, Google, Meta, and Nvidia, and a growing footprint across government, insurance, health, and financial services. Joining now means shaping both the company and a new category of applied AI. Every project here ships to production and is expected to create measurable customer value and impact. You'll work alongside exceptional peers on some of the hardest problems in applied AI. It’s the kind of work you'll still be proud of in ten years from now.

## About The Role

As a Technical Program Manager, Strategy & Ops, you’ll be responsible to deliver technical, business, and organizational programs that shape how Brain Co. builds, operates, and scales. Your scope will span multiple programs and evolve with our priorities, giving you the opportunity to influence operations at the company level.

## What You'll Work On

- Define and deliver high-impact programs: Establish the business outcome, goals, scope, success criteria, and metrics for engineering and operational initiatives. Own execution from problem definition through delivery and handoff.
- Drive cross-functional execution: Partner with Engineering, Product, Design, Finance, GTM, and other teams to align priorities, clarify ownership, resolve dependencies, and make decisions that unblock delivery.
- Improve company-wide execution: Give leadership a clear view of progress, risks, and resource needs. Use that information to address recurring bottlenecks and improve delivery through better tools and lightweight processes
- Help build the TPM function: Partner with TPM and engineering leadership to define where TPMs engage, how programs are run, and when work is ready for handoff. Contribute to shared practices, hiring, and onboarding as the team grows.

## What We’re Looking For

## Experience

- 5+ years of experience in technical program management or a related engineering or operations role.
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- A track record of delivering complex technical programs from problem definition through execution and handoff.
- Experience aligning multidisciplinary teams and partners across time zones, influencing senior leadership, and building data-driven program health mechanisms that leaders use to make decisions.

## Skills & Attributes

- High agency, ownership, and a bias for action: You identify what needs to happen, take responsibility, and follow through autonomously.
- Comfort with ambiguity and competing priorities: You establish structure and direction where none exist, manage multiple programs, and make clear tradeoffs as business needs change.
- Cross-functional leadership: You build productive partnerships, influence without authority, resolve unclear ownership, establish trust, and drive decisions that unblock delivery.
- Strong analytical and program management judgment: You connect technical and business considerations, define clear goals and success criteria, and use data to guide execution.
- Sustainable improvements: Leave teams with tools, processes, and clear ownership they can maintain after handoff.
- Excellent written and verbal communication: You communicate effectively with engineers, executive stakeholders, and non-technical partners.
- AI fluency and curiosity: You regularly use AI tools to plan, track, and communicate programs, and actively explore ways AI can improve operations.

## Nice to Have

- Experience in a high-growth technology company with evolving priorities and operating models.
- Experience with AI/ML operations, including data labeling workflows and coordination with downstream teams and external partners.

## Why Join Us

- Drive strategy and execution for an applied AI company tackling the world’s most consequential challenges.
- Work directly with a world-class leadership team and investors.
- Accelerate your career in a high-growth environment where ownership is based on impact, not tenure.
- Thrive in a culture built on speed, curiosity, and impact.

## Benefits

- Competitive salary
- Medical, Dental, and Vision (100% Coverage)
- Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
- 401(k)
- Daily Lunches
- Commuter Benefits
- Unlimited PTO

## About Brain Co.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Brain Co. builds applied AI platforms and applications that automate complex, manual workflows for the world’s most important institutions, turning permitting, insurance, supply chain, and patient-care processes from months-long bottlenecks into minutes-long transactions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (also offices in the United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and Spain)
- **Founded**: 2024 (founding conversation in February 2024; public launch in 2025)
- **Founders**: Jared Kushner, Dan Ashton (CEO), Elad Gil, Dr. Luis Videgaray, Eric Wu, Mircea Pasoi, Revant Kapoor

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Artificial intelligence, government technology, healthcare, insurance, energy, hospitality, supply chain logistics
- **Target customers**: Global 2000 enterprises, federal/state governments, large healthcare systems, insurance carriers (B2B / Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Empower the world’s most important institutions to create an abundant AI future” and “reinvent the broken processes that hold governments and institutions back.”

## Products & Services
- **Permitting**: Automates construction and other permitting workflows, cutting the process from months to minutes (claims 99% faster, $375M+ unlocked annually). SaaS / AI workflow platform.
- **Specialty Insurance**: Cuts complex underwriting and adjusting workflows from hours to minutes. AI-powered decision engine.
- **Supply Chain**: Optimizes end-to-end supply chain operations, delivering 30% lower cost, 99% reliability, and mitigating $100M+ in lost revenue. Integrated AI platform.
- **Patient Pathways**: Automates patient care-path management, returning patients to optimal care faster. Healthcare AI application.
- **General AI Platform**: An underlying platform that automatically incorporates advances in foundation models, enabling applications to stay current without traditional re-development.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company; Series A at $30M raised)
- **Key Metric**: $30 million total funding (Series A, led by Elad Gil and Affinity Partners, announced October 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
  - Lead investors: Elad Gil (Gil Capital), Affinity Partners
  - Strategic partner: OpenAI
  - Angel investors include Ali Ghodsi (CEO Databricks), Andrej Karpathy, Aravind Srinivas (CEO Perplexity), Brian Armstrong (CEO Coinbase), Kevin Weil (CPO OpenAI), Reid Hoffman, Patrick Collison (CEO Stripe), Sarah Guo (Conviction), and many more.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 73 employees (LinkedIn, June 2026), monthly growth of +20.2%, quarterly job posting growth +47.4%
  - 10+ Global 2000 customers and multiple government engagements
  - $375M+ annual value unlocked in permitting alone; $100M+ supply chain revenue loss mitigated
  - Strategic partnership with OpenAI for model access and co-innovation
  - Engineering talent sourced from Stripe, Palantir, Amazon, Adobe, Roblox, and Alchemy

## Competitive Advantages
- **Outcome-based pricing**: Revenue model tied to client results, not software licenses – clients pay based on value delivered.
- **Production deployment, not pilots**: Every engagement begins with a value case; solutions go straight into production.
- **Domain-expertise embedded**: Subject matter experts in each vertical (government, insurance, healthcare) work alongside AI engineers to build around specific rules, regulations, and workflows.
- **Future-proof AI**: Applications automatically incorporate new capabilities from foundation models as they are released, avoiding obsolescence.
- **Enterprise-grade security**: SOC 2 and HIPAA-ready infrastructure with hallucination controls and guardrails.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the platform across additional government and enterprise verticals (e.g., energy, hospitality)
- Deepen the partnership with OpenAI to rapidly leverage newest model capabilities
- Expand headcount (28 active job postings, especially in AI engineering, infrastructure, security, and deployment)
- Extend presence in the Middle East (Qatar, UAE) and Europe (UK, Spain)
- Continue building a new software-development paradigm where applications auto-update with AI advances

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “World-class talent built to deliver applied AI in production.” The team includes engineers from Tesla, NVIDIA, DeepMind, and top tech companies. Emphasis on solving hard, high-impact problems for the largest institutions.
- **Remote/hybrid/office**: Not explicitly stated, but headquarters in San Francisco with distributed teams in UAE, UK, and Spain. Likely a hybrid or office-first model given the nature of client engagements.
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**:
  - Outcome-driven work: every project tied to measurable value cases
  - Direct partnership with OpenAI and access to cutting-edge models
  - High-caliber co-founders (Kushner, Gil, Videgaray, Wu) and leadership (Marne Levine, former COO Instagram/Meta)
  - Rapidly growing (~73 people, +20% monthly headcount growth) – offers early-stage ownership
  - Roles span AI platform engineering, agentic systems, infrastructure, security, and deployment consulting

## Sources
1. [brain.co](https://brain.co/) – Main site overview
2. [brain.co](https://brain.co/blog/introducing-brain-co-9gk9a) – Introducing Brain Co. blog post (funding, founders, investors, customers)
3. [braincompany.ai](https://braincompany.ai/about) – About page (team, approach, security)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/brainco-ai/jobs) – LinkedIn company page (headcount, growth, job postings, talent sources)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/brainco/) – Careers page (open positions)

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