Technical Program Manager San Francisco

Position: Technical Program Manager San Francisco + 5
# Technical Program Manager## Category Product## Available in
* San Francisco
* London* Beijing
* Shanghai* Shenzhen
* Qingdao## About Phinomenon Phinomenon is built by browser and cloud veterans: our founders are behind FydeOS (a Chromium-based OS trusted by millions) and Qing Cloud (one of China's earliest API-first IaaS platforms, founded in 2012). Fresh off a healthy, eight-figure Series A raise, we have the runway to dream big without panicking about next week's payroll. With folks working from San Francisco, London, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, we are proudly global and friendly to your time zone, with overlapping hours so we can all actually talk.

We ship fast and ship hard, but burnout is so last decade: we bake in wellness stipends, mandatory recharge days and flexible schedules, because great code comes from healthy lives. No timecards, no surveillance software, no weekend team-building. We'd rather hand you the best tools money can buy (Claude Max, ChatGPT Business and Cursor Ultra come standard) and trust you with them.

We don't fetishise years of experience, degrees or big-tech logos, and fresh graduates are more than welcome: show us what you have built and how you think. If you want to build the nextgen browser that actually, you know, gets you, while still enjoying your evenings and maintaining upright posture, welcome home.## About the Role As our Technical Program Manager at Phinomenon, you'll be part product manager, part program conductor: the person who holds the whole picture.

You'll live inside our issue tracker and know every workstream, what's shipping, who's on it, what's blocked, and what it means for the release train. You'll orchestrate our weekly release cadence and adjust it when reality disagrees with the plan. And you'll look outward too, studying competitors and the fast-moving AI-browser landscape and turning that research into strategy directly with the founder.

This is a role for someone who is organized to a fault, curious without limits, and diplomatically effective in every direction, with engineers, designers, and executives alike.## Responsibilities
* Own the operating picture: every issue, owner, dependency, and deadline across our product lines. Nothing ships or slips without you knowing why
* Orchestrate the release train: plan scope, run the cadence, coordinate cut/test/ship, and adjust schedules when the situation demands
* Turn meetings, decisions, and scattered context into crisp specs, priorities, and tracker hygiene the team can execute against
* Unblock relentlessly: spot cross-team dependencies and risks early, and negotiate them away before they cost a release
* Research the competitive landscape (AI browsers, agents, knowledge tools) and distill it into decision-ready insight
* Partner with the founder on strategy and roadmaps: pressure-test ideas, model trade-offs, and turn direction into plans
* Define and track the metrics that tell us whether releases and features actually landed## Requirements
* A demonstrated run in product management, technical program management, or the hybrid between them at a fast-shipping software company. We care about what you ran, not how long you've had the title.
* Demonstrated ownership of a release process or delivery cadence across multiple engineering work streams
* Power-user fluency with modern trackers (Linear or equivalent); you build the system of record, not just live in it
* Enough technical depth to follow engineering discussions about browsers, AI features, and infrastructure, and to earn engineers' respect
* Sharp written communication in English;
Mandarin is a strong plus for our cross-region teams
* Strong research instincts: you form defensible views on competitors and markets, fast
* Low ego, high agency: equally comfortable writing strategy and chasing a slipped ticket at 5pm on release day## Nice to Have
* Experience at a browser, developer-tool, or AI-product company
* Prior startup experience as an early or early PM; you've built process from zero without drowning a team in it
* Familiarity with agentic AI workflows and how they change product development
* Experience working directly with founders or executive teams
* You have opinions about why most release processes fail, and receipts from fixing oneAnd should the future prove entirely too exhausting, there is a switch to disable all AI features. No offense will be taken.
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