Principal Technical Program Manager - AI

Job Description

Reporting to the VP of AI for Motorola Solutions, the Principal Technical Program Manager will be a critical, high-impact leader who thrives on turning highly ambiguous concepts into enterprise-scale AI products and solutions. They will be responsible for driving the strategy and measurable success of our core Artificial Intelligence efforts. This role is pivotal in managing the lifecycle and adoption of central AI models and foundational AI infrastructure built by our organization and consumed by downstream product teams for their features. This includes building enterprise-scale cloud and edge AI platforms, ensuring that our AI investments translate into quantifiable, improved customer outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

The Principal TPM will own the strategy, definition, and execution of programs across the following core areas:

• End-to-End AI Feature Delivery: Drive and coordinate efforts across the central AI organization and all dependent product teams to ensure the seamless, end-to-end delivery of AI features and products that demonstrably deliver value for our end customers.

• AI Impact Tracker & Baseline: Work across various product teams to define and implement ways to establish and measure a systemic link AI model performance and customer outcomes. This includes baselining current customer impact and owning the program to drive measurable, continuous improvement in AI effectiveness.

• AI for Developer Practices: Drive strategic programs to integrate AI/ML into our internal software development lifecycle, tracking adoption, evangelizing best practices, and reporting on the impact of these tools on engineering velocity and quality.

• Organizational Performance Management: Design, implement, and maintain a high-value, executive-facing dashboard that tracks all key AI impact metrics, development efficiency metrics, and overall organizational goals. Managing the data fidelity and reporting accuracy is a core responsibility.

• Cross-Functional Alignment & Impact Communication: Own the organizational mechanism for driving transparency and alignment with partner product teams. This includes regularly presenting the status of core AI metrics, communicating strategic research initiatives to move those metrics, tracking progress, and quantifying the actual impact delivered to stakeholders and customers.

• Emergent Strategic Initiatives: Provide immediate program management and definition for critical projects. This is a dynamic responsibility that may involve:

  • Bringing initial definition to highly ambiguous product concepts.

  • Conducting early-stage customer/partner discovery.

  • Ensuring these initiatives are properly prioritized, staffed, and smoothly transitioned to a dedicated Product Manager (PdM) once scoped.

Qualifications & Experience

• 10+ years of technical program management experience, with significant time spent leading complex, cross-functional programs in AI/ML research and platforms.

• Technical Acumen: Deep understanding of AI and Machine learning, Machine Learning lifecycle (MLOps), data platforms, and the challenges of building and deploying central, reusable AI infrastructure and models. A background in computer vision and/or voice technologies is a significant plus..

• Ability to engage in technical discussions with engineering teams, understand key concepts and provide guidance and support

• Metrics Expertise: Proven experience defining and implementing metrics frameworks (KPIs, OKRs) to measure the success of core technology platforms and drive organizational change and accountability.

• Strong analytical skills, with experience working with AI performance metrics (e.g. Precision/Recall), real-time video processing, and inference optimization.

• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to operate at a Principal level, influence senior leaders across organizations, drive consensus, and communicate complex technical and strategic concepts clearly and concisely.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to present ideas, roadmap elements, and business cases to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Customer-focused with a track record of building strong relationships and understanding customer needs

• Domain Knowledge: Experience in public safety, security-focused software (e.g., video security, evidence management), mission-critical systems, or emergency communications is a plus.

• Pathfinding: Experience bringing initial definition to "highly ambiguous" product concepts and conducting early-stage discovery for emergent initiatives.

Target Base Salary Range: 160,000 - 220,000 USDConsistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.

Basic Requirements

• 10+ years of technical program management experience

Travel Requirements

Relocation Provided

Position Type

Referral Payment Plan

Our U.S. Benefits include:

• Incentive Bonus Plans

• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

• 401K with Company Match

• 10 Paid Holidays

• Generous Paid Time Off Packages

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Paid Parental & Family Leave

• and more!

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.

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