Technical Program Manager II - AI Platforms
Smartsheet is hiring a Technical Program Manager II - AI Platforms in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Smartsheet.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this role is Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include LLM, MCP and Agent Systems.
- Level classifies it as a mid-level role.
- Level lists 88 other open roles at Smartsheet.
- The role was posted in the last few days.
AI in this role
Manages shared AI platform foundations and developer experiences for LLM and agent systems.
For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day.
As the Technical Program Manager for AI Platform, you’ll turn our internal AI components and platform foundations into golden paths for the Product & Tech teams shipping AI experiences to customers. You’ll align roadmaps on shared components, establish clear owners, and make platform leverage visible through metrics and reporting.
You Will
- Own the shared-foundations program. Maintain the view of components that multiple feature teams need (agent handoff, identity, context, memory, governance, and more). Drive a single accountable owner, clear roles, and decision dates for each, overlaying team roadmaps without replacing them.
- Drive cross-team decisions to closure. Frame the decisions that unblock architecture, sequence product, UX, and engineering inputs, and run working sessions with named owners and dated action items.
- Scale an innersource model. Partner with engineering to establish a contribution-based approach for shared AI components: versioned templates, reference implementations, and docs that anyone can improve through review, with clear guidelines, release processes, and safe staged rollout.
- Report on platform scorecard. Define metrics that capture ecosystem leverage, adoption, quality, and team velocity. Set baselines and targets, secure instrumentation, and bring the results into leadership and stakeholder reporting.
- Reduce duplication. Identify capabilities built in multiple places and drive consolidation/unification, tracking those migration plans across teams.
- Partner on governance. Work with security, identity, audit, and legal teams to continually iterate and track responsible AI requirements within the platform.
- Communicate clearly. Write decision-first updates tailored to leaders and project stakeholders.
You Have
- 2-4 years of technical program management on platform, infrastructure, or developer-experience programs spanning many teams and timezones.
- Fluency in LLM & agent systems: orchestration, tool use, MCP, memory, context, evals.
- Experience defining platform or developer metrics: baselines, targets, instrumentation, and adoption measures. You’ve made invisible infrastructure work visible to leadership.
- Experience enabling shared components through SDK-style or innersource models, including versioning and release management.
- Proven ability to lead without authority across engineering, product, UX, and security.
- Strong planning discipline: dependency mapping, risk tracking, capacity awareness.
- Excellent written communication, especially decision memos and executive reporting.
- Legally eligible and available to work a hybrid schedule in BLR office.
- Fluency in English is required.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with agent interoperability protocols and data platform governance tooling.
- Experience consolidating internal systems and managing build/buy/adopt decisions.
- Familiarity with AI governance, agent identity, auditing, and compliance.
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, GitLab, and work-management tools at scale.
Get to Know Us:
At Smartsheet, your ideas are heard, your potential is supported, and your contributions have real impact. You’ll have the freedom to explore, push boundaries, and grow beyond your role. We welcome diverse perspectives and nontraditional paths—because we know that impact comes from individuals who care deeply and challenge thoughtfully. When you’re doing work that stretches you, excites you, and connects you to something bigger, that’s magic at work. Let’s build what’s next, together.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Smartsheet is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment with the best employees. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants in accordance with applicable laws in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Costa Rica, Japan, Bulgaria, India, and Singapore. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
If there are preparations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please let us know.
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How we rate this
Technical Program Manager II - AI Platforms at Smartsheet rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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- How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
- How do you think about the risk of an AI system in this kind of role failing silently?
- Tell me about a project where technical program management was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where ai platforms was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where developer experience was part of your work. What did you do?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: AI agents, AI Safety, Technical Program Management, AI Platforms, and Developer Experience. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
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- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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