Odyssey builds, secures and integrates capabilities and technologies to meet tomorrow’s mission requirements. We enhance operational readiness through comprehensive program support. Backed by a16z, General Catalyst and GV.
About the role
Run data plans with loose requirements from Research. Turn fuzzy, disparate data requests into scoped, sequenced acquisition plans with quality bars, timelines, and clear data parameters. Manage a multitude of vendors across verticals and data types, maintaining relationships and negotiating commercial terms favorable to Odyssey.
What they're looking for
- The right person thinks in processes, has strong opinions, and can hold both people (internal and external) and plans accountable
- 5+ years of program or product management at a technical company, with at least two of those years in an AI, ML, or data-intensive context
- You can read ML papers without flinching, you don't need to derive the maths, but you understand what the research aims to prove and what data would support it
- Working knowledge of SQL and basic data analysis. You can pull your own numbers when needed
- Real experience negotiating with external vendors and driving down costs
- You can run a tight stand-up, keep clean docs, and finish things
More about this role
Odyssey is an AI lab pioneering general world models: causal, multimodal systems that learn to predict and interact with the world over long horizons. This foundational technology promises to revolutionize robotics, science, healthcare, education, gaming, defense, and beyond.
Odyssey’s founders previously pioneered the most complex application of physical AI: self-driving cars. They’ve now brought together a world-class research team from DeepMind, Tesla, Waymo, Meta, Apple, and Wayve, who have made significant contributions to language models (DeepMind Gemini), video models (DeepMind Veo), world models (Wayve GAIA), and autonomous systems (Tesla FSD).
Odyssey has raised significant venture capital from GV, Amazon, AMD, EQT, NVIDIA, Natural Capital, In-Q-Tel, Elad Gil, Jeff Dean, Guillermo Rauch, Garry Tan, Kyle Vogt, and researchers from OpenAI, DeepMind, MSL, Recursive, and Thinking Machines.
The Data Program Manager is the connective tissue between research, vendors and the data flywheel. You are responsible for understanding our data needs by being deep in the frontier research space for multi-model methodologies and arxiv papers. You are responsible for presenting a credible...
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